Comments on: RIM's work-around revealed

Research In Motion details how its new software work-around will be distributed to customers.

[otisdover]

Apple should buy RIM

#1 - Apple can get the company on the cheap right now
#2 - Apple has cash to spend on ventures such as this
#3 - There would be immediate "in-roads" to the enterprise install
base (most still use Blackberry)
#4 - Future integration with (wireless??) iPod's and other mobile
devices would be embaced

Software uploads still a fantasy for Mac users

Better yet, RIM would develope a Mac client for their desktop
software. As it stands Mac users have no way to install an update or
3rd party applications to their Blackberry devices. Mac users are
forced to use a Windows PC in order to do this. Sounds like a
possible descrimination lawsuit to me, especially if the pending
patent lawsuit forces RIM to issue a workaround that must be
installed in all BBs.

[otisdover]

Apple, please buy (or partner with) RIM!

I am not saying an outright purchase (of this Canadian
company); Apple's market cap is (today) at $57b (was recently at
$70b+) - RIM used to be trading at $100+ and now has a
market cap that is down to $14b.

I am saying that IF you combine Apple's hand-held R&D budget
with RIM's network (depending on its final form) along with the
enterprise exposure already enjoyed by RIM, it would help
Apple's presence in the all-important corporate market.

As for the consideration (by Apple) of Palm: it would not buy
Apple the enterprise exposure needed. I am not saying that Palm
would not be a great addition to the Apple product line, but
Apple needs a network to run on, not just an interesting piece of
hardware/software (a.k.a. "Newton") to set it apart. Add this
need for a network to the potential future of wireless iPod's and
the such, and... (fill in the blank)

[KsprayDad]

The math...

Wow...with logic like that why doesn't Mr. Softy just buy Apple with CASH (and they'll STILL have some left over) and make them go away! Then Mr. Softy would have almost all the market...I wonder why CEOs don't think of these things....

[Nael]

Arm Chair CEO Listen Up

Apple?s and oranges are not the same. So why not have apples for apples?

Apple do not buy RIM.

Apple buy Google!
Apple buy Steve Jobs a new Gulf Stream.
Apple buy needs another Steve Jobs.
Apple buy AOL!
Apple include bluetooth in IPODS.
Apple this apple that apple apple apple.

Apple manufacture your own product line of PDA?s with IPOD with touch screen and voice xml functions. Drop all this keyboard thumb aching stuff. You?re known for innovation of new products not copycats or buying your way into the market. Is entering the mobile messaging arena your core competency? NO.

I like my Ipod without cellular service and PDA functions. If you want, add Bluetooth and that would make it that much better. If wanted a PDA with MP3, I would have bought a Treo. Better yet if I wanted a PDA at all with a leash to my work. I would be taking my blackberry home with me daily. But I do not want to be connected to work 24/7.

Rim, ok you?re the king of mobile messaging but Nokia, Microsoft, Good, and many others are on your tail. Does it make sense to scare us by not settling?

How proven is your workaround? Has it been tested? Where are the customers who have tested?

And finally to the entire arm chair CEO?s. Quit it already!

ACC

[otisdover]

Buy/partner/invest...

...call it what you want - I am simply stating that (in my opinion)
it would be a good marriage. The primary purpose is to further
the inroads into enterprise willingness to spell the word A-P-P-
L-E.

It would be interesting to potentially integrate the iPod direction
(wireless?) with PDA/e-mail through an existing, ACCEPTED
network without re-creating another wheel - no "iPod" pun
intended.

As for the arm-chair CEO comment: I wonder how long Steve
Jobs played "arm-chair" before taking the real plunge?

[drsymbion]

Blackberry Connect?

Will the workaround work for Blackberry Connect devices? Or is this a past chapter for RIM?

//Niels

[SeizeCTRL]

Do the work around

I would love to see them implement the work around and laugh as NTP loses future revenue. Honestly, is NTP even a company? What do they do? Where are they on the web? Where's their products?

Right now they seem like just some greedy guys who scored big on a vague patent and keep holding out for more money. Would love to see them lose it all because of their excessive greediness.