Interesting to see that RIM is going to release its new Playbook tablet early 2011 for under $500. Seems that the new way to be is to beat Apple on price. Even more curious is to see what happens with the iPad. Does Apple drop that too? Regardless of what happens on price, if the Bold is any indication of what Blackberry does to save itself, then no one is holding their breath on the new tablet. Could we eat our words? Absolutely. We shall see.
Ahh the fun of talking trash. When hearing stories like this I cannot help but to chuckle at the fact that no matter how many billions of dollars one makes, or how many products one sells, everyone enjoys talking a little trash. This does seem to be the case with Steve Jobs on a recent interview where he all but dismisses RIM’s ability to compete in the market, says that there is almost no one who can compete with them for real, and completely undermines the possibility that a 7″ tablet has any chance of survival. RIM disagrees. In
Apple’s iPad has no doubt been a home run for them. To be honest though, who cares about Apple? The real winner is us; all of us. Countless clients of ours, friends, and even people we look at a little funny, have told us that they love their iPad. Most use it a good chunk of the day as a primary communication tool. I was even shocked to see that I know more than a few folks that actually pay for the data plan so that they can use this everywhere. That being said now everyone wants in on
As we previously mentioned here, the writing has been on the wall for Blackberry for quite some time. Anytime the king of the hill stops protecting the peak, someone is bound to sneak up, whack them on the head, and unceremoniously push them down the mountain. Such is the case now as Android has officially passed RIM in US sales. According to the latest posts, the second quarter of this year has Android holding 33 percent of the market. Trailing behind is Blackberry at 28 and iPhones at 22 percent. This would be the first time since the fourth
Many people have asked us about the iPhone antenna issue. To be clear, we are not engineers so a scientific perspective we could not provide. However, we have some useful information on the bigger issue in the industry that we thought would be useful for our clients to read about. Here are a few things we found that you might also like to know. [1] Apple published a fantastic photo essay on a broad range of phones currently on the market with similar, or the same, issues. You can read that here. They very clearly outline the various phones,
In a world where we have to constantly decide paper or plastic, soup or salad, and which platform to bet the farm on (for the time being anyway) it is nice to know some things just take care of themselves. Such is the case with the platforms for mobile. While all of us have our favorites it is nice to know we now have proof. Mashable did not give me permission to use these images but since I am a) giving them credit and b) linking to their site’s article, I am hoping they take pity on me should
Folks we are back in the school yard. We are all 10 again and a crowd of kids has formed rather rambunctiously around the two bullies fighting in the center. On the one side they say this and on the other they say that. We have already spoken previously about Apple’s point of view here so it is only fair to tackle Adobe’s next. My problem with them is that they are either cognizant of the fact that they have a flimsy argument or they just really suck at fighting. You can check out the highlight reel of their