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.