BlackBerry CEO Says U.S. Government Should Force Apple to Expand iMessage to Other Platforms

[twigman08]

EDIT: Oops, originally quoted the wrong person.

if I remember correctly, when Steve Jobs introduced imessage and Facetime he said it was going to be an open platform. What happened to that?

I do remember him saying that about FaceTime, but not for iMessage.
Though, that is a fair point on FaceTime: what did happen to FaceTime? Did Apple take their ball and go home? Did other companies just want to try to compete? Was Apple too strict? Or maybe he was just talking about it would be open...in the Apple World (could be used on any Apple device pretty much)

 

[vvswarup]

No.
My comment was that when you're on the bottom, you whine a lot, which Apple did toward Microsoft in the 90's.

Apple whined a lot in the 90s about Microsoft, sure. SJ famously called Microsoft a copycat and derided its products. But Apple never said that the US government should force Microsoft to expand Office to other platforms.

Let BlackBerry show that keeping iMessages iOS-exclusive is anticompetitive. And people on this forum are taking too many liberties with the term "anticompetitive." I don't know the precise, legal definition of anticompetitive but I'm quite sure that there is no way I can think of that Apple's refusal to expand iMessage to other platforms can be construed as anticompetitive.

 

[John.B]

You don't read the internet much do you? http://m.imore.com/text-issues-switching-iphone-android-heres-fix

Tons of people who switched from iOS to android have had problems with not getting texts from people with iPhones. A lot of my friends have had this problem.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

FYI

 

[Keebler]

Untrue:

the "joke" you are talkig about, Jimmy B, actually kept the hockey idea seperate from the business of BBRY.

he also (if you bothered to read a link i've posted earlier) was trying to change BBRY earlier, but was forced out by his Co-CEO who didn't agree with him on the future of BBRY. Ballsilli wanted to move the company in the direction of software, services, and making BBM a full time replacement for SMS 5 years ago, but Lazardis wanted no part of it. Jimmy B eventually walked away from the company he helped found because the board ended up siding with Mike Lazardis and Thosrtein Heinz in following the handset business.

Then they actually named Thorstein Heinz new CEO after that, who continued with the failing strategy of being a hardware company first. Letting their software and services side of things, (The Side jimmy B wanted to push) fall into disservice and disrepair.

Thor only last year got ousted after it was proven that he and Lazardis were wrong and Chen, the new guy who made the news today, has gone back to Jim B's original software/services ideal in the last 6 months or so.

So, you're pretty inaccurate in your history lesson. The guy who was chasing the NHL was actually correct in the first place and the problems BBRY has encountered was because they chose to ingore him

With all due respect LordVic, the fact that Basillie was even trying to get a hockey team is the point. He shouldn't have even been entertaining the thought. Successful companies have their CEOs live, eat and breath their products. It should be all consuming.

When it's not, is when things like technology fly by leaving you in the dust because the eye was out the window looking at the pretty clouds. He may have been shot down by his co-CEO, but his attention was diverted instead of concentrating on what it should have been.

 

[PrimeMatrix]

Here's an idea, Blackberry, make something innovative and stop trying to succeed by pulling others back! Just go away already, blackberry.

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The fact that this guy pushes for net neutrality, automatically makes me really dislike him! He is obviously one of those guys who seeks to succeed off the hard work and innovation of others! Super pathetic and super lousy!