“Research in Motion takes the stage this week to preach to a gathering of its faithful in Florida during the Canadian company’s annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium. But just as the BlackBerry maker seems to be reaching the height of success, its flock may well start to stray,” Scott Moritz reports for Fortune.
“Not only will followers be tempted by new devices like Apple’s forthcoming business-friendly iPhone, other sect members will face excommunication as cost-cutting initiatives sweep through the office ranks,” Moritz reports. RIM has just unveiled the company’s “first 3G phone, the BlackBerry Bold,” Moritz reports.
“Due to delays first reported by Fortune, the dazzling BlackBerry Bold will not be available in the United States until as late as August. This means Apple will beat RIM to the market in June with its 3G iPhone,” Moritz reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Dazzling? No.
Moritz continues, “And according to Cisco, the iPhone business plan seems to be marching along. On an earnings call with analysts last week, Cisco chief John Chambers said the new iPhone has some of Cisco’s office network security system loaded on. ‘The upcoming software version 2 for the iPhone incorporates Cisco’s VPN technology,’ Chambers said. Having the networking giant involved with Apple’s business play certainly can’t be comforting to RIM.”
“A good part of RIM’s success is reflected in the stock’s rise, which has so far defied the slowing economy and sluggish corporate information technology spending. But the new product delay coupled with arrival of Apple and Nokia’s BlackBerry killers, may challenge RIM’s perennial winner status,” Mortiz reports.
Full article here.
John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD,”The BlackBerry Bold won’t ship until as late as August, which means Apple (AAPL) could beat it to market with the enterprise-friendly 3G iPhone it’s rumored to be uncrating at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference in June. Which has got to worry RIM. After all, the first-generation iPhone had claimed a 28% market share by the fourth quarter of 2007. That’s still less than the BlackBerry, which holds about a 41% market share, but the iPhone hasn’t even been on the market a year.”
Full article, “Think of It as an iPhone With a Broken Touchscreen,” here.
Ville Heiskanen reports for Bloomberg, “The Bold has 1 gigabyte of memory, more than any previous BlackBerry. Users can expand it to 8 gigabytes with a memory card. Cupertino, California-based Apple [already] sells the [current] iPhone in 8-gigabyte and 16-gigabyte versions.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
…Transparent Aluminum ?!?!?
@ Montgomery Scott,
Tuned in HBO today, hmmmm?
But you Yanks wouldn’t know good coffee if you were drowning in it. Drip filter, which you seem so fond of, is rubbish, instant is rubbish (especially Nescafe, Pablo and International Roast – Moccona will make do when absolutely desperate, like out camping) but a stove top coffee percolator makes a perfect full flavoured brew.
The best coffee, however comes from an espresso machine. Make mine a strong soy flat white to go thanks, no sugar.
Talk about originality. The dazzling Bold looks like my Motorola Q Global.
It is really strange that BlackBerry would make the design exactly like the iPhone – The thing that helped make BlackBerry popular was they made the device easy to hold when you type with your thumbs. This new design will be hard to hold like the iPhone. I have an iPhone and find it quite slippery and hard to hold without a case. I think that you will hear a lot of complaints about this on the the new Bold. Stupid to just copy the iPhone design.
Gosh, when you folks talk about RIM and the Blackberry, you would think that they have been double dealing Apple for years! Hatred drips from the comments. RIM has served a market that Apple and others have not for many years. It is to their credit.
That does not make them evil and deserving of the hateful venom being dealt out to them by the Apple fan boys.
Lighten up.
“RIM has just unveiled the company’s “first 3G phone, the BlackBerry Bold,””
so the problem (some say) with the iPhone is that it isn’t 3G….. despite several good reasons for it not to be.
but the wonderful crackberry isn’t either? nice double standard from certain critics……
“Gosh, when you folks talk about RIM and the Blackberry, you would think that they have been double dealing Apple for years! Hatred drips from the comments. RIM has served a market that Apple and others have not for many years. It is to their credit. “
some do, yes.
many of us are just tired of seeing companies like rim and ms that never do anything, never create, never change and never innovate, and yet they control the market.
lead, follow, or get the hell outta the way…
I’d have a better attitude towards Blackberry if their CEO would recognize the iPhone as a good competitor instead of acting like it doesn’t even exist. M$ did that and look at things now.
The enterprise is still clutching the BlackBerry like a drunk in an alley clutches his last bottle of MD 20/20. The BlackBerry can be, but not always a complicated piece of gear to configure. The future of communications is not crammed with tons of settings and excessive code, BUT SIMPLICITY. I’m dumping my Verizon account as soon as iPhone 2.0 arrives.
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@JoshtheiMacGuy
Shen is right. RIM had years to innovate and come up with something much better than what they have now. The same with companies like TiVo, Dell, Blockbuster, etc., all the companies that Apple is trouncing because they have failed to innovate.
I would not describe it as hate. More like frustration that more companies cannot innovate like Apple does.
One thing Apple needs to do, and they probably won’t, is make an iPhone without a camera. One of the reasons why the government uses the Blackberry is that it does not have a camera. Cameras are not allowed onto most government facilities. The Blackberry is huge in the government and they are this country’s largest employer.
Business wants secure push e-mail.
RIM does secure push e-mail better than iPhone and RIM does it on every carrier.
Apple’s iPhone will never match RIM’s push e-mail, especially using the Microsoft Exchange solution.
Business has a choice. Many will continue to choose Blackberry.
There is room for tow strong choices. A competitive RIM can only make iPhone even better.
@ Black’n Blueberry,Glue or spotweld a piece of tin over or just grind the lens so as to make it unusable. This should suffice for any government security issue. Using the developers kit there should be some way to disable the camera function. Scratch up the lens with a pin, pour muriatic acid on the lens, paint it with any translucent or opaque substance…need I continue?
comedy.
@bobchr
You have not considered several things. Destroying the lens would void the warranty. The government would never specify a camera enabled cell phone for it’s people to use on a secured site. Destroying the lens to disable the camera simply is not acceptable enough for security either.
“The best coffee, however comes from an espresso machine. Make mine a strong soy flat white to go thanks, no sugar.”
Personally, I think that as long as the coffee is really fresh, a percolator makes a fine cup of coffee.
But a French press is still the best.
@ Black ‘n Blueberry and bobchr:
I’m sure if any government agency wanted a significant number of iPhones, Apple would be able to supply them without camera functions, even if that means special production without the camera hardware components installed.
All it means is that government employees would have to buy via government channels and not at your local Apple retail store.
…Can’t compare phones, within or without an “i” with a coffee machine, because: some percolator’s are still (and will forever) be better than some new dishwater machines sold todays…
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What iPhone is concerned… it’s all just a start. With 3G internal, it’s gonna be a tidal wave!
Cubert you made me laugh! Much love
I was excited to get my blackberry curve (company phone) after having the palm treo 755….. I must say it was cool to have a thinner phone at first… but damn reception isn’t as clear as the iphone and with the 20 that we have too many problems. Having to take out the battery and put it back in to fix the issues with it. And support…. haha there is none.. other than the data guy from at&t;who I stopped calling for help after finding out he just looks up issues in the blackberry forums……..I’ll be getting the iphone and cant wait to enjoy it’s features.
More like “Blackberry’s RIM Is In For A Bruising”! 😀
“Not only will followers be tempted by new devices like Apple’s forthcoming business-friendly iPhone…”
Yes, I must say it is tempting…
RIM creamed? RIM Trimmed? RIM crimped? RIM shrimped!!!
Ah, yes… here come the iPhone fanboys!! Guess you washed away that bitter taste of overpaying (by a solid couple hundred bucks) for your phone with a nice, tall Apple-flavored Kool-Aid!!
What no one seems to want to mention is the fact that iPhone *dictates* your carrier be AT&T;- and don’t talk to me about hacks… I need my phone to be *reliable*… something that AT&T;doesn’t do.
Now, if iPhone allows you to choose your carrier, then we can talk. ‘Til then, I’ll be on my 8830.