Comments on: After a rise and fall, BlackBerry 10 is RIM’s last, best comeback attempt

By: saif

saif — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:01:51 +0000

Granting its users free browsing, no data charges for its chat programs PLUS the security & privacy it offers – my goodness, I will support them during their evolution.

Great job RIM, you’re in a league of your own.

By: JGsmartypants

JGsmartypants — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:40:52 +0000

Alex, I think RIM has a powerful weapon in its arsenal: the ability to fallback on Android apps for the local bank, the shopping mall, and the other apps that are too small in scale but too great in number for RIM to be able to court. They can get those in store with minimal effort. This is of course inferior to a dedicated BB10 app, but it also superior to no app.

As BB10 grows, we would hopefully see more devs wanting to make a superior experience by going full native. I expect Jolla to follow a similar strategy, and I think it is the best possible strategy they can take.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:27:27 +0000

“It stays relevant in a market where nearly 6 billion people don’t yet have a smartphone”. That figure is notorious. I guess your assuming every age from birth. The bottom line is RIM is OUT! They struggled with the playbook, and was suppose to gain significant market share and it didnt. It was undeveloped and they scrambled and unable to compete with the current tablets. I envisage the blackberry 10 to be the same. I use to own the blackberry and use it for business, but switched to the iphone. The blackberry was dated and the amount of apps was nowhere comparable to the Android or Iphone APP store. Im sure the blackberry 10 will be competitive, but people want more apps and more functionality with their phone. This is where blackberry falls short. If they want to be competitive, its not in the phone, but what the phone can offer the consumer (ie. more apps etc). I wish them luck, they have a steep hill to climb.

By: Mark Grady

Mark Grady — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:03:23 +0000

Why does everyone think RIM is a one-trick pony?

Handsets are one part of the business but the majority of its operation is its infrastructure services, the part of the business that’s not really seen any adverse problems, despite the well publicised outages it’s had occasionally over the past couple of years (outages that cause more outrage than when the carriers have outages, stopping not only BBM,email, et cetera, but also basic voice and text communications, but that don’t generate anywhere near as much ire and bile, bizarrely).

RIM aren’t just launching new handsets, they’re launching the new BlackBerry Enterprise Services 10 as well, which will include VoIP services, multi-device management (including iOS and Android devices) and a whole host of other features, ultimately, in a single management environment, even allowing legacy BES5 systems to be managed from there too.

Whilst businesses and governments want secure email and messaging delivery to the standard RIM currently provide you’ll see the BlackBerry brand still alive and kicking as no-one else in the market offers the same levels of security and resilience. Let’s face it, BlackBerry is the only device and infrastructure certified for use by heads of state.

By: kamusime

kamusime — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:48:03 +0000

Thenx kevin for that artical..jst cant wait t c hw ee bb 10 wil perfom in ths tyt market…bt 1 bold truth is that blackbery stl has its loyal clients hopely ths wl strengthen eir hopes..

By: Gregg Borodaty

Gregg Borodaty — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:58:44 +0000

I’m sure BlackBerry will get a little bump after Wednesday’s event, if nothing else, from their loyal followers. So in the short term, the safe bet is that they see some success. The big questions is what they are able to do to sustain any momentum they might generate. For starters, they better shorten their product release cycle to less than 2 years between iterations.

I’m still in the camp of too little, too late, but time will tell. It will certainly be interesting to watch, at least from the outside looking in.

By: Andrew Geleff

Andrew Geleff — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:12:26 +0000

I’m really glad to hear that the BB10 keyboard is up to par with the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, which I’ve always preferred for capacitive text entry. Android keyboards have always been a struggle for me to get used to, and I find that they’ll lag behind the words that I’m actually typing more often than not. I’m a rapid typist on my smartphones and I want something that will keep up. If the BlackBerry Z10 can hold up with my typing speed, I may go the full touch route. If it can’t, you’ll find me in the QWERTY arena. Either way, I’m going to own a BlackBerry 10 device. For how long is the question.

By: turbulentsilverfox

turbulentsilverfox — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:56:41 +0000

Whatever anyone says about Blackberry – I still maintain to this day that my old Blackberry 8800 was probably the best phone I ever owned, for functionality, battery life, longevity of the hardware etc.

Great legacy.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:21:55 +0000

Totally valid points, Alex. My concern is that we won’t have a 3rd platform get to 15 / 20 percent of share. For every developer, that traction / sales percentage will vary of course, but if we don’t have devs take a chance at some point, these lower selling platforms will never take root. It’s a chicken & egg problem for sure.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:19:50 +0000

Great to hear, Erik; thanks!