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The Economic Times reports, “So brisk was the sale that Canadian stores went out of stock very quick, reminding the frenzy that surrounded the launch of the previous version of the iPhone in Canada.”
“The iPhone 4 euphoria in their backward [sic.] must not have gone unnoticed at BlackBerry headquarters at Waterloo near here,” The Economic Times reports. “To meet the Apple onslaught, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is holding a press conference in New York Tuesday to unveil its newest BlackBerry 9800 with a slider keyboard and touch-screen interface.”
MacDailyNews Take: Slider keyboard? How quaint. Watch those Apple patents now, RIM, ya hear? We wouldn’t want to see you subject yourselves to any legal ramifications due to patent infringement.
The Economic Times reports, “Aimed solely at consumers and youngsters, the new BlackBerry will be RIM’s first retaliatory shot at Apple whose iPhone 4 has eaten into its supremacy in the North American market.”
MacDailyNews Take: First? Bzzzt. Try again. How quickly they forget the “Storm” and “Storm 2” fiascos, but we didn’t. At first, we were told about how much Apple was scared about RIM’s “iPhone killers.” Then RIM released the things and the reviews started to be filed. Hence the beginning of RIM’s never-ending, artificially plump the unit sales bottom line, “Buy One BlackBerry, Get One Free” offers at carriers around the world.
• ZDNet reviews BlackBerry Storm2: RIM needs to dump the SurePress screen and get a new OS – October 28, 2009
• Verizon slashes BlackBerry Storm price in half in attempt to compete with $99 Apple iPhone 3G – July 20, 2009
• RIM preps Blackberry Storm 2 for September release; this one will have Wi-Fi – April 06, 2009
• Only one storm drags down D.C. Republicans and Democrats alike: RIM’s awful BlackBerry Storm – March 06, 2009
• PC World: It’s official, Blackberry Storm is no Apple iPhone killer – January 27, 2009
• RIM’s big response to Apple’s iPhone, BlackBerry Storm, falls flat – January 26, 2009
• ChangeWave: Apple iPhone’s ‘very satisfied’ rating more than double that of RIM’s BlackBerry Storm – December 22, 2008
• Buyers lining up to return RIM’s BlackBerry Storm? – December 17, 2008
• Yale Daily News: The Storm isn’t an iPhone killer, it’s a Blackberry killer – December 10, 2008
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship Professor reviews RIM BlackBerry Storm: ‘Disappointing and awful’ – December 05, 2008
• NY Times’ Pogue reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘I’ve got a better name for it: BlackBerry Dud’ – November 26, 2008
• InformationWeek reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Tiresome, slow, severe bugginess and problems’ – November 24, 2008
• CNET: Apple is scared of RIM’s Storm – November 21, 2008
• TIME Mag reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Novelty screen feels cheap; steer clear of this storm’ – November 20, 2008
• Chicago Tribune reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Can’t compete with Apple’s iPhone’ – November 20, 2008
• Gizmodo reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Heavy, laggy, sluggish, unstable, clunky, and tiring’ – November 20, 2008
• Engadget reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Frustrating, inelegant, uncomfortable; a disappointment’ – November 20, 2008
• PC World reviews RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: ‘Awkward, disappointing; a failed experiment’ – November 20, 2008
• BlackBerry Storm: No Wi-Fi. No iPod. No iTunes App Store. No sale. – November 14, 2008
The Economic Times reports, “Apart from Canada, iPhone 4 made its debut also in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The smart phone was launched in the US in June.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: All of this goes to prove that two half-CEOs aren’t better than one Mr. Steve Jobs.
And it begins again…..
Why are they bothering?
Wait, did I read that right? RIM’s Blackberry Headquarters are located in a town called Waterloo?!
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
So Canada ends at Halifax eh?
Newfoundland’s got iphones too!
We heart you NFLD!
No newfie jokes please…
4, 3, 2, 1…
Another “freakin’ beard of bees.”
http://www.iphonematters.com/article/iphone_family_reunion/
Rims CEO’s soon to be sent to Elba Island.
Sounds like Rim and Adobpe should join forces. All we ever hear from them is “when the next version…”
“Frenzied Canadians” Please excuse me while I quietly smile behind my hand. Sorry! No offense meant by that…
Frenzied Canadians? The Stanley Cup Playoffs ended in June. No Frenzied Canadians here.
Who is teaching these Canadians grammar:
“The Economic Times reports, “So brisk was the sale that Canadian stores went out of stock very quick, reminding the frenzy that surrounded the launch of the previous version of the iPhone in Canada.”
And I thought Americans had a hard time with English.
It’s published by the India Times.
So brisk was the sale, that Canadian stores went out of stock very quickly, invoking frenzy that surrounded the launch of the previous version of the iPhone in Canada. How’s that for editing?
Are you saying that Apple has patents on slide out keyboards? WTF?
Frenzied Canadians – love it. Although I doubt they were quite as frenzied as they were after a certain hockey game back in February
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It might be a good competitor if it didn’t have to make space for those prehistoric keyboard buttons that are there all the time. Anyone that argues for actual buttons has to realize that iPhone sales wouldn’t be what they are if their virtual keyboard wasn’t up to par.
…and it goes away until you need it.
…and I do know it is a slideout keyboard, but you still have to make space for it and could include something else instead.
Suck it, RIM.
@ Ampar,
No wonder you don’t get what you want. You are giving her two conflicting orders. Ask politely for one or the other.
I wonder how much the iPhone virtual keyboard weighs compared to the RIM keyboard!
This is from an article on Crave about RIM coming out with their iPad killer later this year: “Though RIM will have a ways to go to catch up to Apple’s 3 million-plus iPads sold since April, RIM is still the leader in the smartphone market in the U.S. It shipped 35 percent of all smartphones in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010, according to data recently released by Nielsen. Apple is behind RIM with 28 percent of U.S. smartphones, followed by Windows Mobile phones with 19 percent, and Android smartphones with 9 percent.” Interesting how the Droid is killing iPhone-not!
Apple may find it difficult to catch up to RIM as long as Verizon persist in the price reduction and BOGO policy of the past. They are also doing the same with the DROID series allowing the Android market to close the gap but eventually, as FUD on the IPhone wanes and quality and virus missteps increase with Android and infrastructure failures persist with RIM, along with continuous improvements in AT&T’s infrastructure, I think the IPhone will win out. Apple does not have to commodities it’s products in order to succeed and is not frivolously reactionary. All designs are trade offs and unless an implementation is rigorously beneficial to the majority of it’s users,it is not implemented.
Oh, it took me a second, but that’s funny!
Halifax o vancouver….just a 1000 km’s short.
It’s easy to run out of stock when you have only a handful of units on launch day. I watched an unboxing from Québec where the guy stated that the store only had 4 units! (he was 2nd in line)
P.S. I also saw a Canadian reproducing the attenuation issue with the allegedly corrected problem, which raises the question why only people who purchased the phone prior to Sep 30th get the free ($1 to manufacture) case…
RIM battles the iPhone4 juggernaut at Waterloo.