DEVICES: The tablet wars are being fought out between the usual suspects, but after somewhat lukewarm sales of its own foray into the world of mid-size devices, RIM (Blackerry maker) has poured even colder water over the idea of tablets entirely. READ MORE on Bloomberg.
Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins doesn't see a future in tablet computing, perhaps a sign the company will abandon a follow-up to its PlayBook device.
"In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," Heins says in an interview this week at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles.
Heins is rethinking whether to offer larger devices even as the company pushes ahead with fresh smartphones built on the new BlackBerry 10 platform to engineer a sales recovery.
Launched in 2011, the PlayBook was panned by critics for debuting without built-in e-mail, delivering the tablet a near-fatal blow.
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