“Bad products, horrible software and no cohesive vision have seemingly turned Research In Motion into a company without motion at this point,” Jonathan S. Geller reports for BGR.
“Thanks to one of our most trusted sources, BGR now has new information on what’s going on inside Research In Motion, and the picture it paints isn’t a pretty one.,” Geller reports. “Our source has communicated to us in no uncertain terms that the PlayBook 2.0 OS developers have been testing is a crystal clear window into the current state of BlackBerry 10 on smartphones. No email, no BlackBerry Messenger — it’s almost identical.”
Geller reports, “We also have some more background on why RIM’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones are delayed, and it has nothing to do with a new LTE chipset that RIM is waiting on. In what is something of a serious allegation, our source told us that Mike Lazaridis was lying when he said the company’s new lineup was delayed for that reason. ‘RIM is simply pushing this out as long as they can for one reason, they don’t have a working product yet,’ we were told.”
Read more in the full article here.
You expected more, perhaps?
Dead. Company. Walking.
DCW, it’s shorter.
It isn’t clear to me that RIM is still ambulatory. Comatose is more like it.
I’m certainly not and expert and haven’t programmed anything since having been forced to take fortran in college 20 years ago, but how hard can it possibly be to make a tablet capable of handling email and messaging?
apparently too hard for RIM
“forced to take fortran” … hehehe…. I can totally understand why you shunned software development for a career!
Its not hard to make an email client or messaging client unless you are big and bloated. RIM strikes me as the kind of place where you schedule 3 meetings to determine what team members you need before you even start planning. It probably takes six months to determine if a “project manager” is needed after that. 😉
30 years ago I was maintaining an e-mail system written in FORTRAN. So that can’t be RIM’s problem.
Don’t knock FORTRAN, especially the modern revisions. You can do anything with it that you can with any other language. Also, it’s more readable than C/C++, IMO.
… it can drive printers absolutely bonkers!
Says the guy who scrambled to get a couple of printers to stop streaming paper while someone else ran around trying to figure out who was repeatedly messing up!
Usually not that hard *IF* the OS has it baked in AND the tools you are using can/do tap the goodies the OS has baked in.
Another way to look at it is; It is pretty fracking simple to bake chocolate chip cookies if you have a few basic kitchen skills a few ingredients and a kitchen.
Try making C-Chip cookies if you have to build the house and the kitchen (including the kitchen tools and oven) from scratch. Then create the infrastructure for the cookie ingredients and finally make the cookies.
All of which Apple and (shudder) M$(/shudder) and (shudder)Google(/shudder) have been able todo, to one degree of competence or another.
In the case of RIM, they have a shite OS, with shite tools to develop for the shite OS, so yes it is hard.
BTW Not flamin’ you, after reading your post I got to wondering how hard is it?
You snooze, you lose.
You woke me up for that!
Maybe they could market their phones to Nigerian Princes by email – ‘You’ve won a RIM smartphone, just pay an administrative and import fees of $100 Canadian to claim your phone.’ 😉
Wow, didn’t Geller and BGR start out as a Blackberry fan site? If you’ve lost that demographic, you’ve really lost it.
You need some work on your troll son.
RIM has responded to the allegations (with the same lie again): http://allthingsd.com/20111222/rim-rumors-about-blackberry-10-problems-simply-false/
And of course, let’s not forget that if making one of these products (software OR hardware) is like building a Lego toy, nowadays it’s as if someone took all the pieces with pegs on them out of the box. With so many companies taking up so much patent territory, it’s hard to find enough stuff left to make something with.
Imagine being on that development team. Life would suck.
“How about this boss?”
“Great idea, nice work, but we can’t use it – Apple/Google/HP/Motorola/Samsung has that locked down already”
“How about this?”
“Nope”
“How about this?”
“Nope”
“How about this?”
“Nope”
“How about this?”
“Nope”
*Bang*
Either that or “Let’s move to China where we can do it anyways”
I don’t really understand all the hate towards RIM, please can somebody explain? As a long term Apple user I’d relish the prospect of seeing the word ‘beleaguered’ used to describe Microsoft or Google. But why pick on RIM? It’s like kicking a dying animal at the side of the road.
OK, so they’ve made half baked attempt at iPhone alternatives and we all know about their woeful attempt at an iPad killer. But theirs is not a product based entirely on ripped off ideas like Windows or Android. They were making (crappy) phones before iOS came along. Surely the only thing they’re guilty of is underestimating the competition and failing to innovate their way out of trouble?
That and being incredibly dismissive, arrogant, foolish, myopic, witless, lethargic, and wrongheaded. Did I miss any? The two princes, clinging to their broken beliefs, inhabiting that increasingly cold, airless ivory tower, are staring at pauperhood. There are special French, Latin, and German expressions for their sins. A few choice Americanisms, too. Too dramatic? Perhaps, but what I’ve said merely distills the main line of sentiment at MDN since, oh, 2007.
Another floppy disk…
“No email, no BlackBerry Messenger”
Still amazes me why RIM does this… the two things BB were always known, can’t be done on their “tablet” without a BB phone…
Must be they think if they put it on their playbook, people wouldn’t buy the phones anymore…