RIMs attempt to capture tablet with its playbook faced a serious blow when RIM decided to stop manufacturing 16 GB model of the playbook. The main reason for this move is contributed to the declining sales of their tablet playbook. Even after performing some serous price cuts, playbook fails to impress the end user, as they still prefer apps over hardware and thus prefers go with either iPad or an Android tablet which features much more apps than BB Playbook.
Blackberry Playbook is the first attempt by RIM to foray itself into the huge potential tablet market. But from present situation it is definitely makes one thing clear that RIM should take some more serious steps if they want playbook to compete with other tablets. It would be very wrong of me if i say that RIM had done nothing to protect playbook. In fact they had made some good improvements in the core OS of the playbook. After this update, some quality apps which till now is available only on Android, also comes to BB Playbook. RIM ties up with Gameloft studio and gifted all the users of Playbook with two exciting full version games. But even after that BB Playbook fails to take off as far as sales are concerned.
They had also announced that they will continue to manufacture 32 GB and 64 GB models of Playbook.