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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) The iPhone was a hit out of the gate due to it's refined OS and HW. 2) Excluding the addition of 3G, the jumps in sales can be seen with a lowering of the entry price... which the customer has to pay. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ljocampo I think this is the only thing left for RIM to do. Tied tightly into MS's Windows 8 mobile & desktop platforms with an Apple-like curated App Store run by MS would IMO revive RIMs market share of the busin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I think this is incorrect, too. I think RiM's mistake was thinking the carriers were their customers and failing to continue innovating when they were on top. I completely disagree with you because the ip…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ash471 The telcoms are idiots. RIM's fatal mistake was misreading the carriers. I think that Steve Jobs' experience with all the palace intrigue at Apple in the early 80's help him read the situation more accurat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 All it took was one. If Verizon hadn't done the Alltel acquisition, the iPhone would have easily pushed AT&T past them. It still almost did. And Verizon getting the iPhone didn't cause the predicted mas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Yeah, but how many of those "shipped" found a permanent home with a customer at normal pricing and thus contributed positively to RIM's bottom line? Luckily I don't have to speculate - their financials tell …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 I believe your firmly in the "damning with fent praise" zone. The fact that Apple is the only tablet maker making a profit is meaningless, eh? It is EXTREMELY meaningful that Apple is the only one making a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JVP OK, so by your figures RIM sold, I mean shipped, about 480,000, but you must have missed this: The company also announced pre-tax charges of $54 million related to a service interruption the company experienced in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Capnbob AT A LOSS!! Can't make that up in volume... So was the number 2 tablet, the Kindle Fire.
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Quote: Originally Posted by rgfsteed However, Apple's truly disruptive innovation was to bypass the carrier and sell the phone directly to consumers. Then carriers came to regret it. The whole issue came down to RIM thought the carriers wer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Isn't BB the 3rd most popular smartphone platform after iOS and Android? Does that make it a success when they have a negative profit for the quarter, have a severely lowered ARP, that didn't help them to se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I don't understand your conclusion. "Could be a lot worse" does not equate to "We're not doing poorly." PS: I wonder if there is a term for when someone compares two things in an unsound way in order to m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb The fact that they refuse to discontinue the unpopular and money-losing Playbook tablet tells me they are not serious about turning things around. New management appears to be staying the course - toward the c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ahmlco People often take Apple to task for their non-removeable battery stance, without realizing just how much difference a few millimeters here and there actually make. Of course, now Apple is practically gluing e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Neo42 Oh neato, two devices (that probably aren't in production yet) to use BT4.0! Until there is some decent adoption of this protocol, no one cares about it. Just like thunderbolt. Speaking of thunderbolt, can't w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by madhatter61 Reason is 4x more pixels and much more demanding ... thus 4x the GPU performance The ipad 2 already has a dual-core GPU. So the ipad 3 with quad-core GPU is only 2x GPU performance --- while pushing 4x …
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B How dare they underpromise and overdeliver. The next thing you know, they'll start underclocking components to increase battery life... It's like that Seinfeld episode where the gang loves the taste …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I wasn't thinking about when it's on a call, I was thinking about it being in BLE between calls for an enhanced standby time (speculative). BLE also allows for a faster setup time, too so when you press and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX What about BT headsets? Or wearable computing devices like Nike Fuel Band and it's successors that can monitor many vitals and then trickle update data periodically or remote controls that don't require line…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Relic Well if it's like most devices it just uses the wire off of your earphones as the antenna. At least that is what my phones do. So you are telling me that you won't get FM radio if you just use the ipad's inter…