In Pictures: Tablet flops, flubs and fluffs

Blackberry PlayBook

While extolled for its hardware, the responsive QNX operating system and snappy Web browser, RIM’s Blackberry PlayBook has gotten off to a rocky start. For example, in the second quarter of last year, the company sold just a third the expected number of devices, according to DigiTimes. And some users are frustrated with the company’s execution on the promise PlayBook showed, perhaps, they speculate, because it was rushed to market.