{"id":247,"date":"2012-01-02T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/marcos_test\/?p=247"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:39:08","slug":"blackberry-playbook-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoscarpio.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/02\/blackberry-playbook-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the BlackBerry Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"zemanta-getty-img\">\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/450611375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 59.427609% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/450611375?et=X9bDj5o9THpqEALbXPWSPw&amp;sig=M5oyvLYKN4jwoMxuH5CeVBFzQBnNQFCAmx5BPYd1dAA=\" width=\"594\" height=\"353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What separates the\u00a0<a title=\"BlackBerry PlayBook\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlackBerry_PlayBook\" rel=\"ctag:means wikipedia\">BlackBerry PlayBook<\/a>\u00a0from Apple&#8217;s iPad and other Android-based tablets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The answer lies in the operating system.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PlayBook runs on <strong>QNX<\/strong>, which is a true microkernel operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple&#8217;s iPad runs on <strong>iOS<\/strong>, which was derived from its core <strong>Mac OS X<\/strong>.  OS X was basically <strong>Darwin<\/strong> &#8211; an open-source, <strong>POSIX-compliant<\/strong> OS which was derived from Steve Jobs&#8217; founded <strong>NEXTStep<\/strong> OS (which Apple bought in 1997), <strong>BSD<\/strong>, and other free software projects.\u00a0 These are\u00a0mostly\u00a0<a title=\"Unix\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unix.org\/\" rel=\"ctag:means homepage\">UNIX-based<\/a>\u00a0derivatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\" rel=\"ctag:means homepage\">Google&#8217;s Android<\/a>\u00a0is basically\u00a0<strong>Linux<\/strong> &#8211; another UNIX variant &#8211; plus a lot of free-Java implemented codes.\u00a0 Google basically patched-up the Android OS\u00a0which they bought in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s interesting to note that UNIX, as well as most of Microsoft&#8217;s OSes like Windows, NT, and OS\/2, have huge core OS codes.\u00a0 And this is what slows them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hardware makers tried to compensate for these monolithic OSes by using faster processors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, faster processors were a bane to the battery life of these portable devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember the battery issue with\u00a0Apple&#8217;s <strong>iPhone 4GS<\/strong>?\u00a0 Apple issued a software patch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The QNX OS on\u00a0BlackBerry PlayBook is what makes the device run so fast compared to the iPad and any other Android-based tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QNX is a true micro kernel implementation of an operating system.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so ideal for embedded platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QNX is not new either.\u00a0 It has been around since the early 80s.\u00a0 The last gadget I\u00a0had messed with that runs on\u00a0QNX was the very ambitious <strong>Netpliance<\/strong> device released in 1999. \u00a0See post on my old version of my website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcoscarpio.com\/kupit2012\/gadgetry5.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given that all hardware components inside the guts\u00a0most tablets are sourced\u00a0from the same suppliers. And, given that some designs may be better than others, it&#8217;s always the OS that run the hardware that makes the most magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, I thought my 16GB\u00a0BlackBerry PlayBook &#8211; which I\u00a0had scored for $199 during their November 2011 sale &#8211;\u00a0would\u00a0be relegated to the junk bin in my closet\u00a0after only a few weeks of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, no, no.&nbsp; Hands down, it&#8217;s&nbsp;way much better than&nbsp;Apple&#8217;s iPad or any other Android-based tablet out there in the market today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I intend to get a second one &#8211; the 32GB this time while it&#8217;s still on sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, I&#8217;ll say it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some companies, no matter how good their products are, don&#8217;t always serve\u00a0the best interests of their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images \u00a0 What separates the\u00a0BlackBerry PlayBook\u00a0from Apple&#8217;s iPad and other Android-based tablets? 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