Is RIM heading to the dirt farm?
I’ve had a Berry since the very first one. I loved RIM’s products for years – but the company didn’t love me back.
In my opinion, pretty much everything coming out of RIM, now, is a disappointment. Their apps are a joke. Their OS are buggy. Their innovations aren’t innovative. They make dumb business decisions. They miss their own product deadlines.
I own an iPhone, and it gives me no problems. It does everything I want it to do, and then some.
There’s only one thing left that keeps me carrying a Blackberry, too.
The keyboard.
The iPhone’s on-screen keyboard is a disaster. It is only useable for a few words at a time, and then your head explodes.
The Blackberry keyboard, however, is still a marvel. It works. Their keyboard, in fact, is all that keeps the company from a trip to the dirt farm.
So that’s why I’m hoping the new Berrys – long, long delayed – continue to offer the best keyboard. If they don’t, I’m gone.
If they don’t, RIM will be gone, too, I think. And that would be a huge blow for innovation in this country.
What’s your take, O faithful readers?
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Important Summertime question
Up at the lake with assorted sons, daughter, mother, cousins and dogs. Out tubing, with abandon over big waves, and oil indicator – and, more seriously, engine temperature indicator – start flashing. When Merc 150-equipped Larson is going straightish – or pulling kids water skiing – no red flashing lights.
I think I’m getting false warning lights, due to all the tube-related zigs and zags.
Am I right? Am I wrong, and the boat should be towed to the deep part of the lake, and sunk? Over to you, team wk.com!
“Blowing smoke”
I’m not sure what that saying means. I think it was popular in the forties, or back before WW2.
In any event, I’ve heard from his own supporters the same thing over and over: that if he’s popular in two years’ time, the party would be “crazy” to let him go.
Heard that again today, in fact. Doesn’t sound much like a kept promise to me.
Anyway, happy birthday wishes to Mr. Rae. An uncharitable person would say he isn’t getting better, he’s just getting older. But I’m a nice guy, so I won’t say that.