Amateur hour came and went

Back in the early days of 2011, I confidently predicted that iPad would absolutely crush the tablet market. I know, went out on a limb. I semi-confidently predicted that the Blackberry Playbook would be the only other legit tablet; that all Android tablets would be crap and not worth the money.

Got that half right, I suppose.

We all know the sordid Playbook story. No email, no apps, sloppy response, poor distribution, Android pushed it aside. It was a long, gruesome story.

TechCrunch, however, says the v2.0 software update makes the Playbook a solid tablet and they give it a positive review. They're probably right, though, when they say it may be too late.

When RIM first launched the BlackBerry PlayBook last spring, we were all rather shocked to find that RIM’s stand-out core services — secure messaging and productivity related apps like calendar and contacts — were… absent. The company promised an update to fix it, and after eight months said update has finally been unveiled here at CES.

Truth be told, the new PlayBook OS is much better than expected, but I guess you start to set the bar low when the first time around was so disappointing. We got a chance to go hands-on with the new system here at CES, and recorded a video just for you fine readers.

The only problem is that this is exactly what PlayBook 1.0 should have been.