Ouch – RIM Has $1.7 Million Of PlayBooks Stolen
Oh RIM come on – you don’t need this! Somehow, whilst a truck driver was catching a break last Thursday, his truck full of 22 pallets of BlackBerry PlayBooks – that’s around 5,000 units was stolen. Not only that, there was no tracking device on the vehicle so the theives just went on their merry way.
This loss has been valued at $1.7 million, add this to the $485 million loss recently took a hit on with its poorly selling PlayBooks and the latest delay to their BlackBerry 10 phones and things are not looking good. Their share price has dropped 71% from the beginning of 2011.
I guess things can only get better…
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
