RIM unfazed as rivals take aim at BlackBerry

Competing e-mail systems aren't as cheap or secure as they claim, RIM CEO says in Barcelona.

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[WebDev503]

RIM is laughable

Funny, of course RIM is gonna say something they have no proof of when they risk loosing their deal as the middle-man. Forcing ALL emails to travel through their datacenter is not my definition of a great wireless device plan. When I purchased my Blackberry Enterprise Server, I felt ripped off that I buy the expensive software and if they go out of business, I have a worthless piece of software. When I buy software, I believe I own it for life.

And since when has utilizing the network built of their customers considered wasting precious network resources? The goal of the digital age is to get everything connected including computers, phones, television and more, now RIM is claiming that "network capacity is scarce?" Ha, I don't believe it. With TV and music videos and multimedia being the way wireless operators are going, you have got to be kidding RIM.

You no longer are gonna be the only mobile option, so get used to it. Stop ******** and make a better product. Maybe one that has a camera for one. Multimedia for radio and music execs is also not a bad idea (since I am in the biz). Catch up with the times, this is 2006.

[Anthony Frausto-Robledo]

RIM is not laughable, Microsoft is

The real laughable player is Microsoft who only now, about five
years later, finally has realized that push e-mail is a killer
application. But that's typical Gates for you. Afterall, he is the
guy his digital encylopedia will tell you is "innovative." Joke, joke
joke!

RIM on the other hand has been producing very innovative
mobile e-mail solutions that work across many different
platforms. If I have Mac, I can use a Blackberry and sync it with
multiple computers to various applications. If I am IT, I can run
the Blackberry server technology using Lotus, Novell Groupwise
or MS Exchange (options baby!). Microsoft will be Microsoft and
offer you just one choice for your server and your client:
Windows, period and just exchange.

Mac and Linux clients? Out of luck. IBM or Novell? Out of luck.
The Microsoft way means just one thing: no choice.

RIM provides users and IT with real choice. And those options
matter in days when platforms are getting more adaptable to the
fact that we live in a heterogeneous computing environment.

Sure, RIM could stand to add a camera perhaps...but look at
what they are offering today versus what others are still talking
about, and consider what the options are for RIM customers and
when you do that the real laughable company (ies) are not RIM
but RIM challengers.

I personally laugh when people talk about stuff they don't have
today.