New BlackBerry Coming Out
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Here’s an article about a new BlackBerry supposed to be a response to the iPhone:
RIM’s iPhone Killer: Not Terrible! But No iPhone
I suppose AAPL has set the bar in some respects with the iPhone, but it’s far too early to suggest that RIM ought to be thinking of an iPhone killer. RIM knows who their target market is, having been born serving c-level executives and the type of demanding customer in the financial services industry. In fact, if I were to hand an iPhone over to any of the people I know who use their BlackBerry as their primary computing device, it would look like a massive maglev train flying off the tracks.
But I just got off the phone with Furqan Nazeeri, CEO of Virid.us, which has created a community site and exchange for people working to integrate sustainable principles in their normal working lives, where people can share ideas and resources about best practices regarding carbon offset trading, e-waste disposal, and conservation. He made the point that the iPhone, despite having a low total marketshare of the smart phone market, has a massive ~80% of total mobile web traffic. He said probably going to wait to purchase an iPhone until both the 3G support is in place and they provide email push.
I’ll be very interested in hearing about his experience, given my initial less-than-glowing report on my iPhone. I ended up returning mine, and the odds that I’ll try another one are pretty low. I’ll be more likely to wait for the BlackBerry 9000 series, or whatever it’s called.
Given that RIM now fully supports the Eclipse “stack” (BlackBerry Embraces Eclipse), and Google Android is also heavily Eclipse-related, we are much more likely to support that stack than head down the iPhone route. It’s always possible to support both (our web app works on both the BlackBerry and iPhone browsers), but if we were to go native and have to pick one, it would most likely be the more “open” route.
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