Wtf, RIM

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i just changed jobs and they gave me a blackberry as the business phone....i farking hate it! There is nothing intuitive about it...it reminds me of my cheap chinese phone i bought for 50 bucks a few years back. To respond to a text message, you have to open the menu, select "reply", type your message in the proper field, hit the menu button again, scroll down to send and then its off! and the screen looks like a word document, very plain and ugly. At least the chinese phone had TV and FM antenna built in. lol.

Oh and in the last 2 weeks i dont know how many ppl i have dialed accidentally, or how many "notes" and "emails" i started to type cuz i forget to put it to stand by when i put it in my pocket.

And the whole BBM?Sorry whats the big deal again? 5 years ago when there were no unlimited txt message plans sure it made sense but now? why do i limit myself to BBMing when i cant text and MMS just as easily to EVERYONE. with the advent of facebook apps and twitter and all this other ********, BBM has fallen behind hardcore.

the minute Android comes out with a BBM app i'm jumping ship.
 
Flashmonkey said:
I heard that too. I asked my friend who's a middle manager at microsoft and he hasn't heard any rumours filter down the pipe yet. I think it would be a great idea. That windows mobile OS is pretty slick.
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Microsoft only wants the patents that RIM holds. In fact, that's all anyone wants out of RIM now.
 
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LiNK666 said:
Not true, they want their enterprise solutions to get into the lucrative corporate/government world.
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Really? I thought that Blackberry market share was already going down, seeing as how many corporations have been actively incorporating iPhones/iPads etc into their existing network. Which is why, when the Playbook came out, RIM was really trying to drive home the message the "Blackberry is for professionals!!!!" message.

Blackberry products and market share seem like a sinking ship to me.
 
I think Blackberry tends to be more secure (both the devices and their infrastructure) and they have more technology to ensure messages go through in poor signal conditions than most other smartphones. I know my phone sends blank emails on occasion if my connection is really crappy.
 
strakka said:
Really? I thought that Blackberry market share was already going down, seeing as how many corporations have been actively incorporating iPhones/iPads etc into their existing network. Which is why, when the Playbook came out, RIM was really trying to drive home the message the "Blackberry is for professionals!!!!" message.

Blackberry products and market share seem like a sinking ship to me.
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My friend works for Rogers' marketing department and he was saying how hard Rogers was pushing the playbooks to corporations and companies. They're pretty much going out of their way with promotions, giveaways, etc. even though no one really wants them. If RIM wasn't a Canadian company, they'd be long gone.

What pisses me off the most is that at one point, RIM had a huge portion of the teen/young adult market. If they did things properly, I'm confident they'd still be on top. Everyone used to have a blackberry.
 
knowledge said:
What pisses me off the most is that at one point, RIM had a huge portion of the teen/young adult market. If they did things properly, I'm confident they'd still be on top. Everyone used to have a blackberry.
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I think that has more to do with the fact that they were the first ones to put email on your cell phone than much of anything else. From what I could tell, even many years ago, they were already behind as far as the "interesting" consumer technologies go. They spent too much time making phones that were basically today's version of a "dumb phone". When smartphones first came around a "dumb phone" would be one that does nothing but call. But then phones started to do pretty much everything while all RIMs were good for was messaging (so I'm calling them today's dumb phone even though, yes, you can still get phones that only call, but they are getting pretty rare). So their competition left them in the dust and now they're just taking awhile to die because they grew so big.
 
Red_Liner740 said:
i just changed jobs and they gave me a blackberry as the business phone....i farking hate it! There is nothing intuitive about it...it reminds me of my cheap chinese phone i bought for 50 bucks a few years back. To respond to a text message, you have to open the menu, select "reply", type your message in the proper field, hit the menu button again, scroll down to send and then its off! and the screen looks like a word document, very plain and ugly. At least the chinese phone had TV and FM antenna built in. lol.

Oh and in the last 2 weeks i dont know how many ppl i have dialed accidentally, or how many "notes" and "emails" i started to type cuz i forget to put it to stand by when i put it in my pocket.

And the whole BBM?Sorry whats the big deal again? 5 years ago when there were no unlimited txt message plans sure it made sense but now? why do i limit myself to BBMing when i cant text and MMS just as easily to EVERYONE. with the advent of facebook apps and twitter and all this other ********, BBM has fallen behind hardcore.

the minute Android comes out with a BBM app i'm jumping ship.
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don't blame the phone if you don't take the time to learn how to use it properly. With any OS 4.5+ it's as easy to reply to a message as it is on the iPhone or any Android device.

The only thing that RIM has going for it are the patents it holds, a keyboard corporate users are used to and it's Security. There are 70 Million people that still seem to work with them daily, so they're still in it. For how much longer....that's another story.
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