“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is dumping RIM’s BlackBerry from its list of officially supported mobile devices, according to a memo sent from the organizations CIO,” Jim Dalrymple reports for The Loop.
“The U.S. government will instead supply workers with new iPhones and iPads. Klimavicz says the organization will now support the iPhone 4 and above with iOS 5 and above,” Dalrymple reports. “The iPad 2 and above with iOS 5 and above will also be supported.”
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MacDailyNews Take: By now, beleaguered RIM’s coffin is 99% nails.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “moebeans” for the heads up.]
The great thing about this: “Once you go mac, you never go back.”
Go Apple!!!
I remember that saying in another context
I guess they’ll be dumping their POS BBs in the ocean as oceanic marker bouys to see the effects of El Nino & La Nina currents on weather patterns.
Exavtly. NOAA will put giant lens on the message received light and there you go, instant boat anch…. I mean buoy.
Except they’re all boat anchors and will drop straight down to bottom of the sea where the rest of the bottom feeders live.
As contracts start getting near the expiration date, we are going to see more of these institutions and companies, as well as individuals start moving away from RIMM. They are on their way out of business but it will take awhile.
RiM: dead in the water.
Has the President of the United States dumped his Canadian POS yet?
POTUS 86s POS BB, FCOL!
Yep! There’s a great indicator of the TechTardiness of the Obama administration: Buying his staff RIM Playbooks. 😯 Soon to be new paving stones at the White House.
As Ever: Thank you NSA (National Security Agency) for keeping our government’s computing secure. *cynical laugh*
RIP RIM
DCW SOL
TLA 4 FKD
No brainer. Duh!
The Australian Communications And Media Authority (ACMA) is dumping blackberry phones for iPhones too.
My son has just started high school in Australia at the local government secondary college. Day 2 he comes home with a brand new ipad2. Instructions to parents are “please purchase a $50 iTunes card and set up an itunes account and email. Add the credit and inform us of the details. We will install all the apps and texts he needs for the year ahead”. Brilliant! The textbooks and ancillary parafinaliar would have cost north of $200 otherwise. He won’t be lugging around kilos of trees in his backpack, his work will be backed up over wifi automatically as soon as he gets to school, (no more dog ate my homework excuses…) and he is so keen to get into it that he might actually learn something.
The school has had pc net books before and could not get rid of them fast enough. Sick of the high cost of support, licensing, malware, breakages, appalling build quality, compatibility issues, flaky OSs, version control, and lack of quality integrated applications. The potential in the development of this ecosystem is truly extraordinary. IT may finally deliver the visionary dreams of the 80s &90s. Ironic that that was when apple was on its knees… The Dr.