RIM's Playbook: The Conspiracy.....Thickens

There is no simple way to get around this. So we will just drop this
conspiracy by theorists
as to why RIM playbook seems to be faltering.

The Playbook is being slowed down because RIM is not an American company.

Even the issues that were raised from the onset, before the Playbook
was launched was a calculated and concerted effort to derail its
acceptance, The reason behind this particular conspiracy theory is
based on a couple of things.

The Apple effect
This was a company that started out as an underdog because it was
pitched against the 90's monster Microsoft. People generally tend to
have a soft spot for the underdog and this helped build up a
followership that is now famed for its cult-like status.
It is no longer an underdog but rather than be seen as a monster, it
is being regarded as something that every one joined hands to make.
That is, from its underdog status we made it become numero uno.

If RIM's Playbook was pitted against Microsoft, it may have fared better.

So the first thing was that its major competition was the big apple
and not Microsoft.

The second issue had to do with its humongously successful corporate
app; the Balck Berry coupled with the fact that they were going to use
this to levearage on the Playbook's early adoption.

The American tech world is used to having all the major players and at
times all the players in a particular field coming from within the
shores of America. Just look across the landscape of the ICT industry
and you can go as far as seeing only American companies in the top
five and in some cases, they occupy the top ten if not the whole
industry. The American tech world would like to keep it that way.

This was not the case with RIM that created a power app that served a
market where there was practically no one competing with their
Blackberry. They were not going to allow them to come into the tab
world and over run.

In retrospect, the strategy of 'hooking' the Playbook with the
Balckberry can be understood. It would compel Blackberry users not to
see it as a case of either-or. And if half the Blackberry users would
go for it i.e even if half of that half would go for it, the Playbook
would have been a success at launch and would have enough momentum to
turn the tab world on its head.

Momentum
The first thing was to break that momentum from inception. So the
operative word was attack, attack, attack. And attack they did. From
the shape and size to the fact that the owner's school is just a stone
throw from his company. And everybody joined in from the blogger to
communication companies who would have otherwise just go with the flow
when it came to adopting it but they started giving reasons why there
is one delay or the other.

They got their critical mass as far as negatives were concerned and
they managed to break that early momentum which RIM wanted to build
and the rest as they say is history.

For the Playbook to get back on its feet, RIM would need to dig the
trenches and re-strategize. The would have to be bold enough to
overlook the American market. The real market is in Asia and if they
can join Europe to it, the Playbook would bypass 'their' ipad.

Innovation respects no one and they have an innovative product. They
won't have any excuse if the Playbook fails.

The Perfect e-product

This might as well be another quest for the holy grail.
Is there any such thing as the perfect e-product? Or can we look at what is available and pick one as being the perfect e-product?
Now speaking philosophy, everybody would have their own definiton of nirvina or perfection. We can only paint a picture of our own paradise. All we need do is define it from our own situation by painting a picture of what we would call 'ideal' and that would be our own perfection.
And that is basically how products are created. In the mind of its creator, it is perfect because it meets their own definition of 'ideal' based on their own experience. This is also why many products fail. Their definition of 'ideal' becomes their limitation.
This is also why many products start well and then stuttering, eventually become irrelevant. That is, they stick to their 'ideal' without allowing a critical component to come in at a critical moment.
Perfection is a canvass. If you lay singular claim to that convass, you might end up being the only one painting and appreciating that picture. But if you deliberately set out to allow your definition of perfection to be ambiguos, everybody might see it and say it's perfect because they have one way or the other been allowed to have a 'stake' or paint a stroke on that canvass called the product.
We are just talking about the philosophy of a product in product creation and in the quest for the perfect e-product. This is just a thought....maybe there will be more in our quest for the perfect e-product.

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The Xrumer: Implicit and Explicit Implication‏

The internet has gradually seeped into every facet of our loves to now become something that is like skin to us. Platforms have come and gone but each one pushed the boundaries of the internet further into our homes and lives. Today, platforms like face book and twitter, YouTube and Google have gone even further into our daily consciousness. We cannot do without the internet and the society are further become more internet dependent by the year.
The dangers inherent in this can not be quantified. It is so wide in scope that we would have to write volumes to do justice to it. But we want to look at this in terms of aspect of this danger and one aspect is intrusive applications like the Xrumer.
Simply put, the Xrumer app is fearful in scope. Which ever angle you look at this product, what the Xrumer does is to give you a clear warning as to our society becoming increasingly more internet dependent so much so that apps and products that can take advantage of this increasing dependence and abuse it.
There are people and companies who need this dependence to survive or become increasing relevant, Microsoft and Google are good cases in point. They phish and highlight the benefits of the internet but the dangers are more real than ever before.
We have now come to a stage where some fearsome tools are coming into public domain. There are tools and apps that are extremely dangerous because of there capabilities. But the only 'good' thing about them is that they are not in public domain. But governments may have the power but they don't have that absolute control over intellect and ingenuity, over what can come into the public domain.
Now the Xrumer may be based on technologies that will soon be made illegal or placed under tighter control but the implicit implication of this product is that more are in the horizon. More products that are capable of doing things that would portend danger to the public are as we speak being perfected and deployed. This are products that will even make the Xrumer look like kids play.
The problem is control.
The control of the internet is concentrated in the hands of one. This is dangerous in itself but the issue this points to is that policing the net almost becomes an impossible task. It is not practically possible now because of legal and logistic and moral implications. As Unitarian as the internet is, it still has multiple borders, boundaries and hence jurisdictions. Control is in one but jurisdiction is in various hands, this is the disaster that has already being set out when we talk of the implicit implication of apps like Xrumer. If it is banned in one place, nothing stops it from rearing its head in another.
The Xrumer program can go into areas that it’s not permitted to. The explicit implication of this is that it is a rogue program that is designed to bypass security checks and balances. Implicitly speaking, the Xrumer is a reflection and a pointer to greater dangers our internet dependency portends. The control issue does not help matters because it being viewed or weighed from a prestige/political angle rather than from the more practical economic, social and most importantly security angle.
Solution
A solution to the implicit implication of the Xrumer is to break the control of the internet. This would have far reaching but positive consequences. It will also affect our increasing internet dependency and bring it to a level where it will be just one of the driving force of our modern society rather than the driving force.
Sincerely speaking and for all practical purposes, our modern day civilization can not afford to have the kind of dependence on the internet that many are rooting for. It is dangerous as it is already and the Xrumer is just one of those apps out there that shows how dangerous it has become.
We have to sit and re-access our strategy of engagement when it comes to addressing internet abuse. We need palliatives that are far reaching than the reactionary mode we have permanently switched to; we wait till something happens before responding. There are some first punches we won't be able to withstand. This is why we need to proactively address the implicit implication of the Xrumer product. I know you won't take it lightly when we say that there are far more dangerous apps that will be coming into the public domain in the months and years to come.

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