“In a research note, Hallaren writes that RIMM is ‘having a big trackball problem,’ especially with the Tour,” Savitz reports. “He reports that RIMM ‘needs customers to clean the track ball frequently, and preferably with compressed air.’ He adds that, ‘not surprisingly, most customers prefer not to.'”
MacDailyNews Take: “Especially” with the Tour; not “exclusively.” Not good for RIM.
“TownHall reports that return rates on the Tour at Sprint ‘have been climbing toward 50%.’ He adds that Sprint perceives RIMM overall quality control is a huge problem,” Savitz reports. “The firm also says Verizon is ‘experiencing serious problems’ with the Tour.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like there’s another Storm a brewing! Research In Motion should get their two half-CEOs to put their heads together on this RIM job and get to work on those balls. Surely, Bono would be glad to lend a helping hand, too.
But But RIM has U2 backing it. I mean, they are THE band
That’s what you get with mechanical clunky POS design. Unlike the iPhone full Star Trek like experience. RIM is riding on the scared to changed IT/CIO people.
hahaha, best MacDailyNews Take ever!
Scuzzy guy Boner. Not me 2.
It takes SuBo to sing his song.
Google this: Blackberry Tour trackball problems and you get 2.7 **million** hits: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=blackberry+tour+trackball+problems&aq=1&oq=blackberry+tour+track&aqi=g10
To be fair, if you Google this: iPod Touch problems you get 186,000,000…
Getting a little risque with our MDN Take comments, aren’t we? Guess it goes over many people’s heads.
@ Jubei:
“RIM is riding on the scared to change IT/CIO people.”
Just like Microsoft.
Research in Fail.
Perhaps Bastille is spending too much time chasing a Phoenix hockey puck when he should be out looking for a basketball team.
@Jay-Z
Amen brother!
Maybe they used the same trackball in the mighty mouse
Titillating take from MDN!!
@ Bobo and Jaundiced
The Mighty Mouse is perfect. I know: I buy two per year. (I work in the fashion industry: lots of fabric, fibre, lint, etc.)
It should have been easy to design the Mighty Mouse so we can open it and clean the mechanism.
That was a pretty gay take MDN.
Big Gay Als MBP,
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
@ Lookithere
re “To be fair, if you Google this: iPod Touch problems you get 186,000,000…”
Yes, but one of the results in that search includes, “…Why iPod touch will never be a major gaming platform…” and if you Google that phrase, you get 794 thousand hits
Most of the 186,000,000 are references to the same reference and most have nothing to do with any physical problems as seen with the RIM product.