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(Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion brushed off suggestions on Thursday that it would discontinue production of its PlayBook computer tablet as "pure fiction" after an analyst said the company may be considering an exit from the market.
"Rumors suggesting that the BlackBerry PlayBook is being discontinued are pure fiction," RIM spokeswoman Marisa Conway said in an emailed statement. "RIM remains highly committed to the tablet market and the future of QNX in its platform."
QNX is the operating system used in the PlayBook. RIM has said it will launch "superphones" next year using the QNX software to replace its aging existing phone software.
A Collins Stewart analyst said on Thursday that RIM may have halted PlayBook production and canceled additional tablet projects.
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He cited last week's news that contract manufacturer Quanta Computer had laid off a significant number of workers at a factory focused on producing the PlayBook.
"Additionally, our due diligence indicates that RIM has canceled development of additional tablet projects," Vihn wrote.
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RIM shares were down 2.6 percent at $21.32 on the Nasdaq early on Thursday afternoon and are down more than 60 percent so far this year.
(Reporting by Alastair Sharp; editing by Peter Galloway)
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RudyHaugeneder wrote:
Oops. Has RIM secretly invented something new that is on the verge of replacing the tablet — you know, something, perhaps a secure bio-communications device of some sort, that is so world-shaking that it will throw existing technology into the rubbish heap of old junk?
Or has RIM learned somebody else has done it and the company is revising its entire business plan to take this otherwise huge disaster into account?
Hey, don’t rule it out. Computer science, biotechnology, etc. is advancing so quickly that a technological blink of an eye is metaphorically now as long as recorded history.
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