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"ancient history, 4 years ago, what's the point of this now?" The point is that 4 years after the introduction of the iPhone, RIM still hasn't managed to ship
by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
"ancient history, 4 years ago, what's the point of this now?"
The point is that 4 years after the introduction of the iPhone, RIM still hasn't managed to ship a phone that competes with the iPhone.
And since they have a long way to go with QNX, I don't expect RIM to catch up in the next two years.
Which raises the question: what has RIM been doing the last 4 years?
- potatolicious 16y agoIt's also important to note that Google has been able to ship a mostly-competent competitor to the iPhone, and is improving incredibly quickly. Palm, a company with vastly inferior resources and shallower pockets than RIM, has been able to also. Both of these companies were largely reacting to the success of the iPhone and got sideswiped much like RIM. Unlike RIM, though, both companies recovered quickly and were able to ship compelling products (though not all commercially successful). RIM hasn't shipped squat that would even begin to compete with the user experience on iPhone. Hell, RIM hasn't shipped anything that I'd use over the first-gen iPhone, much less iPhone 4.
- pedanticfreak 16y agoRIM has been the entrenched market leader. Abandoning all that made it successful would be equivalent to the Digg redesign. Instead of placing bets on RIM's comeback play we'd be analyzing the wreckage of RIM's sudden implosion. Google and Palm had no users. They could afford to completely change focus and abandon the existing user base.