They have a wide range of phones which are still selling. Therefore, the tablet is a small part of their overall business. Their phone line is their main business. And it's still selling, just like HP's computers (which all run Windows, since that apparently matters so much). That's the comparison I was making.
From the rosy picture you paint, it would seem then that RIM needs to do nothing. why bother with BB 10? They're doing just fine. Or are they?
By the way, who said that what OS HP's computers run matters in this discussion?
(By the way: they also run linux.)
Customers who want a basic smartphone which is very good at messaging and social networking are more than happy with their BlackBerries. Much of my family and most of my friends have them for this reason and have no complaints.
Meanwhile, millions more individuals are buying Android and iOS devices, at rates that far outpace RIM's sales rate. iOS is easy, simple to use, and excellent at social networking.
This customer base remains quite large, because not everyone cares about playing Angry Birds or downloading fart apps.
Ahhh, the common refrain of a RIM devotee. Well, I
was a former RIM user. I switched to iOS not for the fart apps, and I don't have angry birds on my iPhone or iPad. I did it because it actually integrates better with my employer's e-mail platform than RIM's solution does, believe it or not. As companies start realizing that connectivity has evolved beyond 2001, it actually became more cumbersome and expensive to keep RIM in the loop. Or, we could have secure, encrypted Push e-mail on iOS and Android devices with no added cost or infrastructure. And it's more intuitive, too.
But, if we go by your crude pushing of an inaccurate cliche, I guess
serious tablet users don't care about e-mail or BBM either, right? i mean, who needs
those trivial little things on their tablet?
I personally have an iPhone 4
Then either you should know better about its functionality and that it goes beyond fart apps and Angry Birds, or you're guilty of the crime you accuse others of.
It's had one major period of downtime in recent memory,
I remember
six in recent memory, actually. One in 2011, but there was also one in
2010, at least one in
2009, at least one in
2008, one in late
2007... and from the "another outage" headline from the 2007 article, it's easy to infer that this
wasn't the first time that happened, that year.
The infrastructure is far less reliable than RIM users are willing to admit, primarily because of how it's designed. How many times has virtually
every Blackberry stopped working for e-mail, messaging and data? We see above, at least 6 times, and it seems to happen on a relatively non-infrequent basis, actually. Contrast with: when has EVERY iPhone or EVERY Android, or even EVERY Nokia or Palm device for that matter, stopped working all at once?
If RIM were still selling the Curve 8310 to customers, you'd have a valid comparison. But they aren't. The Bold 9900 holds up very well to Apple and Android competitors.
You're welcome to that opinion, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on that.
Other people who've reviewed it agree. it's certainly a great phone if you're heavily invested and have drunken a lot of the RIM Kool-Aid. But to most who are accustomed to better, it's just more of the same.
