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"Maybe R.I.M. is just overextended. After all, it has just introduced three major new phones — Flip, Bold, Storm — in two months, each with a different software

"Maybe R.I.M. is just overextended. After all, it has just introduced three major new phones — Flip, Bold, Storm — in two months, each with a different software edition. Quality-control problems are bound to result; the iPhone 3G went through something similar." The simple explanation is that the consumer market is more than willing to tolerate bad quality for the latest and greatest. As everyone will remember iphone OS 2.0 shipped with many similar problems yet Apple still sold many millions of iPhone 3Gs. RIM is obviously well-aware of the issues people are having, but that won't change the fact they too will sell huge number of these this holiday season.

ericsilva 18y ago
I don't think that the iPhone 2.0 software had "many similar problems." It had some minor ones, but nothing like what Mr. Pogue described in this article. I have not used a Blackberry Storm, but it the article makes it clear that there are a number of fundamental problems with the user interface. There were a few hickups, crashing, etc. with the iPhone 2.0 software, but nothing significant has changed about the UI design (only the underlying system).
- martythemaniak 18y ago
  What he mentions isn't fundamental, but half-baked, like not having bouncy scrolling or flicks or being laggy. Something can't be fundamentally broken if it can be fixed with a simple update in a few months. Other things he mentions are personal opinion (ie he doesn't like suretype very much) or are things present on the iPhone, for example: "It can take two full seconds for the screen image to change when you turn it 90 degrees, three seconds for a program to appear, five seconds for a button-tap to register" Take your iphone, open up contacts and count how many seconds it takes from the tap to being able to scroll or click. ~5s on mine, and I remember it being worse with OS 2.0. And what about switching orientations in ipod? At least a second unless it happens to get stuck and not rotate at all.
  - unalone 18y ago
    The difference here is one of perception. Apple loads their program IMAGE instantly, so it looks like things are going smoothly even when it's taking time. It was a smart move on their part. Does rotating really have lag? It's pretty much instantaneous for me on a Touch running 2.1.
ardit33 18y ago
The Storm is good hardware wise, but crappy software wise. It uses BB OS 4.7, which is the 4.x code base with some improvements, basically a 4+ years old OS, NOT designed for multimedia and the average consumer in mind. Giving Rim's history, I wouldn't be suprised if they are working on a brand new 5.0 OS, and they will release it for the current phones (BOLD and STORM). After all they did the same, where many devices with 3.6 could upgrade to 4.0 for free.

ericsilva 18y ago

I don't think that the iPhone 2.0 software had "many similar problems." It had some minor ones, but nothing like what Mr. Pogue described in this article. I have not used a Blackberry Storm, but it the article makes it clear that there are a number of fundamental problems with the user interface. There were a few hickups, crashing, etc. with the iPhone 2.0 software, but nothing significant has changed about the UI design (only the underlying system).

martythemaniak 18y ago
What he mentions isn't fundamental, but half-baked, like not having bouncy scrolling or flicks or being laggy. Something can't be fundamentally broken if it can be fixed with a simple update in a few months. Other things he mentions are personal opinion (ie he doesn't like suretype very much) or are things present on the iPhone, for example: "It can take two full seconds for the screen image to change when you turn it 90 degrees, three seconds for a program to appear, five seconds for a button-tap to register" Take your iphone, open up contacts and count how many seconds it takes from the tap to being able to scroll or click. ~5s on mine, and I remember it being worse with OS 2.0. And what about switching orientations in ipod? At least a second unless it happens to get stuck and not rotate at all.
- unalone 18y ago
  The difference here is one of perception. Apple loads their program IMAGE instantly, so it looks like things are going smoothly even when it's taking time. It was a smart move on their part. Does rotating really have lag? It's pretty much instantaneous for me on a Touch running 2.1.

ardit33 18y ago

The Storm is good hardware wise, but crappy software wise. It uses BB OS 4.7, which is the 4.x code base with some improvements, basically a 4+ years old OS, NOT designed for multimedia and the average consumer in mind. Giving Rim's history, I wouldn't be suprised if they are working on a brand new 5.0 OS, and they will release it for the current phones (BOLD and STORM). After all they did the same, where many devices with 3.6 could upgrade to 4.0 for free.