To be clear, RIM's "BlackBerry service" is BES. The free account you sign up for is an account on BlackBerry App World. It is the equivalent of an iTunes Store account for Apple.
On Oct 20, 2012, at 00:59 , Ken Rath wrote:
Do you have to subscribe to RIM's Blackberry service to use it? -----Original Message----- From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin Harbron Sent: October 19, 2012 7:42 PM To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Buying a RIM PlaybookHuge price difference between the Playbook and the Surface though. I bought a Playbook when the price dropped to $200, it's a nice tablet for the price.By the way, Jason Compton and I just bought our flights to Toronto; lookingforward to seeing you guys at WoC! Robin. On 12-10-19 6:44 PM, J Bourdeau wrote:Or, you can keep your current PC-based emulators and go for: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-CA - if you like the tablet world...I think it's October 26th that this is released, so wait until spring next year to see how well this new windows works.. -----Original Message----- From: Ernie Chorny Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:45 PM To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Dennis Raindahl ; Ian McIntosh Subject: [torontocbm] Buying a RIM Playbook Now we have a reason to buy a RIM Playbook :) See -http://crackberry.com/talking-retro-gaming-blackberry-amigas-bill- mcewen Ernie
