{"id":5949,"date":"2011-04-19T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2011-04-19T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:21:32","slug":"blackberry-playbooks-poor-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/blackberry-playbooks-poor-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry PlayBook&#8217;s Poor First Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Morris, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/grizzlybearcafe.com\/\">Grizzly Bear Egg Cafe<\/a> podcast, and FoxNews, reviews the BlackBerry Playbook&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last week or so, several reviews have surfaced on the Playbook, and most of them seem to be negative&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">What frustrates me the most is that the user  experience doesn&#8217;t match the hardware. The PlayBook boasts a nice  rubberized design, a beautiful screen, dual high-quality speakers on the  front for stereo sound, and two nice cameras (one on the front one on  the back). It&#8217;s fast, powerful, and sturdy, but the experience is  half-baked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The operating system feels like a cross  between Palm&#8217;s Web OS and Apple&#8217;s iOS, thanks to a sprinkling of  features here and there like pinch-to-zoom, card stack, and the ability  to hold your finger down on an icon to remove or rearrange an  application.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">My viewpoint is that, overall the Playbook might have been a good first attempt before the introduction of the first generation iPad&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 But, certainly after the 2nd generation iPad&#8217;s launch, RIM will have to work extremely hard at making the Playbook a viable competitor.<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/04\/18\/blackberry-playbooks-poor-impression\/?test=faces\">BlackBerry PlayBook&#8217;s Poor First Impression<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Morris, from the Grizzly Bear Egg Cafe podcast, and FoxNews, reviews the BlackBerry Playbook&#8230; Over the last week or so, several reviews have surfaced on the Playbook, and most of them seem to be negative&#8230; What frustrates me the most is that the user experience doesn&#8217;t match the hardware. The PlayBook boasts a nice <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/blackberry-playbooks-poor-first-impression\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23,67],"tags":[916,861,787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->