RIM MUST think of its customers. Yeah yeah, the niche market has been the corporation. The BES platform is the best! No other product has matured to offer the same functionality; I have looked.<div><br></div><div>The new Customer that RIM must think of is the one that wants to converge all their devices/toys (tv, phone, tablet, even your car stereo) to one ecosystem. These are elements that exist outside the corporation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Applications, are very very thin on the Blackberry platform, go ahead try and find a SIP application, without having to buy their software platform. I found over 20 candidates on the Android Market, I will not even boar you with how many on the AppStore.</div>
<div>Simple things like that empower the user, are the contributing factors to RIM's slump.</div><div>Like the Android, RIM also suffers from fragmentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Apple, is doing it again. With iMessage; which is not really new; RIM had an iteration first, they have attacked ALL the worlds carriers in one single blow. iMessages gives back to the consumer that value that the carrier has been charging you for texting. </div>
<div>Apple improve upon iMessage by supporting it on all their IOS devices. Just think, this will extend to your AppleTV, your iPad and what ever else they chose for you.</div><div><br></div><div>RIM is an innovative company; they gave us PUSH. they will find a way to get out of this slump.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:33, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Bob Jonkman wrote, On 06/24/2011 10:07 AM:<div class="im"><br>
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But I disagree - There is still plenty of market to sell to. The two players that are in hot water have closed and proprietary systems, which were marginal consumer marketshare to begin with.<br>
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Is one of these two Nokia? If so, did not Nokia own the cell phone market not long ago?<div class="im"><br>
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> Nokia would have been<br>
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OK if they hadn't moved to a Windows based phone OS.<br>
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I have no reason to believe that's true. If Nokia had been ok without moving to Windows, they wouldn't have moved to Windows, IMO.<br>
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I think Nokia was doomed, regardless. Same as, and in the same way, Palm was?<br>
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... hmmm ... is RIM where Nokia was? [For all the reasons you mentioned.]<div class="im"><br>
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> The remaining<br>
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players are those with (mostly) open Android Linux phones, and Apple. I think there will be further market shakeup, leaving only Android and Apple to duke it out.<br>
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Mmm. Don't know about that. Depends if RIM can figure out, implement, and deliver, whatever the next generation is, in time. Or keep building, at an acceptable level, verticals. [To Kiwi's point, those verticals will have to be broadened, horizontally, too.]<br>
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Kiwi makes a good point on Android - the lack of breadth that Apple has. Not that they're not vigorously working on that. But is that (current) Android breadth not ... Google? Which has at least some level of resistance, and (currently) some limits - Google being 'only' Google, after all.<br>
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I wonder if the hard wall Android has in front of it is the same wall that the deep penetration of Linux desktops has been unable to manage.<br>
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If Android has the same 'hard' limits that RIM does, a non-infinite ecosystem, will it ultimately go the way of RIM?<br>
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Apple isn't going to take over the world (or it already would have), so something supra-Android will emerge. Perhaps from RIM?<br>
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(Even if so, the paradigm change has happened - Android / free software will never not be a pillar of the environment, again, I expect.)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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