Ten Reasons Why BlackBerry Is Screwed

[what]

OS7 is a major problem, it was originally gonna be OS6.1 (only a minor update with virtually nothing new) but was bumped up to 7 purely for PR reasons :/

Yeah but I expect there would be a lot of moaning if people with older devices were told they couldn't upgrade from 6 to 6.1.

[revvo]

RIM will really have trouble to come back up if they keep pulling the same stunts over and over and over.

2. Couldn't agree more. Nothing innovating came out of RIM since the Bold 9000.

3. The Playbook was horribly marketed. "RUN ANDROID APPS.......... just not yet". And then no Email client? Seriously RIM? And best of all, Bridge works only with BB phones, so right there they're narrowing their target market to current BB customers.

4. Agreed again. Every decent app ain't free and the price seems overinflated compared to on Android or IOS.

8. I was a BB owner, and yeah I moved to Android. I don't miss my BB :D

9. This is true. We have iPads at work to present and demo our product to business customers as a mobile "on the go" product. Not a single Playbook despite all our business phones is the Torch because we use BES

10. Everyone about to move away from Blackberry is awaiting for the QNX iteration on the mobile phones. Where is it RIM? Keep pushing it further, and you'll keep losing customers to the quickly updating Android and marketing strengths of Apple.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm quite happy with my BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. For the price I paid, it's worked the way I expected it to. In my opinion, RIM's main issue is pricing. Their phones are obviously a little behind in specs and that should reflect in the pricing. I think they'd be in a better position if their phones were $50-$100 cheaper.

[neufuse Veteran]

Even Obama move from BB to Apple. He loves Apple technology now.

please give me a credible news story that shows this, he never even had a blackberry as president... he had a supped up windows CE phone that had all kinda security stuff on it from the gov including secure communications, and they made it just act like BB for him... the gov hasn't approved iPhone for classified use so he'd not be using one for that

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Blackberry is still around? I haven't seen anyone using them for a couple years now.

Either the market is completely different in the US or you don't get out very much.

My thoughts as well. I see plenty of BlackBerry devices around the place.

[HoochieMamma]

i have a corporate-supplied Blackberry and i hate the thing. i cant complain b/c it's free and i dont have a cell phone bill. RIM just wont reinvent itself... theyre going to fail b/c they refuse to revolutionize their product line. as mentioned above, the constant clones are boooring. Tiny screens, stupid scroll pad, no apps. it's terrible.

This applies to me at work too, plus tons of others saying the same thing at work too :yes:

[+Byt Subscriber¹]

Loved my Bold when i first got it, for work emails its been fantastic and outlook syncing.

I originally wanted an iphone but once i told tmobile how much email i use.. they said i shouldnt go for an iphone and go for a blackberry (much cheaper aswell) this was 2 years ago.

Thank God my contract ends soon though, i am moving to android :)

[game_over]

I hate BlackBerry, we use them in work as they are issued by the local authority, i am sick to the back teeth of my 2 bosses coming to me with problems or general complaints about how bad they.. but we dont pay the bill so they got to be used.. they both recently got ipads for everything other than calls and i've not heard a whisper from them since.

All PlayBook advertising i have seen has been a dig at apple about the use of flash, they haven't really mentioned anything else.. i don't think that is going to be a selling point for anyone.

[jakem1]

I hate BlackBerry, we use them in work as they are issued by the local authority, i am sick to the back teeth of my 2 bosses coming to me with problems or general complaints about how bad they.. but we dont pay the bill so they got to be used.. they both recently got ipads for everything other than calls and i've not heard a whisper from them since.

All PlayBook advertising i have seen has been a dig at apple about the use of flash, they haven't really mentioned anything else.. i don't think that is going to be a selling point for anyone.

I read recently that Westminster Council are giving their staff a choice between BB and WP7 with quite a large proportion choosing the latter. Why don't you see if your council will consider offering a choice?