Healthcare Industry: Blackberry Playbook vs Apple iPad

The iPad will have been on the market for about a year when the Blackberry Playbook is released early next year, but has it really affected the healthcare industry that largely. There is no dub there are many doctors that use the iPad to aid them in demonstrating content to their patients, but for the most part the iPad has not really made its ways into hospitals all over the cow try or been the world.

On the other hand, the Blackberry Playbook might live up the healthcare industry's approval. They have worked largely with Blackberry smart phones, so the Playbook tablet may be more widely accepted.


CEO and President Mark Willnerd of TouMetis, showed some medical apps for PlayBook for example app for orthopedic surgeons, where they can design, for example, new knee replacements for patients right from a BlackBerry or from the PlayBook. 
Also, RIM indicated remote EMR access as a potential use case for PlayBooks in the medical field; “For example, a medical records application can attach image files to a patient’s medical record, with the option to open or preview the record, or view the list of available images before it is downloaded to the BlackBerry smartphone.” 

As stated above, since many healthcare related companies are using Blackberry servers, networks, and smartphone devices, I think it would be valid to say the the Playbook would be quite the affordable way to expand their technologies whiteout having to start anew.

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5 Apps We Want for the Blackberry Playbook:

The Blackberry Playbook may have a a bit too brag about when it comes to hardware, despite its smaller screen, but when you compare it to the Apple iPad, it has essentially no applications, with only 3 announced for release date. We have come up with a list of 5 applications that we want and think we will see on or soon after the early 2011 release of the Playbook.


5) LogMeIn: Ignition - This is a tool that lets you control your specified computer or computers from anywhere in the world. No doubt that we will see this for the Blackberry Playbook though for a hefty price of at least $29.99

 4) Dropbox - RIM demonstrated their interest in the Blackberry Playbook becoming a medium for businesses and companies to increase productivity and offer more tools, so Dropbox would ba great example. It would be great for businesses, large and small,  to share info very quickly, especially if you stock an office with 10 or 20 of these puppies!

3) Twitter - Something along the lines of Twitter for iPad. It's up to Twitter to make this or not. Nevertheless, I am sure we will get a ton of third-party Twitter apps.

2)  Netflix - Yes, we understand that the PLaybook supports the god-awful flash, but it would be nice to have a dedicated app. It makes things a lot more simple and organized.

1) Flight Control - Firemint Games have shown the mobile gaming industry that they are capable of producing great games for any platform. One of their most popular games, Flight Control, which made its debut on the iPhone has made it's way to the iPad, Nintendo DS, and even the Playstation Move. I have no doubt we will be seing at least one of their titles for the Blackberry Playbook.

Wattpad for Blackberry Playbook

It has been confirmed that the number one Blackberry eBook app, Wattpad, will be available for download upon the early 2011 release of the Blackberry Playbook. It seems that the only 3 confirmed apps for the Blackberry Playbook are ALL eBook apps. RIM needs to get their act together and decide what their primary market is for this device, because they came off as wanting it for mostly business, but all of the apps are for eBooks...

Blackberry Playbook - for business or play?

It may be called the Playbook, but the Blackberry Playbook seems to be more geared towards business. After all, Blackberries are used for the most part by business people. The Blackberry Playbook showed off its multitasking capabilities and use in workplace environments during its demo video, as well as the fact that almost all of the people in the promo were wearing suits. Bottom line is that RIM is trying to use a business oriented device to target business people and people who want it for entertainment. But there wasn't a single game or entertainment app showed during the video! Whereas the iPad is a casual entertainment device that is targeted for everybody, including businesses.

Kobo eBook app to be pre-installed on the Blackberry Playbook

Just recently, Kobo has convinced Research in Motion (RIM) to pre-install their eBook application onto the Blackberry Playbook, which will give users access to over 2 million eBooks. Nearly half of these are free. so this goes to show how RIM wants the Playbook shifted more towards entertainment than business and will definitely be competing on the market with the Apple iPad. Although the Kobo app looks nice and I would probably download it nevertheless, I hate when companies pre-load software onto any hardware I buy.  It comes off to me as spam and I usually delete all of it before even testing it out. I would much rather just download the app from the Playbook app store. What do you think?

Is the Blackberry Playbook real?

When RIM released the Blackberry Playbook afew days ago, they showed off a teaser video of the device, but not the actual device, rather just an animated demo. During the conference where the RIM CEO talked about the release, he had what seemed to be a Blackberry Playbook, but surprisingly, he never touched the screen once. The screen seemed to be lit the whole time, but that could have easily been a stick or a light of some sort. I have a hunch the Playbook hasn't even been created yet and nothing is set and done. This is definitely not good, because when people get their hands on and it ends up much slower than what the video had showed, the Playbook will get a bad reputation. I wouldn't say anything about the Playbook is certain until we see a working model of the Blackberry Playbook.

Why the Blackberry Playbook is not an iPad "Killer":

 First let me get it across that no product has ever been able to kill an iPhone, iPod, or an iPad, so let's just keep that in mind. What makes you think that this is now the device to kill the iPad? It seems that every Apple killer always fails, although the Playbook may put up a better fight. But just saying that is not really fair because it is possible for a product to beat the iPad and this wouldn't be a very interesting article- so here goes:
1) Multitasking is not a reason to get a Blackberry Playbook. Yes it is true that the iPad s lacking this, but come November multitasking will be available, along with folders and printing. So if this the main selling point, I would say that it is not a valid one. Nevertheless, the multitasking that Apple has implemented is a scaled down version, so I do give some credit to the Blackberry Playbook.
2) The App Store. This is by far the ultimate reason. Put simply, Apple has the largest App Store currently available and even Android has a long way to go to get close, and Blackberry is very far behind. Hopefully Blackberry can get some high quality apps on their store for the Playbook, but I doubt it will ever be as big as the iPad in terms of apps. apps alone put the iPad way ahead of it's competitors.
3) So the Blackberry Playbook has a camera and the iPad doesn't. This is certainly something we would have loved to see in the iPad, but there is no doubt we will see it in version 2.0 . It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Blackberry released the Playbook around the same time as the second generation iPad. Call me an Apple fanboy, but the iPad 2g will be sure to have all of the features that the Playbook has and a few more. Apple was testing the market with the iPad, to see how people would take it, and now that they know it was a success they will be working hard on the next generation. If you really need a camera on a tablet so that you can take pictures of your dog then the Blackberry Playbook is what you need (note sarcasm).
4) Flash is not what media is leaning towards. Apple has proven to us that Flash capabilities are not needed to experience the web when they showed us the capabilities of HTML5. It seems like Blackberry has taken a step backwards with this one, although many will be overjoyed to finally view flash sites and play flash games.

It may seem like we are hating on RIM's newest creation, but we actually think its pretty cool. What we are saying is that it will never be an iPad killer. Nevertheless, it's the closest any iPad competitor has come yet- dual cameras, 1Gb of RAM, a pretty sleek interface and much more make the Blackberry Playbook a definite option when purchasing your next multimedia tablet.