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| JLG: Saving private RIM |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by henderson101 on 2012-08-07 13:27:28 |
| "Over the past couple weeks, we've read a number of bedtimes stories about RIM's next move. They all start with the same trope: once upon a time, late last century, Apple was on the edge of the precipice and still managed to come back - and how! Today, RIM's situation isn't nearly as dire as Apple's was then. Unlike Apple, it doesn’t need a cash transfusion and, in the words of Thorsten Heins, RIM's new CEO: 'If you look at the platform it's still growing, if you look at the devices we've got a single phone that's sold 45 million units.' RIM will pull off an Apple-like rebound and live happily ever after. Equating RIM 2012 with Apple 1997 is, in so many respects, delusional. Let me count the ways." |
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| RE: Blackberries are a case of study! |
| By daedalus on 2012-08-08 14:16:46 |
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> they use outdated pre-internet data plans Eh? Am I missing something here? In my country anyway, manufacturers have nothing to do with the data plans - they don't sell them, they don't design them. RIM phones use the carrier provided data plans just like any other phone here anyway... > they use outdated keyboard phones That's down to opinion really. Having only recently switched from a keypad phone to a touchscreen phone, I can say I desperately miss the keys. If it weren't for how otherwise wonderful the N9 is to use, I'd have switched back to my E52 already. > they use outdated OS9-era Operating System Hmmm, maybe. I've always found it to me more "modern" than Symbian for example. Not as shiny and silky as iOS & Android, but certainly very capable, and closer to the money than you seem to think. Definitely not OS9 levels of catching up to do! > RIM is a vintage company! And that's amazing from a market point of view. RIM is still able to sell this prehistoric technology at fairly up-market prices. Prehistoric? Overdramatic much? It's not cutting edge, but I've found them quite reasonable for doing the average smartphone stuff - nice screens and fast enough CPUs for web browsing and viewing office documents for example. Again, they're not cutting edge, but current enough to be usable. |
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| RE[2]: Blackberries are a case of study! |
| By zima on 2012-08-14 23:56:01 |
| EDGE is quite universal nowadays; the only thing that RIM offered in the dark ages was email ...thing whihc isn't used so much by this demographic / in the places you mention it;s more about so called "feature phones" being smartphones, really (like S40 handsets with Opera Mini) |
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| RE: Blackberries are a case of study! |
| By zima on 2012-08-14 23:58:06 |
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> Really, RIM sells 1997 technology at 2012 prices... I'm not trolling here, seriously, they use outdated pre-internet data plans, they use outdated keyboard phones, they use outdated OS9-era Operating System... RIM is a vintage company! Considering your gloating, at some other times, about even more obsolete Amiga tech - you are trolling. |
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