Wireless Wiz

The Winner-Takes-All Smartphone

"My feeling is that Baruch is right, and the latter outcome is likely to prevail. Consumers are lazy: outside the hard core of gadget geeks, people don’t spend a lot of time worrying about whether they’ve got the best phone on the market: instead, they’ll just buy an iPhone and be done. Assuming, that is, that Apple drops its exclusivity arrangement with AT&T (T). Because that really can be a dealbreaker."

This is contradictory, if a consumer doesn't care, why would they automatically buy an iPhone? Especially if there are cheaper and viable alternatives out there. This doesn't make sense. It's like saying Mercedes makes a good car and consumers are lazy, so they'll just buy a Mercedes. Is that how the market really works? Of course not.

Further, for the layperson who doesn't really care, the appstore will not lock them in, as if they don't care, how many apps will they actually download anyway? Typically, most people find a few core apps they use all the time and the rest is kind of frivolous stuff that might be a fun game or a fart app or a mulletizer, etc. These are the apps that get downloaded, used once, and never used again.

At the end of the day the consumer who doesn't care will choose many different types of devices for many different reasons and you can't just default to one manufacturer or another. That's just lazy thinking in and of itself.

BlackBerry Sales Propel Research in Motion

YES. Because Droid was supposed to kill the Blackberry (still waiting...) and the cost isn't in the handset, it's in the monthly data plan for $30 or more for 24 months. Pretty basic stuff.


On Dec 21 05:22 AM User 266943 wrote:

> VZ has been giving two Blackberrys for each Blackberry purchase for
> months and someone is surprised by 10.1 million smartphones shipped?

Potential Smartphone Buyers Choosing Blackberrys Despite iPhone, Droid Hype

This is classic. It's all luck for RIM! It has nothing to do with Mike Lazaridis and his engineering team? And the many hardworking individuals at the company? Just dumb luck. It was lucky RIM moved from pagers to smartphones as the market and technology changed? That's just rubbish. This is the kind of guy who blames everyone else for his own failures and takes all the credit for success when he didn't do anything to earn it. Entertaining stuff, James, keep the hits coming!


On Dec 20 11:56 PM JamesApple wrote:

> I lived in China for 14 years. I lived in the US and Canada for 42
> years. All my life I am in the electronics manufacturing business.
> I had made and lost fortunes. I manufactured the Columbia PC clones
> back in 1985, I also manufactured the Peach Apple II clones at that
> time, before Kaypro and Compaq wiped me out. Rim is a lot bigger
> than I ever got, it's more luck than anything else. It's God's wishes,
> not what we do, or fail to do.

Potential Smartphone Buyers Choosing Blackberrys Despite iPhone, Droid Hype

I like how you equate one anecdote to generically apply to all "businessmen" even though the term businessmen actually applies to so many different individuals - many who use Blackberries and many who use other mobile phones such as the iPhone, for instance. So in your world what you carry to communicate with defines you? What about those who carry an iPhone and a Blackberry? How do you define them?

This just demonstrates your inability to cope with the success of RIM after being fired from the company. Get a grip.


On Dec 20 02:45 PM JamesApple wrote:

> I've seen 'businessmen' grabbing fistfuls of paper towels and toilet
> paper in men's washrooms at shopping centers and coffee shops and
> stuff them into their briefcases. Yuck!! These fiends are some of
> the world's lowest and cheapest turds I wouldn't let them within
> 20 feet of my family. No wonder businessmen carry blackberrys, some
> of them probably fished those blackberrys out of toilet bowls and
> stuffed them with some stolen Sim cards. Junky blackberrys fit for
> junky turds like businessmen. Crackberrys fit for crack addict teens
> who's got no money left for buying good phones and can't steal from
> their poor parents who are probably out of jobs.

Potential Smartphone Buyers Choosing Blackberrys Despite iPhone, Droid Hype

Seriously? People still don't understand the industry model, yet still make ridiculous statements. RIM has NEVER offered a 2 for 1 promotion. It's the carrier that offers the promotion. RIM gets paid its full price for each Blackberry sold.

Please do some research, gain some insights into the mobile industry and its workings before writing nothing more than a senseless emotional rant, much like our friend JamesApple, who never misses an opportunity to write something filled with hate towards RIM.


On Dec 20 09:23 AM Watash wrote:

> Periodically Research In Motion will offer a two for one promotion
> to keep its "popularity" figures artifically high. Some persons or
> organizations will always choose two articles at the same price versus
> one quality and optimal one. RIMM products tend to shed prices with
> frequent use. Necessary replacement is high

Research in Motion: Well Positioned to Take Advantage of the Smartphone Explosion

Yet Apple is often volatile as well around earnings announcements - but because it is Apple it is a special case. Does this guy actually believe the BS he vomits on this site?


On Dec 19 01:54 AM JamesApple wrote:

Historically Rimm share
> prices had gone up or down by 18% during financial reportings, this
> kind of extraordinary volatility is not a characteristic of a good
> stock for investors.

Research in Motion: Well Positioned to Take Advantage of the Smartphone Explosion

JamesApple continues to be a joke. He likes to post not once, not twice, not even three times, but SIX times out of the 14 comments above. And as he posts his dribble, RIM just keeps plodding along doing its thing. At what point does this guy give up?

Research in Motion Finally Gets Moving

That would be equally as foolish as the citigroup analyst you allude to.


On Dec 18 01:54 PM aaavoid wrote:

> interface blah blah, better software blah blah, you might as well
> work with that dumb fool citigroup analyst who downgraded rimm stock
> just because moto android was released 3 months back. yawn. wasted
> my time reading this junk.
>
> sell your apple stock before it's too late.

Research in Motion Finally Gets Moving

Let me add this quote from the conference call, which I believe is one of the most important things that will happen to RIM in the next few months:

"we talked about the web kit browser -- boy, when you can get that rendering with our transcoding and our infrastructure, you would be shocked how fast it is and how it shrinks the network consumption." - Jim Balsillie

Imagine if Blackberries had a very good and quick browser.

Research In Motion F3Q10 (Qtr End 11/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript

STOP IT JAMES! You are an idiot. If you read the transcript, listened to the call, did an ounce of research, you would see that sell through was high as channel inventory stayed essentially flat quarter over quarter. You are the worst TROLL on the internet when it comes to RIM bashing.


On Dec 18 04:37 AM JamesApple wrote:

> Rim dumped its miles of shelves full of unsold unwanted blackberrys
> offshores in Asia and Europe booking them as sales. Is that legal?

RIM: 'I’m Not Dead Yet'

You have been to shown to be absolutely wrong in every one of your calls. If the definition of insane is doing the same over and over and expecting a different result, I can now firmly say you my friend, are insane! Please go away now.


On Dec 18 04:14 AM JamesApple wrote:

> Watch closely how Rimm share prices fluctuate in the next few weeks
> and observe how Rimm's notorious high volatility plays out in its
> historically irrational and obviously very heavily manipulated activities.
> Too many negative factors both long term and short term against are
> increasing rather than increasing making the highly volatile Rim
> business a stock to stay away from.

RIM: Sentiment Drops Ahead of Earnings

Did you mean drop or POP? JamesApple, it's official, you are an idiot.

P.S. I really don't like to call people names, but seriously, this guy really deserves it over and over and over. Perhaps he will go away now?


On Dec 16 02:09 PM JamesApple wrote:

> September 22% drop was strike 1 against Rim.
>
> Tomorrow's ??% drop will be strike 2 against Rim.
>
> March 2010's ??% drop will be strike 3 against Rim?
>
> Not! Rim supporters would talk soccer the moment Rim gets struck
> out. Most of these flabber mouths don't even buy Rimm stocks.
>
> Rimm share price could go down even more than its September 22% loss
> tomorrow. That would make the March 2010 quarterly report that much
> more precarious.
>
> Rim is in bad shape, and getting much worse.
>

Can RIM Keep Up with Apple and Android?

Amen, stockavenger. That JamesApple guy should be embarrassed with his rants!

RIM: Sentiment Drops Ahead of Earnings

(piqqem leverages the ‘wisdom of crowds’ by allowing its users to vote on the price direction of a stock and then applies its own propriety factors to calculate sentiment for a security. In their model, -100 is the lowest and 100 is the highest sentiment)

Is this really wisdom? Or a popularity contest? There is no question the world is dogging RIM right now because of all the "competition" and most recently because everyone and their brother is all over Android. As far as I can tell, the Android platform isn't living up to the hype with actual sales, but it's probably too early to tell.

The last quarter would have showed the exact opposite for RIM and we all know what happened to the stock after the release. This quarter it appears to be the opposite in that there are many negative folks out there. Perhaps it is setting up for a pop on earnings when they show they still are selling lots of devices and are participating in an expanding market.

Now of course once iPhone reaches 90% adoption (or at least the fans would have you believe), and Android garners another 9%, there is only 1% left for RIM, Palm, Nokia, WM - so maybe the sentiment indicator...or beauty contest might be correct? As the poster above eloquently states - "Rubbish".

The Unlocked Phone Movement Gets a Big Boost

Anyone who believes tablets will be the end of smartphones just isn't using common sense. The limiting factor is whether it can fit in your pocket or hung on your belt. If it can't, then the smartphone will continue to flourish. You simply will not see the average person walking around with a 10 inch tablet - but they will carry around everywhere they go an iPhone or Blackberry, or any smartphone with a 2-3.5 inch screen. Why? Because it fits in your pocket. It's that simple.