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I'm sorry for whinging without adding much substance to the article analysis, but I wish that companies like RIM would try to copy Apple's "cone of silence" rat
by raganwald 16y ago
I'm sorry for whinging without adding much substance to the article analysis, but I wish that companies like RIM would try to copy Apple's "cone of silence" rather than (or in addition to) copying their product's superficial appearances.
When Apple brought out Intel macs, the announcement was "We're running on Intel NOW." When they brought out the iPhone, the announcement was "It's running a cousin of OS X, NOW."
With RIM, I'm getting "There will be a tablet _Real Soon Now_." and "We will run everything on QNX _eventually_." If they can't ship it today, is there a prototype they can show? If there isn't a prototype, is there an SDK with an emulator so that developers can get started?
No?
This is dreadful, it's like a guy on his back in MMA getting his face punched in, and he's talking about how he's going to hit the weights and beat his opponent up in the rematch.
- elblanco 16y agoI'm sure a lot of it has to do with their enterprise customers. I'm sure 90% of them have never even heard of QNX let alone decided on some arbitrary policy they can begin to prepare to have meetings where they pretend to decide what kinds of ramifications it'll have on their IT infrastructure.