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Adobe Releases Full Flash to Everyone but Apple

Flash is a disaster for slow internet connections like 2G and even 3G. It will hog bandwidth, slow you way down, and slow everyone else on the mobile net as it sucks the air out of the room!

RIM Faces Growing Competition from Apple and Palm

Of course its a competition! Its called business - taking market share away from your competitors. Go Apple!


On Sep 27 01:18 PM Techtrader10 wrote:

> The Apple "faithful" seem to need to make it a competition between
> their iPhone vs. whatever other product. In reality, RIMM's products
> are still selling well, they have expanded into the consumer market
> (read that the iPhone market) and I feel the lack of growth is more
> a result of a slow economy and a ten percent unemployment rate vs.
> a switch to a competitor. Sorry TechCrunch, I'm just not convinced
> your arument is valid. I feel the economy is finally catching up
> to the smart phone market. And I feel we will be seeing the same
> thing happening to the rest of this niche market.

RIM Faces Growing Competition from Apple and Palm

So that makes you the brightest bulbs in the room?


On Sep 27 08:00 AM lucky lenny wrote:

> Tech, where I work, over 100 of us have Blackberrys. There's absolutely
> no way we're going iphone or palmpre. So unless u can point to Fortune
> 500 companies making the switch, i'm not sure your points hold up.

Reading Palm: Pre Sales and the Secondary Offering

The author's comment below is very misleading and grossly inaccurate:
"Palm answered investors' concerns about growth and unit shipments for the Pre. Palm said that they shipped about 832,000 as of this quarter..."

Reading through the transcripts Palm stated no such thing. They would not break out Pre numbers. That number they gave was in fact for their FULL product line which includes the Treo and Centro phones which still have a substantial sales and distribution base with MULTIPLE carriers. While the overall NET increase from PREVIOUS quarters probably included mostly Pre phones, the estimates of 400-500,000 Pres sold can most certainly be accurate. And for certain, all 845k units were not Pres.

Reading Palm: Pre Sales and the Secondary Offering

Palm will at best just continue bumping along taking share from others, but not Apple. Its customer satisfaction levels are not that high, and they are not a platform play like Apple (closely integrated across the desktop, cloud and handheld by the iTunes store and MobileME, and the more sophisticated and powerful OS X).

Can Motorola Follow the Palm Path?

And that would be an extremely stupid move. Handset makers seem to enjoy racing to the bottom with their pricing, supported by the carriers. It is these pricing schemes that have destroyed the perceived value of handsets, and ruined the brands in the process. In fact, it is the carries that are the commodity, yet they have flipped this around so it is the handsets that have no perceived value. This is what happens when you give something away for free! Then when you innovate, and add many new features and functions, consumers still expect it to be free. How about if Motorola et al sell their handsets for what they are actually worth, and if the carrier really wants your business, let them give you 6 months of free service with a two year contact! And now the carriers are setting plans to destroy the netbook/laptop market the same way.


On Sep 13 01:59 PM Yagottabe Kidding wrote:

> [This is a clarification post]
>
> When I type "low-end" above I am NOT talking about functionality
> but instead "place in the lineup". Motorola, if they are indeed pricing
> the Cliq "free" with contract, is setting a new standard for smartphones
> that ALL the other manufacturers will have to beat. The Cliq is wonderfully
> functional and includes Motorola's Motoblur which aparently is a
> better-implemented act-alike to Palm's Synergy - a REAL slap upside
> their corporate head.

iPhone 3GS Owners Are Happy, Good for Apple

How absurd your comments are. Overpriced? Based on what? Its the most sophisticated handheld computer on the market, and is being significantly subsidized by the carrier. You are obviously a shill for someone. Your claims on the battery are also nonsense - the battery life for 3G voice and internet access is exactly the same as the previous 3G iphone.

And AT&T service useless? I guess that means that MILLIONS of cellphone owners are not using their cellphones even though they pay AT&T every month. Yes they have some network deficiencies in some markets, but they have been rapidly improving them so this is very old news. Further, I switched to AT&T before the iPhone came out here in Denver because the Verizon network had a huge dead zone in my neighborhood right in DOWNTOWN Denver and they said it would take at least 2 years to fix it, so EVERY carrier has their stories.


On Aug 16 11:12 PM donzoab wrote:

> The reality is, 3gs is still overpriced and overhyped. Battery life
> is the worst yet. At & t service is useless. Many of the apps
> are just garbage.
> I won't be upgrading again. My next move is back to the blackberry
> or Pre. Anything else. Time to go back to Verizon and get a phone
> that actually works and a PDA that can really surf the net.

iPhone 3GS Owners Are Happy, Good for Apple

@yogottabe - with all due respect you are obviously not a research expert. A survey with a sample of 200 respondents is a significant survey and statistically valid.


On Aug 16 03:41 PM Yagottabe Kidding wrote:

> That survey was invalid simply due to lack of respondents - the results
> MIGHT reflect reality but surveying only =200= iPhone users (WHICH
> 200?) is so into the noise-level of iPhone users it's just silly.
>
>
> And they "surveyed" 40...yes, only 40...Pre users at the same time.
>
>
> Why is this even newsworthy?

Roger McNamee - Judgment Day on Pre vs. iPhone

And you would be an idiot... The guy looks like a fool. It just reinforces how poorly the phone is doing.


On Jul 30 03:00 AM jmmx wrote:

> You write:
> "So how did McNamee’s claim turn out? Well, let’s put it this way:
> If there was a foot-in-the-mouth award given every year, no one else
> would need to apply this year. "
>
> Not really. His statement created such a buzz that you are still
> writing about it 4 months later. That is a hell of a lot of free
> publicity. I bet it helped to sell at least 20% of those Pres.<br/>
>
> Pretty good one-liner if you ask me.

RIM Is Ready to Meet Competitors' Challenge - Citigroup

What? Not a chance.


On Jun 03 08:28 AM Johnathan Vrozos wrote:

> Cosmo Mannella and RIM are are attached at the hip like President
> Barrack Obama and his Blackberry.
>
> It is the greatest PD in the world and the stock will reflect that
> albeit sometimes slower than we want.
>
> Go LONG on RIM and go BB.
>
> By Johnathan Vrozos
> johnathanvrozos.ca

RIM Is Ready to Meet Competitors' Challenge - Citigroup

sorry, its not just about mind share, its about a far superior and more enriching experience.


On Jun 03 05:37 AM Economyst wrote:

> RIM is focused around messaging and email - it's a market that it
> leads and has helped to define.
>
> However it needs to expand its focus into the consumer market but
> this is where the Iphone and Apple have increasing mindshare and
> market share.
>
> RIM had the right strategy of bringing out the Storm but its execution
> was poor. RIM needs to improve its o/s if it wants to stand any chance
> of breaking into the consumer market.

The Palm Pre's Coming Out Party

And thousands of the iphone apps run when you're not on the web, so what is the big deal about this WebOS? As always, Apple will continue to be the innovation leader. As faster processors for phones become available, and better batteries, the superior iPhone OS and Apple ecosystem will continue to kick butt. Agree that RIMM is the one that needs to worry.

The Palm Pre: Can One Device Save Two Companies?

I'm long Apple and hope they take huge share from RIMM, but this statement is absurd. RIMM is a formidable competitor that will continue to thrive. Shorts are floating turds in the toilet bowl of life.


On May 19 06:14 PM JamesApple wrote:

> Research in Motion is going bankrupt soon, possibly before the year
> 2011.

Windows Mobile: Like Using Fred Flintstone's iStone

Good come back Bastion. And as for Palm. You left out one key point against her HTC post - its windows and its MS.

And as for Palm, you should read this link on the continued disaster at Palm.... shows that the hype coming out of CES regarding the Pre is nonsense once you really dig into the facts...

www.roughlydrafted.com.../

Palm's Pre Goes a Step Further Than the iPhone

Nothing new in this phone. This is not a game changer and will not save this dying company. It may be a new OS, but it cannot compete with the cross platform integration of the iPhone, or the Apple ecosystem of desktop, cloud and phone/hand held computer.