BlackBerry is changing its tune regarding its PlayBook tablet running BlackBerry 10. Back in January, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins promised users the PlayBook would run BB10 in the future. Mr. Heins now says the device did not feel right with BlackBerry 10 and the company will focus on other products instead.
Here are his comments:
BlackBerry stock tanked on Friday after news of a 4 million subscriber loss for the quarter was announced. The company is now clearly in trouble and the next two quarters will be key to its future. It is no wonder they have decided against pursuing the older PlayBook. BlackBerry's future is all about the future, not the past.
Here are his comments:
“Let me also make some comments on Playbook. Our teams have spent a great deal of time and energy looking at solutions that could move the Blackberry 10 experience to Playbook. But unfortunately, I am not satisfied with the level of performance and user experience, and I made the difficult decision to stop these efforts and focus on our core hardware portfolio. We will, however, support Playbook on the existing software platforms and configurations.”
BlackBerry stock tanked on Friday after news of a 4 million subscriber loss for the quarter was announced. The company is now clearly in trouble and the next two quarters will be key to its future. It is no wonder they have decided against pursuing the older PlayBook. BlackBerry's future is all about the future, not the past.