There are weak argumentation and then there are the three logical argument you?re about to read . First , are you quick for the RIM rejoinder ? ! Hello ? Is this affair on ? secondly , does the size of the iPhone 5 show Apple?s high-handedness ? Dur , do you have to even ask ? And , finally , hope you like Windows Phone , because your local electric cell carrier is apparently live on to put you in a headlock until you grease one’s palms one .
Won?t stop believing
We all be intimate disaffirmation is not a river in Egypt , but has anyone checked to see if it?s a river in Canada ?
spell for IT World Canada , Tim Collins impart us?10 solid reasons flange will make a comeback?(tip atomic number 8 ? the antlers toThe Loop ) .
Oh , Tim , beloved . Don?t .
I?m the only diehard in my office who is still frisk a Blackberry .
Get help .
Going into 2011 , everyone at my fellowship used Blackberrys . We were huge fans . We BBM?d each other constantly . We even blogged about how much we loved our Blackberrys . Then RIM started to nosedive and one by one , my staff part showing up at the office with iPhones .
The cause RIM take off to nosedive was because its other customer got fed up wait for a speech sound that didn?t flavour like it was calling from 2003 . It?s not the other way around . You get that , right ?
Hope the formatting of this pillar doesn?t get jockey up on the text - only mobile version you?re looking at .
( inexpensive lip jokes ! The Macalope buy them by the receipts at Costco ! )
In bitchiness of its challenges , I still consider that RIM will make a comeback . It?s not just desirous thinking .
No , the Macalope imagines there?s also alotof hallucinogenics affect .
1 ) developer believe in BB10.RIM has a bent for motivating some of the most brilliant minds on the planet . I personally know several developers who are still work for RIM and who are not the least chip interested in jumping ship .
RIM?s comeback will be fuel by the most powerful force in the universe : anecdotes !
2 ) teenager and message .
Is there some coming explosion in the population of teenager in the world that the Macalope is incognizant of ?
3 ) flange has always had the good keyboard . My wager is that the genius engineers at RIM are going to have the best touchscreen keyboard on the market place .
As the locution proceed about cameras , the best one is the one you have with you . And the keyboards everyone has with them are on their iPhones and Android machine .
4 ) They reek the umber .
It?s nice that RIM now has management that , unlike the Undynamic Duo , recognizes there?s a problem . But it doesn?t aid that you could smell the chocolate if you?re lie on the storey with your full organic structure wrap in Saran wrapper .
5 ) Licensing . The BB10 operating system is being license for other ironware like Microsoft Windows Phone 8 .
Agreed . RIM?s most likely path for success is as a shell ship’s company licensing its engineering to other company that can really make and embark modern phones .
6 ) Cash flow + growing subsist drug user floor . They still have $ 2 billion in cash and a drug user al-Qaeda of 80 million that grew by 2 million last after part .
RIM?s revenue for the last quarter grew from the prior poop , but is still down well from last year . The path they?re gain users is by fire sales event .
7 ) They dominate the mellow - security corner market place .
Indeed . Enjoy your niche view .
- Leaked eyeglasses .
RIMisawesome at vaporware . The Macalope lovingly think back how the PlayBook was altogether go away to own the iPad . Until it shipped .
Do they still even make the PlayBook ?
9 ) Incremental Improvements are boring . The last iPhone had only incremental improvement .
You recognise what?s really boring ? mind to RIM yammer on about how awesome its next products are going to be , if only the marketplace would just slack down and wait for it .
10 ) The competition is distract . Samsung and Apple are embroil in sound conflict that won?t end any time presently .
It?s somewhat ample having a RIM fan narrate you Apple and Samsung can?t walk and chew gum at the same metre as RIM keeps turn on over its excessively big merry andrew shoes .
I?m excited to watch RIM pull off the self-aggrandising comeback of the C .
Uh , OK , but you don?t have money on this , do you ?
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Or ? would you like to ?
Bad impression
Does it ever chance on you as odd that the Macalope can determine fresh gist to deplume his antlers into every twenty-four hour period ? How is it that pretty much every day of the calendar week there is someone who is eager to step up ( down ? ) and write something stupefied about Apple ? And how do these citizenry think it reflects on them ?
The Macalope doesn?t have an answer , and he?s not sure he wants to look a gift cavalry in the lip . After all , it?s task security measure .
Which take us to hedge store manager Doug Kass , who is here to recite us about?Apple?s Cycle of Abuse . ?
The genuine abuse , Doug , is reading your Apple ? analysis . ?
Woz?s criticism , which Kass quotes , is over the screenland size of the iPhone 5 .
I wish well they had made a small and a prominent version of the iPhone ; that would have been great for me .
The iPhone 5 is literally smaller than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Do the math . Only the screen is larger . Now , possibly he desire a 3.5 - inch screen iPhone 5 that would be even little , but Apple?s strategy is to make one current generation of the iPhone . And , oh , hey , look , it?s forge moderately well . But Woz wants a crib .
Kass :
Arrogance has been the subject of some of my criticism recently on Apple . ( It is also often the downfall of many companies . )
Really . hauteur . And here the Macalope think it was things like sales , revenues , and earnings . Who knew that business analysis was really more about psychology than fundamentals ?
Reminder : This valet manages a hedgerow fund .
So , Kass?s conclusion is that it?s haughtiness that drives Apple?s decision to lend features on its own terms , when they make sense , or else of jamming them into earpiece just to check them off on a list . Don?t look for battery life to catch up to covert sizes , just discontinue transport Retina displays or make a giant be sick phone !
Ohhh , you have in mind there?s a trade - off and this isn?t a free , all - you - can - use up candy store ?
Also , if you believe the current Apple pattern element is the sound answer and Apple won?t or can?t do a larger - screen equipment ( and will stand by to one phone at a time for cost reasons ) , what is the next iPhone going to have that will really count and get client activated to purchase it and help the company gain extra share ?
Is gaining portion Apple?s destination ? Seems like its goal is to make a crapload of money .
Is the mass of the innovation done ? And , yes , I know it?s soft to say that Apple always thinks of something unexampled , but the realness is that the last few iterations of iPhone have been evolutionary and not revolutionary?and , arguably , they now incarcerate the grocery .
You could always argue they remand behind the marketplace . multitude have been doing that for five years . The first iPhone only had EDGE ! It didn?t have a replaceable battery ! Total deal killer whale !
It?s astounding how some analyst will simply hang to this checkbox mentality no matter how many times we level out that Apple doesn?t function that elbow room . And the troupe doesn?t seem any worsened for not trying to get into a stupid subdivision race .
Another issue I would raise is how inimical Apple?s suppliers have been to their employee .
Ofcourseyou would . After all , endeavor to throw off everything against the rampart to see what stick is your shtick .
theorise a Wal - Mart supplier was criminate of these conditions .
Suppose the company thatlocked its own workers into stores overnightwas accused of havingsuppliersthat mistreated employees ? Gosh , what would the ramifications be ? !
In my opinion , Apple is hypocritical?the company is every bit theabusive monopolistthat it once accused Microsoft MSFT of being ?
That link is to James B. Stewart?s hi - larious bit word of advice that Mapgate could elicit antimonopoly concern , a piece that Glenn Fleishman ? sorry , that?sJeopardy - winnerGlenn Fleishman ? dexterously disassembledwhen it was published .
Hang on , though . Kass isn?t done with his ridiculous bombast . Turns outyou?repart of the job , too :
And Apple?s client are also hypocritical by continuing to grease one’s palms Apple?s intersection and thereby back this abusive deportment .
Right . We should totally be buying poppycock from party that aren?t so arrogant as to send phones with 4 - inch screens in a 16:9 expression proportion and whose supplier are all located in the worker?s paradise known as Magical Fairy Candycaneland .
Saturday Special: Good luck with that
Good tidings , Windows Phone fans !
What ? Oh . Fan . Sorry , the Macalope get a small carry away .
But effective intelligence , uh , Roger ! Nokia CEO and Microsoft plant Stephen Elop tell Windows Phone?s ascendance is jell to find any day now !
Like ? RIGHT NOW !
No ?
What about ? NOW !
Still nothing ?
So , when exactly is this theorise to happen ?
? Nokia boss : ` Surface headphone ? and Apple - Android veneration will kick - start Windows Phone . ?
Ah , the ol ? ? postman will just squeeze Windows Phones in people?s pockets and push them out the doorway ? strategy !
But we?ve seen this picture . Back in April , one of the Cassandras of Wall Street snort some fumes in the cave where they communicate with the flighty and vengeful gods that control the stock mart and declared thatAPPLE WAS DOOOMEDbecause carrier were going to turn to Windows Phone in 2012 .
How?s that figure out out so far ?
? Nokia Lumia sale fall 28 percent in Q3 to 2.9 million , North American sales cut in one-half . ?
Oops . And , permit the Macalope get this straight person , Elop welcome Microsoft shipping its own phone ?
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cipher toter ? fears over the Android and Apple duopoly will force the birth of the Windows Phone ecosystem that he?s depend the Finnish company?s future on?an ecosystem he conceive would do good from Microsoft?s presence .
Do Steve Ballmer and Andrew Lees ever indicate over who drive to work Elop?s mouth and who gets to move his manus ?
Elop said operator had made decisions to battle competition ? ? hit products ? in the past times and will be capable to do so again once Nokia send its Lumia 820 and flagship Lumia 920 .
This time it?ll work for trusted !
? I think [ a Microsoft smartphone would be ] certainly a stimulant drug to the ecosystem . ?
Oh , jeez . Microsoft , just purchase Nokia already and put the pitiable guy out of his wretchedness . It?s like look on a cat play with a baby bird .
Look , the Macalope like Windows Phone . If he couldn?t have an iPhone ( tremor ) , he?d get a Windows Phone which , he doesn?t mind severalize you , isreallyweird to him . But there it is . So he doesn?t get why it?s not resonating with people .
But it?snotresonating with people . Of naturally , Elop?s say what he has to say , but that doesn?t make it less pathetic .
