> 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…

> Motorola will reportedly reduce orders for its Xoom tablet starting in the second quarter of 2011, and no orders are apparently scheduled past June, suggesting a Xoom successor and newer competitor to Apple’s iPad 2 is already in the works. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/22/motorola_not_planning_orders_for_ipad_competing_xoom_past_june_report.html)And so yet another tablet described by many pundits as “the first real competitor to the iPad” has flopped. More and more evidence is stacking up…

> Gold suggested that RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet could be a good fit for companies concerned about Apple’s level of support. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/158661/2011/03/ipad2_it.html#lsrc.rss_main)Yeah. A non-existant, non-shipping product that you have no idea whether or not you’ll be able to support, because you’ve never actually seen one, is a GREAT alternative to the iPad for IT departments everywhere. Good to see parts of the IT world are still scared out of its…

I’m happy that Apple seems to have had a very successful iPad 2 launch. I’m writing this on my shiny new white 32 GB WiFi-only model, and I’m loving it, so the success is much deserved. And yes, the lines yesterday were indeed long. Which, of course, means we’ll be spending the next two weeks listening to pundits congratulating themselves for having been right about their theory that Apple didn’t allow preorders in order to be sure there would be long lines. It’s a…

> There have been lines for every iPhone release. In April 2010 there were lines for the original iPad. February 2011 Verizon did there biggest sales day in history of Verizon iPhone pre-sales. But, when the the Verizon iPhone went on sale there were no lines. > > I think the choice to offer online orders at the same time as the sale date, and to have a Friday at 5:00 pm sale time is all to help ensure that there will be lines. Because those lines are the best marketing Apple…