Originally Posted by
guttaperk ADGrant:
My impressions of RIM have come from following the platform and company over years and years. I've only recently started using one, but I've been getting to know the company for about a decade.
I'm accustomed to defending RIM from Android folk, but that's been elsewhere. There have been no anti-RIM attacks in this thread thus far as far as I've seen, so I'm not sure what you'd expect me to do.
How I hold the phone has had absolutely no effect on call reception on the 3G or 3Gs. Antennagate was much overhyped, and it was an iPhone 4 issue, not a 3G/ 3Gs issue.
iPhones for flexibility, by design. Blackberries, for superior, power-efficient, data-thrifty messaging, by design. From the very beginning, BB's were designed to be corporate messaging tools that made the most of Canada's expensive bandwidth. From the beginning, the iPhone was designed to have a huge screen with a virtual interface that could shift according to the needs of the application in use.
I think that your faith is touching. What you say might be true now, but it wasn't true a few years ago when leadership was dismissing touchscreens, the iPhone, and third-party application ecosystems. Over time, RIM leadership has had to change course completely. If they can admit error, even indirectly, you should be able to admit their error.
I don't live in the USA, don't rely completely on American sources, and don't have a US bias. I read Canadian analyses of RIM, and find them illuminating.
Nobody's going to feel awful. They're just going to report lower user satisfaction with Blackberry devices, and they'll be less loyal to the platform in the presence of reasonable alternatives�*precisely what is currently happening. Did you read the article(s) I cited?
I thought you'd watched a TED presentation on the topic� is it to be dismissed or ignored when convenient? More options are certainly not always better for most people.