Category: RIM

Is BB10 The Real Life example of “the chicken or the egg”

Blackberry 10, Windows Phone 8, and all of the new phone and tablet operating systems out there face face a serious problem in the fight to gain market share from Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS: Developers want to develop apps for an operating system with the largest possible audience and customer base, and users want to use the operating system with the most, and...

One of the Longest Blackberry Users Preorders iphone

Today I’m happy to report that my dad has preordered the iphone 5. What’s so significant about this? My dad has been using a blackberry since 1999 when he used a pre-release version of the 850 as a business tester. So, it took a while, but my dad has preordered one. By the end of 2012 my family will have shifted from 4 blackberry/...

RIM As Leaky As a Baby’s Bottom

Once again RIM has leaked a phone accidentally. In one of their developer areas they had the unreleased and unannounced blackberry bold 9730 for a short while. Whoops. It’s not catastrophic and they didn’t leak any details, but it’s just another in a continuous stream of gaffes by the dying company. The leak in the developer center Posts provided by The App Store Chronicle-...

Can Blackberry Be Saved? Link Post

Can RIM and Blackberry save themselves. Everybody seems to have a different opinion. Even my own family is divided. Blackberry definitely has some valuable aspects such as their BBM proprietary messaging service, but everyone agrees that they must inovate beyond anything that has been done before to save their companies. This could me a new technology. A new hardware, A new Software. We don’t know, but we have...