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but on the other side for the financials is technology that is one of the best performing groups over the years it is up nearly twenty percent since the last time we hit down 13 k and just think back then in May 2008 first generation iphone still just a baby only your coolest friends had one and tablets didn't even exist but today it's a full-blown tablet war and research in motion is trying scraping clawing to try to make its mark rim updating its tablet operating system today and releasing the long-awaited playbook to point oh and get this it actually runs email but is that a little too little too late let's find out bring in jon rettinger president of TechnoBuffalo john what do you think too little too late for ram or a fair entrant into the tablet competition you know it arguably might have been too little too late back in april when the playbook initially launched blackberry and rim particular company that's known for email launched a product without email the damage has been done in the consumers minors it's a shame because the operating system is incredibly solid why do you say it's incredibly solid consumers don't seem to think so so it's a credible operating system it runs on a qnx kernel based on linux it's great for multitasking it can run applications completely in the background where rim has lacked has been in developer support so you're looking at the tablet world you want to get an iPad you want to get an android device tons of application support you're looking at very very very minimal choices on the PlayBook that's one of the big reasons that it hasn't had that mass consumer adoption that and lack of email you know I'm looking on bestbuy.com earlier today just to check out prices i see a 16 gig playbook available for the cool price of 199 it initially listed for 499 yeah it has been an absolute fire sale and rim if you go if you check out their main website is touting now that the playbook not only has email but also has calendar and contacts and those are features that obviously should have been there from day one for company that's known for having those features they really it's a king to launch in your car without a steering wheel and that note chug we're gonna leave it there are without a steering wheel thank you very much jon rettinger techno Buffalo