RIM: Only 200,000 PlayBooks Shipped, Misses Device Forecast By 1.3 Million

A pretty troubling set of numbers out for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) today. The Canada-based handset maker says that it has only shipped 200,000 PlayBook tablets, and sales in BlackBerry smartphones were dismal, too: the company has sold only 10.6 million handsets, well short of original estimates of 11.9 million. The financial numbers weren’t much prettier: revenue during the quarter was $4.2 billion, a...