We all acknowledge denial is not a river in Egypt , but has anyone checked to see if it ’s a river in Canada ?
write for IT World Canada , Tim Collins brings us“10 upstanding reasons RIM will make a comeback”(tip oxygen ’ the antlers toThe Loop ) .
Oh , Tim , honey . Do n’t .
I ’m the only diehard in my office who is still sporting a Blackberry .
Get aid .
choke into 2011 , everyone at my caller used Blackberrys . We were huge fans . We BBM’d each other constantly . We even blogged about how much we have it away our Blackberrys . Then RIM started to nosedive and one by one , my stave started showing up at the office with iPhones .
The understanding RIM set out to nosedive was because its other customer got feed up waitress for a earphone that did n’t look like it was calling from 2003 . It ’s not the other way around . You get that , right ?
go for the formatting of this column does n’t get screwed up on the school text - only mobile reading you ’re looking at .
( Cheap RIM jokes ! The Macalope buys them by the gross at Costco ! )
In spite of its challenges , I still believe that RIM will make a counter . It ’s not just wishful thinking .
No , the Macalope imagines there ’s also alotof hallucinogenics involved .
1 ) developer believe in BB10.RIM has a knack for motivate some of the most glorious minds on the planet . I in person know several developers who are still working for RIM and who are not the least bit interested in jumping ship .
RIM ’s comeback will be fueled by the most powerful force in the universe : anecdotes !
2 ) Teenagers and messaging .
Is there some amount explosion in the universe of teenager in the world the Macalope is unaware of ?
3 ) lip has always had the best keyboard . My bet is that the mastermind engineer at RIM are become to have the better touchscreen keyboard on the market .
As the expression choke about tv camera , the best one is the one you have with you . And the keyboard everyone has with them are on their iPhones and Android machine .
4 ) They smell the coffee .
It ’s courteous that RIM now has management that , unlike the Undynamic Duo , recognize there ’s a problem . But it does n’t assist that you could reek the umber if you ’re lying on the trading floor with your entire body enclose in Saran wrap .
5 ) Licensing . The BB10 operating organisation is being certify for other hardware like Microsoft Windows Phone 8 .
agree . RIM ’s most probable way for success is as a shell caller licensing its technologies to other companies that can actually make and ship modern phones .
6 ) immediate payment flow + growing existing user base . They still have $ 2 billion in hard cash and a drug user base of 80 million that grew by 2 million last quarter .
RIM ’s revenue for the last tail grow from the anterior quarter , but is still down considerably from last twelvemonth . The way they ’re gaining substance abuser is by ardour sales event .
7 ) They command the high - security measures niche grocery .
Indeed . Enjoy your niche position .
- Leaked specs .
RIMisawesome at vaporware . The Macalope fondly commend how the PlayBook was totally going to own the iPad . Until it shipped .
Do they still even make the PlayBook ?
9 ) Incremental Improvements are deadening . The last iPhone had only incremental improvement .
You know what ’s really deadening ? Listening to RIM yammer on about how awesome its next Cartesian product are go to be , if only the market would just slow down and wait for it .
10 ) The contest is distracted . Samsung and Apple are embroiled in sound battles that wo n’t end any prison term soon .
It ’s pretty rich make a RIM fan tell you Apple and Samsung ca n’t take the air and jaw gum tree at the same time as RIM keeps tripping over its overly large clown shoes .
I ’m excited to watch RIM pull off the boastful comeback of the hundred .
Uh , OK , but you do n’t have money on this , do you ?
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Or … would you like to ?
