Re:The Death Of RIM
by jawee on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:10PM
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You make these assumptions with that one mode is definitely superior to the other. I know several teenagers who have willingly traded iPhones for Blackberries because they didn't like the platform. I tried the Mac experience, but ended up needing to install Linux on my Mac Mini (after failing with KDE) because I couldn't stand the interface, package management, and so on. I used an iPod Touch for over a year and found it far less productive than Palm OS and Maemo devices I'd used for its purpose before.
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Apple took what they learned from iPod, created a business logic tied to their counter-culture. Generated and harvested it into loyalty.
RIM all but abandoned their core audience (business folk) to find the mass market and got lost in the middle doing poorly for both.
When RIM releases a new feature (app store, touch screen, etc) it is to mirror what is already being provided. "Me too!" isn't an encouraging sign for a market investment.