“The minute Apple Inc.’s iPhone appeared and rocketed to glory, everyone was wondering what RIM would do… So far, the company has been in the tank with a couple of real dogs,” John C. Dvorak writes for MarketWatch. “The first howler was RIM’s Storm, which I personally tried and found to be impossible to use and also annoying. Now we see the PlayBook, which will turn out to be a disaster.”
Dvorak writes, “For a company that got its reputation and hung its future on email, exactly why can’t the RIM PlayBook retrieve any? If you hook a phone to it, you can get your messages, yes. But that’s just ridiculous. Why can’t the thing retrieve email like every other tablet in the world just by itself?
“I’ve been under the impression that RIM was a company that could get through any downturn. But I never thought much about it muddling through a paradigm shift caused by a disruptive device — the app phone,” Dvorak writes. “It’s almost impossible to make a comeback from two glaring mistakes such as the Storm and the PlayBook. You’d have to hit a home run the next time at bat, even though RIM has not made any contact with the ball at all. Read more about RIM shares tumbling below $50 after company’s profit warning and analyst downgrades.”
Dvorak writes, “Here is my fear: The Waterloo, Ontario-based company has lost touch with reality and its customer base. Seriously.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, maybe we were wrong about RIM?
Just kidding. Dvorak’s fear is, for once, well-founded.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dominick P.” for the heads up.]
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LOL. Even that buffoon can see it.
Dvorak saying RIM has lost touch with reality?
Now that the pot calling the kettle black!
On the other hand, its good to see that John is back on his meds.
When John Dvorak – a man who carries the Good Housekeeping Seal of Nuttiness – says you’ve lost touch with reality, you probably really have gone “through the looking-glass”.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day…
Unless it’s set to military time 😉
…which is more than DvorHack can say.
Right. This is coming from someone who knows all about losing touch with reality. Shameless, I say. Can we have a Think Before You Click (TM) on this one, please?
I thought of that “knows all about losing touch” line as soon as I saw the headline. Curse you for posting it first! 😉
Given John’s failure to see the future of the mouse or the iPhone or the iPad, this is certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
“I fear the disease because I know it firsthand.”
“The minute Apple Inc.’s iPhone appeared and rocketed to glory, everyone was wondering what RIM would do…”
Whose Dvorak including in ‘everyone’? He thought the iPhone as a huge mistake and Apple would be embarrassed.
So true…wow…such foresight…such analytic skills Dvorak demonstrates. Now where are the ad nauseum Dvorak iCal links that demonstrate those skills in action?
Not “lost touch with reality”. They are delusional. You can’t match a few features of something that someone else is offering and think you will win over anyone. Clueless! You have to offer more and exceed the product or services.
Idiots!
RIM’s reputation was built upon secure email systems. The Playbook has no email application. The word “fail” doesn’t do this scenario justice.
All the above are true, still its nice to see something lucid coming from him.
🙂 Forget RimM
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“IT’S NOT FAIR”
“….. which I personally tried and found to be impossible to use and also annoying….”
Does Dvorak even bother to read through what he writes?
Wait, I have forgotten, who was it that said, Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone shortly after the iPhone introduction? Was it Enderle, was it Dvorak, oh I’m almost to the point of care.
“What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a “reference design” and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.
“It should do that immediately before it’s too late. Samsung Electronics Ltd. SSNGY 0.00% might be a candidate. Otherwise I’d advise you to cover your eyes. You’re not going to like what you’ll see.”
Read the original master at his full glory:
“John Dvorak’s Second Opinion
March 28, 2007, 7:18 p.m. EDT
Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone
A prophet, that man is.
My favorite line from that article is
“There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive.”
No likelihood huh? Haha!
Thanks for linking the article! I needed a good laugh…
Remember RIM email was plain text POS came even view anything inline. The minute BB users saw the email on the iPhone with rich beautiful text and inline images, they turned around and asked their IT/CIO who probably gave them some BS line on why it’s not a good idea.
RIM, circling the toilet bowl since 2007.
Sent from my iPhone.
BLN goes for the grand slam. I was looking for this. Good day for RIM news.
“LOL. Even that buffoon can see it.”
Or the other possible interpretation… Since Delusional Dvorak thinks RIM is doomed, they must be OK.
(Ohhh, let us all give thanks for these wise pundits who let us know what is going on.)
You’re Getting Lazy MDN…I fondly remember the days you would have called the gas bag out and linked us all the times Dvorak said iPhone would phail, Apple didn’t get it, etc…
So typical for prognosticators such as Dvorak to simply ignore their past failures and go on prognosticating for the masses ignorant of their ignorance.
I guess with RIM, Dvorak can call it like it is and still get enough hits.
Rim was dead the moment Apple clearly redefined the sector. Rim had ten years at the top to perfect a GUI but sat back and got lazy. Apple’s iPhone release flat out embarrassed their best products. Now Rim is stuck. They have no income other than declining cell phone sales, no reliable OS, no desktop OS, no great apps, and they are now up against companies like Apple, Nokia/MicroSoft, Google, which have deep pockets, command chip supplies, and can afford the costly R&D to design their products to integrate perfectly with PCs along with other devices (like AppleTV or Xbox etc)
A few years ago most of my friends had BBs. Today I know two people who still have BBs. One (student) because it was the cheapest option, and the other says they are getting an iPhone the second their BB Bold contract is up.
The playbook had to be great and clearly is not. Now even faithful dvorks like Dvorak can’t pretend anymore. I’m betting six more months until Rim is bought, mostly for their patents.
Yes, their is hope for RIM after all. If Dvorak the Dork has never seem reality and never in touch with anything but himself made the comment.
Yes, I love Apple product and would never buy a RIM product , but real competition is good for the industry.
“iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.” – JCD – 13 Jan 2007
iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.”
John C. Dvorak, 13 January 2007
Why is Enderlenutjob so quiet nowadays?
Dvorhack, being semi-lucid? Pigs must be flying. I think Gruber linked a piece by Enderle in the last couple days where he was semi-lucid as well. Dogs must be living with cats.
LOL.
Well, that pretty much solves it for me. We are in the end of days. Dogs and cats living together, and we just have to look out our windows to see the mass hysteria……………… 🙂