> RIM is entering the tablet market as an underdog and will have to work hard to gain credibility and be viewed as a serious contender. Honeycomb’s incompleteness and Android’s early stumble out of the tablet starting gate have created a window of opportunity for another player to stake a position.
via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/03/android-apps-on-playbook-tablet-could-be-a-mixed-bag-for-platform.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)
I love how quickly the story has changed from “Android will soon overtake Apple in tablets just like it did with phones” to “RIM has a real shot now that Android has stumbled out of the gate”. How long before RIM becomes the stumbler, and the next loser gets lined up as the “true iPad killer?”
The press sure has ditched their favored son Android, haven’t they?
Well, we have HP’s new tablet in June, at the very least. I imagine there will be at least two other big tablets between now and then. And then maybe early next year, right about the time of the iPad 3, we’ll be hearing about Amazon’s iPad killer.
It really is the iPod all over again.
