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T�nis Not really. I said people are foolish for buying a device just because they think it LOOKS cool; that's kind of like judging a book by its cover. (Just my opinion.) I also said I think many of the things many people think are "cool" are foolish. (Let's face it, people thought enron, maddoff, and subprime mortgages were cool, but that's another subject.)
But still, the analogy is applicable to the general climate of the topic and many topics on the forum. So many threads are about how BlackBerries should be more like androids and iphones, and how RIM ostensibly would/should like to be like those companies. I never said don't like a pinto or don't like a Cadillac. But don't tell the diesel manufacturer to make pintos or cadillacs.
Implying that the BlackBerry is the pinto, and the android is the Cadillac is propaganda. The Blackberry is the armored truck or freightliner tractor. Let the android be the pinto or the cadillac. Neither pinto nor cadillac will ever be the armored truck or tractor. Even if BlackBerry is merely a diesel benz sedan, it's still not the cadi gaser, nor should it be.