I have a demo Playbook at our company.  As below, I have no idea what the 
purpose of this thing is.  You can browse the web on a smaller screne than an 
ipad, there is no video chat, no skype client and no integrated email.  Gave it 
to my wife and 6 year old daughter.  Wife: "i like the iPad better" 6 year old 
"there's no Angry Birds for it?"


 



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From: John Luth <[email protected]>
To: "A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc." 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 5:08:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] ok so who bought one...

I can see that POV on those devices.  The thing about the Playbook is I am not 
really sure of the purpose as it currently stands.  Bridge makes it effectively 
a bigger touch screen version of my BlackBerry.  That I have to have with me 
anyway to use Bridge. And which I can more quickly reply to an email or add a 
contact at this point because I've used it for so long.  

So that makes the Playbook a 7 inch touch screen internet browser.  

And to address the original question of 'from an admin's point of 
view'--there's 
not much to administer with it.  there's no BES integration.


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Art Alexion <[email protected]> wrote:

We've been testing a bunch and felt the Xoom wasn't ready to be released.
>Many of its hardware features just aren't enabled because there aren't
>drivers yet.  Rumor has it that Motorola has discontinued it already,
>deciding to focus, instead, on ruggedized tablet for factory floors and
>construction sites.
>
>The iPad is polished, but can be frustrating for IT, accostomed to
>Windows, Linux and Android, because Apple controls everything.  Apple even
>turns off remote admin features at whim.
>
>
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>On 4/21/11 4:49 PM, "John Luth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I've
>>played with iPad and Xoom a little. Both of those seem more polished
>
>
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>Art Alexion
>Systems Engineer -- Infrastructure Engineering Group
>Resources for Human Development
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