*RIM said it shipped 11.1 million BlackBerry smartphones and more than 500,000 P...

		josteink on March 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RIM reports Q4 miss; Balsillie resigns as director... RIM said it shipped 11.1 million BlackBerry smartphones and more than 500,000 PlayBook tablets last quarter. I absolutely refuse to believe those numbers. I've seen noone with a Blackberry tablet and I'm surrounded by geeks at home and at work. Spotting Android-tablets is hard enough (I have one and besides that I know one other guy IRL which does as well), but Playbooks are practically non-existent.

Shipped does not always equal sold. They could be devices sitting on a palette in the back of some warehouse.