@Paul Clisby The cash handout was 10% of their revenue. Yes, MS was looking at an anti-trust issues, but Apple didn't have to take the money. Do you count Office as part of the handout as well? I wonder what the money value of that was.
I'm waiting for the article to compare Apple with RIM, when Apple was on the ropes and needing a bailout by its major competitor in order to survive.
Is Apple so special that it is the only company that can make a turn around? If the turn around was special due to Steve Jobs, should we expect Apple to start floundering again without his leadership?
RIM Loses Top Salesman, The Bleeding Continues [View article]
Yeah, just speculation. Or wishful hoping by people who think it would be a good day to launch. As a marketing ploy, it would be an excellent day to launch.
RIM Loses Top Salesman, The Bleeding Continues [View article]
"Spence has been with the company for 14 years."
Make up your mind. Does RIM need to shake things up or continue with the status quo? You can't have it both ways.
After 14 years of being in the same company (most likely his first and only due to his age), it is probably a good guess that he no longer had the ability to do what it takes to grow RIM beyond the point they are at.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
"Consumers these days want full access to one of the two major Apps Markets. Only an Apple or an Android based product can offer that."
No. Consumers want access to the App that they use in the Market that is available to their device.
From a developer's perspective, if they can make money in one Market, but can't in another market, which one will they go to? Then if the app is available in one Market and not the other, where do the customers with the phones go?
Marketing tells the customer what they want. Which is why people picked up iPods, even if they where more expensive and had less features than their competitors.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
RIM has a marketing issue. Hence the removal of top management and a new marketing VP. The resolution on the iPad that they say is so great isn't any better than what is on the PlayBook. Faster OS and true multi-tasking. Once you use the swipe gestures on the PlayBook, you wonder why you have to hit a button to go back home on the iPad. On another side of the marketing, there is apparently a lot of praise coming out of the developer community after BBWorld and how the "new" RIM is trying to work with developers and how easy the new BB10 development is.
They may be emerging markets, but their adoption of "smart" phones is higher than the U.S. And, apparently RIM provides a low end phone in those countries that makes it easier for people there to get a "smart" phone. And the challenge of keeping customers is less when you start them walking on your product. The BB10 phones will do a lot towards moving those customers from low end "smart" to high end "smart". RIM also just opened up a bunch of boutique stores in India to lure in those ready to jump to high end smart.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
Sorry if I simplified it, but that was the impression when everyone was waiting for the iPhone to come out.
As far as the PlayBook, you do realize that even being released over a year ago, the specs on it are still better than the iPad3 and it sells for a lot less.
Everybody points to Asia and India, because the phone market there is larger than the entire population of the U.S. and Canada and the U.K.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
"have no sense of tech history" and "was probably saved by the deal with Microsoft that insured Microsoft Office would be available on the Mac"
Apple was a DEAD company. They made changes and brought out the iPod which, with great marketing, brought them back from the DEAD and made them a profitable company. They didn't make the money on the iPhone. The iPhone was just an iPod with a phone option.
So, RIM, who isn't DEAD, is still making money and growing subscribers, is getting hammered by stock analysts who don't know anything about tech. They buy a robust micro-kernal operating system, shake up their upper management and the stock analyst expect a release of a new phone immediately on their time table.
As far as I can tell, the stock price is reflect on continued publishing of articles like this, so that others will continue to short the stock and help push down price. When the BB10 phones are launched in the fall and RIM adds another 2 million subscribers world wide, will we still see these articles?
BlackBerry 10: Savior Or Terminator? [View article]
I know you're lying about Thorsten, because I just watched him demo the BB10 device with full multi-tasking apps using Cascades, an adaptive keyboard and "alter time" photo app that let's you review the entire time you take a picture in case someone blinks and you want to get that second before the blink.
BlackBerry 10: Savior Or Terminator? [View article]
"If anything, the stubborn decision to release BB10 is likely the last nail on RIM's bankruptcy coffin."
Please explain how a company with $0 debt, 77 million subscribers (and growing) and putting away about a billion dollars every 6 months is going bankrupt?
"The biggest problem with this option is the market simply cannot and will not support another platform. Windows 8 is an exception."
So, since BB10 (QNX) is already out in the PlayBook, the Johnny Come Lately Windows 8 has a better chance of succeeding, even though it has the lowest market share currently with Windows 7. Why is Windows 8 an exception? When is lack of competition ever good for the consumer?
"Actually, BB10 will do more harm to RIM than good because it will burn more cash off RIM's limited financial resources. R&D costs money, and releasing a new mobile OS costs a lot of money."
They have over a billion in the bank, even after purchasing a dozen companies in the past 2 years. Development on BB10 is almost complete, they are releasing (giving away) an Alpha Device to developers at the conference going on THIS WEEK.
"There is no value proposition from the customers' perspective why they should adapt to a fourth platform which has no clear advantage."
QNX, which is the OS for the PlayBook and the BB10 phones runs OnStar and a bunch of other car computers. It is in medical devices and the International Space Station. There currently is integration through Bridge between the OS 6,7 BB devices and the PlayBook, the BB10 devices will just make that connection even better. The clear advantage is a stable OS on a device with the future of being integrated into every part of someone's life.
Did someone pay you to make this horrible article?
It's Time To Believe In RIM And The BlackBerry Again [View article]
We had 1600 field techs using BlackBerry devices to open, edit and close service calls. No dedicated support person for the RIMM server, so I don't know what you are talking about.
The same guy who maintained the BES, maintained the Exchange, maintained the rest of the windows servers. Your IT group was being ripped off.
Should You Buy Research In Motion? [View article]
The cash handout was 10% of their revenue. Yes, MS was looking at an anti-trust issues, but Apple didn't have to take the money. Do you count Office as part of the handout as well? I wonder what the money value of that was.
Would you prefer it be called a life preserver?
Should You Buy Research In Motion? [View article]
In what fantasy world do you live in? Why don't you check out what happened in 1997 via Midnightrambler's link.
Should You Buy Research In Motion? [View article]
Is Apple so special that it is the only company that can make a turn around? If the turn around was special due to Steve Jobs, should we expect Apple to start floundering again without his leadership?
RIM Loses Top Salesman, The Bleeding Continues [View article]
RIM Loses Top Salesman, The Bleeding Continues [View article]
RIM Loses Top Salesman, The Bleeding Continues [View article]
Make up your mind. Does RIM need to shake things up or continue with the status quo? You can't have it both ways.
After 14 years of being in the same company (most likely his first and only due to his age), it is probably a good guess that he no longer had the ability to do what it takes to grow RIM beyond the point they are at.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
No. Consumers want access to the App that they use in the Market that is available to their device.
From a developer's perspective, if they can make money in one Market, but can't in another market, which one will they go to? Then if the app is available in one Market and not the other, where do the customers with the phones go?
Marketing tells the customer what they want. Which is why people picked up iPods, even if they where more expensive and had less features than their competitors.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
They may be emerging markets, but their adoption of "smart" phones is higher than the U.S. And, apparently RIM provides a low end phone in those countries that makes it easier for people there to get a "smart" phone. And the challenge of keeping customers is less when you start them walking on your product. The BB10 phones will do a lot towards moving those customers from low end "smart" to high end "smart". RIM also just opened up a bunch of boutique stores in India to lure in those ready to jump to high end smart.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
As far as the PlayBook, you do realize that even being released over a year ago, the specs on it are still better than the iPad3 and it sells for a lot less.
Everybody points to Asia and India, because the phone market there is larger than the entire population of the U.S. and Canada and the U.K.
Research In Motion: Going, Going... Sure To Be Gone [View article]
Apple was a DEAD company. They made changes and brought out the iPod which, with great marketing, brought them back from the DEAD and made them a profitable company. They didn't make the money on the iPhone. The iPhone was just an iPod with a phone option.
So, RIM, who isn't DEAD, is still making money and growing subscribers, is getting hammered by stock analysts who don't know anything about tech. They buy a robust micro-kernal operating system, shake up their upper management and the stock analyst expect a release of a new phone immediately on their time table.
As far as I can tell, the stock price is reflect on continued publishing of articles like this, so that others will continue to short the stock and help push down price. When the BB10 phones are launched in the fall and RIM adds another 2 million subscribers world wide, will we still see these articles?
BlackBerry 10: Savior Or Terminator? [View article]
BlackBerry 10: Savior Or Terminator? [View article]
Please explain how a company with $0 debt, 77 million subscribers (and growing) and putting away about a billion dollars every 6 months is going bankrupt?
"The biggest problem with this option is the market simply cannot and will not support another platform. Windows 8 is an exception."
So, since BB10 (QNX) is already out in the PlayBook, the Johnny Come Lately Windows 8 has a better chance of succeeding, even though it has the lowest market share currently with Windows 7. Why is Windows 8 an exception? When is lack of competition ever good for the consumer?
"Actually, BB10 will do more harm to RIM than good because it will burn more cash off RIM's limited financial resources. R&D costs money, and releasing a new mobile OS costs a lot of money."
They have over a billion in the bank, even after purchasing a dozen companies in the past 2 years. Development on BB10 is almost complete, they are releasing (giving away) an Alpha Device to developers at the conference going on THIS WEEK.
"There is no value proposition from the customers' perspective why they should adapt to a fourth platform which has no clear advantage."
QNX, which is the OS for the PlayBook and the BB10 phones runs OnStar and a bunch of other car computers. It is in medical devices and the International Space Station. There currently is integration through Bridge between the OS 6,7 BB devices and the PlayBook, the BB10 devices will just make that connection even better. The clear advantage is a stable OS on a device with the future of being integrated into every part of someone's life.
Did someone pay you to make this horrible article?
Let The Research In Motion Sweepstakes Begin [View article]
Did you write this before the shake up in the upper management?
It's Time To Believe In RIM And The BlackBerry Again [View article]
The same guy who maintained the BES, maintained the Exchange, maintained the rest of the windows servers. Your IT group was being ripped off.