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If Apple don't launch LTE with the 4S/5 in September then it is probably going to be a year away and the first qnx blackberries are likely to have it in the first half of the year.I have a sneaking suspicion that you are correct--Apple will be a bit late to the 4G party. But not as late as RIM, is my prediction.
RIM is making lateness a new artform.07-18-11 02:30 PM - They better be able to do more than just phones at any one time. The R&D and hardware for this box is already done, the OS would be pretty close to the Playbook except it will need to have a remote input. Just thought of another additional feature that this box could do, add a USB camera and VTC on your TV to other Playbooks or people with these boxes, or Corporate BES with these devices all encrytped. Lot of possibilities with a box like this and you could make it to where it could be flexible enough to use it in a corporate and/or consumer role. Give it presentation and secure VTC capability, but make it flexible with apps for consumer to add Netflix, VTC, media hub, streaming from Playbook, etc.What's wrong with it is they should be focusing on releasing their new phones with QNX. Or how about just ANY new phones? You know...that thing EVERYONE is whinning about for the last 8 months?
They are not going to get a QNX phone out before the new year no matter if they devote all their resources to it. 2012 is going to be it. OS7 phones are already well into production and they'll want to sell as many as they can between when they are released and QNX phone come's out. Not what some people may want to hear, but it is what it is. They have more than one engineer tied up in the basements in Waterloo, even though it seems like they only have one with their slowness.07-18-11 03:13 PM - You are correct sir. I apologize for thinking RIM had engineers and developers who were employed for the explicit purpose of working through these types issues in a timely manner.
It was also silly of me to think that 12+ months (since the announcement of the PB and QNX OS) was sufficient time to have a QNX phone running on a smaller screen and to be available to users. Of course they need another 12 months to get the OS working on a smaller screen. While we're at it, give em another 8-10 months for email and droid player. There's no sense of urgency at all as we all know. Maybe for the PB 1 year anniversary, we'll see native email and droid player
I'm beginning to wonder if the guys working for RIM are sitting around with programming manuals next to their computers trying to figure "this whole QNX thing" out...
Every day, they learn something new about QNX and they take a break for a few hours to discuss how awesome that "thing" is that they discovered and what they can do with it.
There are some brilliant programmers out there. If they don't work for RIM, maybe RIM should consider outsourcing the work to competent people? Just an idea...
It's not like QNX is a new platform to RIM. They acquired the company who already had staff with the utmost expertise on the programming language. Secondly, this isn't an acquisition from 3 weeks ago. RIM acquired QNX over 15 months ago. So let's take a look at what they've done so far with QNX. In 12 months since acquisition, they managed to design a tablet and have an OS built from scratch with a droid player (in beta version) and since then, they have not been able to produce software for email nor finish testing on the droid player? What happened? Did all the QNX staff get a 3 month vacation after the PB release? Am I to understand that it takes 12 months to design a tablet and build an entire OS from the ground up for it and from there it will take an additional 12 months to do the same for a phone because this wasn't being worked on simultaneously?
And what’s the explanation, they couldn’t work on it because of battery technology or hardware limitations during the conception of the idea? This isn’t Ironman where Tony Stark’s father is leaving him a video with instructions to create a new element in the future because of technological limitations of his time.
Can someone take the reigns and get this company in line again...07-19-11 10:34 AM
