Comments on: Don’t count out RIM in US, 4 top carriers to sell new BlackBerry 10 phones http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/dont-count-out-rim-in-us-4-top-carriers-to-sell-new-blackberry-10-phones/ Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hundoman http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/dont-count-out-rim-in-us-4-top-carriers-to-sell-new-blackberry-10-phones/#comment-1297806 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:08:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601167#comment-1297806 The world’s cell phone users, businesses, governments, and developers need RIM to have a homerun with Blackberry 10 OS and ecosystem.

Blackberries are all about productivity and not about games or consumerism like Android and iOS products are and always will be.

Apple iOS is the oldest, least multitasking of all the smart phone or tablet OS’s. Let’s not even talk about the rip-off that are the costs for all the needed dongles and docks which are not needed on any other smart phone and Mobile Device Management just flat out doesn’t work on any iOS products and Apple has no corporate AppleID formula for businesses to manage 100′s or 1,000′s of iOS devices.

Google’s Android OS is just a mess for developers as you have no standards to develop for screen size or hardware or even which version of Android OS. Android also has no central clearing house for applications from a single store so you can get rouge applications easily into corporate environments via the BYOD model.

Why is RIM the only company that lets you used your smart phone and tablet together? I mean with my RIM tablet and Blackberry phone I get FREE internet on my tablet from my blackberry via Bluetooth with no carrier costs, when a call comes in on my smart phone it shows on my tablet who is calling or the phone number, any file on my blackberry I can open up on my tablet, when I open an email on my phone I have the choice of opening the attachment or web link up on my tablet, my phone acts as a remote control and keyboard for my tablet for doing presentations for people.

Looking to see what happens with the Windows 8 phones (not RT) and devices as that looks pretty promising with the ability to manage them in Windows AD as part of a domain.

]]> By: Gregg Borodaty http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/dont-count-out-rim-in-us-4-top-carriers-to-sell-new-blackberry-10-phones/#comment-1297779 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:25:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601167#comment-1297779 Unless there’s a significant incentive for people to switch away from Android and iOS (which I haven’t seen yet), I don’t see how RIM makes a come back. In other words, RIM would have to practically give the phone away to buy back market share, which Nokia’s trying to do with Lumia 920 with little success.

RIM will be left to fight it out with Windows Phone for third place scraps in the US market.

]]> By: Seb H Miller http://gigaom.com/2013/01/11/dont-count-out-rim-in-us-4-top-carriers-to-sell-new-blackberry-10-phones/#comment-1297714 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:52:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=601167#comment-1297714 Carriers like it, Devs are loving the support they’re getting, bloggers are dying to release ANY bit of information blocked by NDAs. Of course time will tell, but January 30th can’t come soon enough for this tech enthusiast. – Cheers

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