When you're the one who's first to market with a game-changing device, you announce it as close to ship date as possible.
Everyone else announces their me-too products as early as possible to show they're in the game. It's been like that for years now. There are few exceptions.
All RIM announced was a roadmap, but it's an interesting one because it includes an entirely new OS and tablet platform that will eventually become the platform for all of their future mobile devices (barring any software engineering disasters). To me, that's a lot more interesting that all these manufactures who rush to market with their 7" Android 2.2 phones and call them "tablets" merely to cash in on the craze.
"All RIM announced was a roadmap"
Thats not what the CEO said. He didn't say "Announcing the PlayBook Project" or "Announcing the PlayBook Roadmap". He did't even merely say "Announcing the future of BlackBerry". He said and BlackBerry is saying "Announcing The PlayBook" and he walks out on the stage holding the supposed device.
Also, I don't think QNX is the platform. For them QNX is the OS layer. But not the platform that you develop against. This is why the dev options are HTML5 and Flash. I bet the third API will be Java based. Like we are used to from RIM.
Everyone else announces their me-too products as early as possible to show they're in the game. It's been like that for years now. There are few exceptions.
All RIM announced was a roadmap, but it's an interesting one because it includes an entirely new OS and tablet platform that will eventually become the platform for all of their future mobile devices (barring any software engineering disasters). To me, that's a lot more interesting that all these manufactures who rush to market with their 7" Android 2.2 phones and call them "tablets" merely to cash in on the craze.