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BlackBerry decides to pull the life support plug on PlayBook tablets, will no longer update them to BB10

article published on 29 June, 2013

Despite promising to update their PlayBook tablet to the new BB10 operating system in 2013, BlackBerry has decided against the idea, citing performance issues. CEO Thorstein Heins revealed the information yesterday during the company's fiscal Q1 2014 earnings report. The company's stock cratered 28 percent after the report thanks to an unexpected loss and poor guidance for earnings moving forward. ... [ read the full article ]

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Bigwillyz
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_ 		29. June 2013 @ 21:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Screw BlackBerry, they charge a bunch of money for their tablet, people invest their hard earned money into it and they drop support. The Playbook is a P.O.S. device by a P.O.S. company. You want to bend your customers over, then you deserve to get the same. I hope their company continues to go under, thanks for the couple hundred dollar screw scumbags.
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robertmro
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_ 		5. July 2013 @ 20:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Very Sad.
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