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Blackberry Battles iPhone Loyalty 'Stampede'

Yes, but the trash has to be taken out first. how many times has that guy jamesapple written the same exact thing? check his comment stream...


On Jun 25 07:21 PM JW.PhD wrote:

> EJL, do you have anything of intelligence to offer, or just more
> shill-speak like "vomit" and "pot, meet kettle"?
>
> You people are proving my original point with every post. Thanks.

Three Strikes from Apple and Palm May Be Out

This guy is making dumb comments as usual. It just doesn't add up. Smartphone sales skyrocket, yet one of the leaders in the category is dead? huh? Makes no sense. The actual trends just don't agree with this.


On May 21 08:29 AM JamesApple wrote:

> Pre will be one of many blackberry-killers. As smartphone sales skyrocket,
> people will adopt more superior offerings like iPhone, Nokia and
> Pre, HTC etc, inferior and giveaway blackberry will die.

RIM Beats Apple in One-Hit Wonder Quarter. What's Next?

I can respect that. I just wish posters would actually have some knowledge before ranting. I can see you are rational.

RIM Beats Apple in One-Hit Wonder Quarter. What's Next?

jmmx - are you an apple fan by any chance? verizon is subsidizing the handset to lock in the data plan (you have to have an email plan to qualify - comes right off their site - so your friend must have some kind of data plan to get the bogo offer) RIM gets a profitable handset sale PLUS the two years of service revenue kickbacks from verizon at 80% margins ($4-5 gross per month or another $100 over the contract).

so, you're wrong about the bogo offer and you're wrong about the margin. perhaps you should pursue the age old adage that you'd rather have people believe you to be a fool and remain silent than open your mouth and remove all doubt?

and by the way, i have a bold (and a curve, and a javelin, and a storm, and an 8700, and a 7130) and an iphone and you are correct that safari rocks, but the bold browser is quite capable. this is just my opinion though. no doubt i'll get blasted by an apple fan.

Smartphone Wars to Heat Up This Summer

JamesApple - are you still blaming RIM for the current financial crisis? Just curious. I recently read one of your rants that blamed them.

Who Will Win the Smartphone Wars?

Back it again again brewdog! i thought you would be quiet after your rim "creative" accounting blunder where you ignorantly wondered out loud how rim's margins could be decent when vz is offering bogo, not realizing vz is subsidizing the phone, and not rim.

in re the keyboard, funny that the iphone does that because rim's phones do that as well, and have for some time. again, ignorant of facts. please stop posting, i'm getting tired of pointing out your mistakes. it's fine to love your iphone, i love mine (but prefer to use the bb day to day), but at least try to be a little balanced in your approach.

besides, if apple has been leading tech since '79, the why for almost 30 years such low mkt share? just a question.


On Apr 08 10:50 AM brewer wrote:

> Windows Mobile and RIM are basically 90's technology compared to
> the iPhone. Palm is simply a rip off, with a dumb keyboard for
> those who think they somehow can't type on screen. They only reason
> they have Pre is that they hired away Jon Rubenstein from Apple.
> (Guess that once the megahertz myth was a moot point--intel move,
> he had nothing left to explain at Apple.)
>
> I find the predictive correction on the iPhone/iPod keyboard to be
> so good that it's faster than using a fixed keyboard. And it's
> great that it can change to add whatever key you want, and even hold
> a key to get any diacritical. Try that on any other keyboard!<br/>
>
> Apple is leading tech to an even greater extent now, but this has
> been their role since 1979.

Who Will Win the Smartphone Wars?

and of course only software matters and not air interface/data transmission technologies. while apple can write some serious code they don't understand yet the scarcities involved in mobile. their devices end up using so much bandwidth that carriers need to upgrade and upgrade. look at att's capex plans ahead of iphone launch in june. meanwhile rim approaches everything from an efficiency standpoint and compresses data that moves over the network. this gives them an advantage when it comes to carrier incentives. regardless of the nonsense written here, the macro picture means there will be plenty of business for multiple smartphone vendors for the next few years so it is quite possible both rim and apple can coexist and prosper simultaneously. (ps. don't tell that to any of the apple fans here, they won't believe it)

and remember the best technology does not always equal the most mkt share. many factors affect ultimate end sales.

RIMM Responds to Competition with the Niagara

holy f*ck! did this guy just say that RIM is responsible for the global financial meltdown! that's a new one! i guess jamesapple just got crossed the list of credible posters.


On Mar 27 02:28 PM JamesApple wrote:

> RIM is built on telecommunication technologies, the realm of protocols
> and networks. NASA, MIT, Bell Labs can certainly make better candidates
> than RIM, is RIM in business for smartphones or making something
> like spyphones? If RIM is making smartphones for businesses and hoping
> for consumers then RIM should become a smartphone vendor and make
> their BlackBerries smart for the bussinesses and hope for the best,
> the consumers. It is the mentality of the current crop of so-called
> business users that make me wonder if the 2008 to now global recession
> is brought about by the RIM BlackBerry products and culture of using
> eMail for business decision making and communication that is so incoherent
> and incomplete thus crashing the fragile ecosystem. Perhaps RIM would
> be best switching into making spyphones for Maxwell Smart, most normal
> people think of the BlackBerry as weird anyway.

RIMM Responds to Competition with the Niagara

Jon T - the Storm was terrible but the software now has advanced enough so that I used to hate it and now I love it. (I am using an OS .114 hybrid v2) Once you get used to the keyboard, I am finding the Storm to be an awesome device. I have an iPhone, a Curve, an 8900 Curve and I have kept using the Storm since the software got tuned.

Apple's New iPhone Could Crash Palm's Pre Release Party

twodales - RIM actually does have a technological lead over apple in one important area. while, apple is much better on the software side, it is not when it comes down to data transmission and compression. please do some research on rim's technology before making uninformed comments and burning all your nosehairs off! i find it amusing that apple criticized rim's centralized server approach yet they have now copied it with their own push notification servers, essentially endorsing the methodology. it will be interesting to see how apple's service levels are. hopefully, apple can do a better job with this than with the launch of mobileme. i can't even imagine all the iphanatics reactions when apple has service hiccups - they'll march on cupertino with pitchforks and torches!


On Mar 20 10:05 AM Twodales wrote:

> Of course Canaccord Adams is going to think that this won't effect
> Rimm, it's a Canadian company that make a market in that company.
>
> In Boston the super successful Blackberry Storm is now a buy one
> get one free proposition at $99. Can't wait for the day that iPhone
> is buy one get one free (hell freezes over). Access to the 30 pin
> connector is the game changer. The phrase "RIM's technological lead"
> made me laughed so hard that I spit coffee through my nose

Apple's New iPhone Could Crash Palm's Pre Release Party

settle down apple fans - just because apple creates the best and most powerful software does not automatically translate into market dominance. If it did, 90% of computers would be Macs, right? 3.0 is a great evolution of the platform, but it is just that, evolution. I'm more interested in Apple's new hardware. Palm Pre is a side show. How can anyone say anything about it when it's still a few months away from being released. There was even an analyst on cnbc recently who unequivocally stated with a straight face that Pre is a much better phone than iPhone - yet the interviewer didn't ask whether he had actually used one. This is the type of bullshit you see everyday.

Smartphone Lock-Ins Aren't As Bad as Some Claim

"as well as a channel for RIM (RIMM) and the Korean firms to offer their “me too” smart phones."

Joel - is it really fair to lump in RIM with the Korean device makers as a "me too"? Isn't RIM the leader in smartphones in the US?

Sector Overview: Handsets

Why would any self respecting RIM shareholder want Dell stock?

Research In Motion's 3G Counteroffensive: The Smartphone Arms Race Escalates

ALL YOU IPHONE FANS/USERS/BELIEVERS SHOULD READ THIS:

You all are accurate in believing how wonderful the iPhone is. It is. Truly an awesome device. A great platform that will develop and get better and better. I love my iPhone.

BUT, you need to understand economics to see why RIM has an advantage to take huge amounts of market share from Motorola, Samsung, and Nokia even when iPhone is exploding.

There is HUGE demand elasticity in data pricing. All you guys here simply accept whatever the monthly data charge is and pay it happily to have the iPhone. But the vast majority of people are very price sensitive and may not want to pay the full $30/month for data services. However, they might pay $10/month extra to have a great email service. This is where RIM comes in and is uniquely positioned to expand. They are actively working with carriers to offer flexible data pricing plans for BBs. This drives huge adoption in every carrier they have done this.

Apple could never do this. Why? The posters above say it all - they are addicted to the iPhone and use huge amounts of data/bandwidth. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see AT&T try to tier the iPhone data plans because of this.

So, on one hand you get an iPhone sub that costs you more money upfront (larger subsidy) and taxes your network but offers a great experience and on the other hand the BB offers you a high value customer (typically higher ARPU) but respects the network's bandwidth due to the BB architecture which compresses all data.

Economics usually end up winning out, so before you guys call it game over for RIM, you might want to delve deeper into some of these issues that affect actual end user sales AND incentives that carriers have to sell one product vs another.

Oh, did I tell you I love my iPhone? I did, but interestingly enough, I USE my Blackberry because it does everything I need it to do very efficiently. Funny how personal choice affects end use as well.

Disclosure: Long AAPL & RIMM

Here's What Will Happen To Apple's Rivals

It always amazes me that people actually believe that activesync is a true replacement for the BES/Blackberry solution. It's not. It doesn't come close. Does anyone do homework these days?
- It uses a tremendous amount if precious device resources like battery power.
- It is not totally secure.
- The device pings the mail server. What large security minded corporation wants to open their firewalls to incoming pings?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Don't believe the hype. The iPhone will kill it, no doubt, but so will RIM, and even some others, as the market for smartphones explodes. Good luck on your paired trade...