RIM thought Apple was lying about original iPhone in 2007
An alleged former employee of Research in Motion has revealed that RIM was incredulous over the original iPhone when Apple first unveiled the smartphone in January of 2007, according to a new report.
The BlackBerry maker reportedly held multiple "all-hands meetings" the day after the first-generation iPhone was announced, MacNN reports.
According to Shacknews poster Kentor, employees at RIM and Microsoft were "utterly shocked" by the iPhone. RIM was allegedly "in denial" about the iPhone, claiming "it couldn't do what they were demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life, etc" Kentor wrote.
"Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it," the post read.
Apple introduced the revolutionary mobile phone on January 9, 2007. At the time, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asserted that the smartphone was "literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone."
RIM has struggled to keep up with the iPhone's tremendous growth. During an earnings call in October, Jobs announced that Apple had passed RIM in units sold. "I don't see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future."
Verbal shots have been fired between the two companies' CEOs as the rivalry between Apple and RIM has increased. Most recently, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie asserted that RIM, with its unreleased PlayBook tablet, was "way ahead" of Apple and its iPad. Though the BlackBerry maker beat Wall Street estimates with its latest quarterly earnings, the company also announced that it will no longer reveal new subscriber numbers, which have slowed in recent quarters.
According to RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, the PlayBook tablet OS will "set up BlackBerry for the next decade." Earlier this month, Lazaridis revealed in an interview that the QNX-based tablet OS will eventually be used in multi-core BlackBerry smartphones.
Sales of the BlackBerry Torch, RIM's answer to the iPhone, have been steady, but the device has failed to gain the traction that Apple's smartphone has established.
The BlackBerry maker reportedly held multiple "all-hands meetings" the day after the first-generation iPhone was announced, MacNN reports.
According to Shacknews poster Kentor, employees at RIM and Microsoft were "utterly shocked" by the iPhone. RIM was allegedly "in denial" about the iPhone, claiming "it couldn't do what they were demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life, etc" Kentor wrote.
"Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it," the post read.
Apple introduced the revolutionary mobile phone on January 9, 2007. At the time, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asserted that the smartphone was "literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone."
RIM has struggled to keep up with the iPhone's tremendous growth. During an earnings call in October, Jobs announced that Apple had passed RIM in units sold. "I don't see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future."
Verbal shots have been fired between the two companies' CEOs as the rivalry between Apple and RIM has increased. Most recently, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie asserted that RIM, with its unreleased PlayBook tablet, was "way ahead" of Apple and its iPad. Though the BlackBerry maker beat Wall Street estimates with its latest quarterly earnings, the company also announced that it will no longer reveal new subscriber numbers, which have slowed in recent quarters.
According to RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, the PlayBook tablet OS will "set up BlackBerry for the next decade." Earlier this month, Lazaridis revealed in an interview that the QNX-based tablet OS will eventually be used in multi-core BlackBerry smartphones.
Sales of the BlackBerry Torch, RIM's answer to the iPhone, have been steady, but the device has failed to gain the traction that Apple's smartphone has established.
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Apparently five years is magic.
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Does the term "co-CEO" piss anyone else off when they hear it?
It's just weird with our perspective.
We come from a totalitarian dictatorship. The concept of a co-CEO can be equated to Steve Jobs and his wife being in charge of Apple simultaneously. It's complete nonsense but hilarious to imagine.
;-)
Does the term "co-CEO" piss anyone else off when they hear it?
They refer to themselves as "DUAL CORE" CEO since they seem to be obsessed with dual core processors on a phone and tablet.
The car industry... GM is still producing the Chevy Impala for 2011. Even after Hyundai introduced its new Sonata, which is roughly 10 years newer as a product. That's incredibly lazy.
The airline industry... many of their interiors (a hospitality product) are unchanged since the 1980s. If you went to a Four Seasons hotel from the 1980s, you'd ask for a refund. Airlines fail to adapt to changes.
Electronics is no different. My parents' HDTV / digiCable interface is just horrible. To watch a DVD, you must press "Input" literally six times. It's a failure of design and standards. So bad that the customer can't even use it. Four different components have their own different menu. Electronic companies are catering to the 5% nerd and ignoring the 95% public. Guess where the real money is made.
I hate my BB Torch.
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie asserted that RIM, with its unreleased PlayBook tablet, was "way ahead" of Apple and its iPad.
Congrats that your UNRELEASED device is, in your opinion, "way ahead" of year-old technology.
gee, it's a good thing apple will never ever update the iPad, otherwise, you'd be FOOKED.
Heck, this is the twenty first century news'! Fair and balanced all the way!
There's nowhere near as many Apps and what Apps do exist are all Java based. At least the Torch boots faster than the other BlackBerries. The iPhone boots in about 10 seconds, the BlackBerry devices can take up to 10 minutes to reboot and you have to yank the battery and reboot them now and then when it gets wonky.
Thank God, that my company will be supporting the iPhone and iPad as well as Android phones in January! We are using the tech from Good.com rather then trying to enterprise activate with ActiveSync. Good is a single app that's encrypted, it does email, calendar and contacts. If you leave the company they just disable your logon to the app and don't wipe your device. This allows you to have both personal and work on the same device without interaction.
Well I think RIM is lying about the Playbook.. I don't think it can do what they say it can do.
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RIM may not be lying about what they THINK the Playbook can do. The key for the Playbook is how it does what they say (or THINK) it does. If it isn't easy, intuitive and productive, it will fail.
Well I think RIM is lying about the Playbook.. I don't think it can do what they say it can do.
;-)
Well, its not like their claiming that it does all that much to begin with.
Definitely nothing ground breaking.
Thank God, that my company will be supporting the iPhone and iPad as well as Android phones in January! We are using the tech from Good.com rather then trying to enterprise activate with ActiveSync. Good is a single app that's encrypted, it does email, calendar and contacts. If you leave the company they just disable your logon to the app and don't wipe your device. This allows you to have both personal and work on the same device without interaction.
Don't get your hopes up too high about the Good product yet. Its a nice try, but they really aren't up to enterprise level support, its slow, and dealing with attachments through their in-app reader is a nightmare. Slow downloads and unreliable viewing.
Its not a bad approach, but they really need to improve their product big time.
So someone on the internetz posts a comment somewhere at some site ...
a site dedicated to PC and console gaming news is apparently a reliable source of information regarding the inner workings of a telecommunication and wireless device company