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Saturday, April 08, 2006
RIM sheds skin
I can imagine RIM people having discussed lite this (not in any way saying they did, just maybe...): "We are sitting on a gold mine here, as the awareness of mobile corporate email is stronger than ever, and our competition wants to take over, so let's get this stupid law suit out of the way so we can expand our business."
It wasn't just a matter of economics, but also possible long term destruction of a respected brand, yet I'm still wondering why they had to pay that much.
5 million subscribers is of course not much when comparing with the total mobile phone market, so I would advise RIM to expand its offering to all Java phones. Considering the Blackberry is Java-based anyway (with a dialect of J2ME/MIDP) it can't be that complex for RIM's developers to make a generic solution.
BlackBerry Tops 5 Mln Subscribers - Mobile News - Designtechnica
It wasn't just a matter of economics, but also possible long term destruction of a respected brand, yet I'm still wondering why they had to pay that much.
5 million subscribers is of course not much when comparing with the total mobile phone market, so I would advise RIM to expand its offering to all Java phones. Considering the Blackberry is Java-based anyway (with a dialect of J2ME/MIDP) it can't be that complex for RIM's developers to make a generic solution.
BlackBerry Tops 5 Mln Subscribers - Mobile News - Designtechnica
