Comments on: ThoughtPiece: The State of the US Market http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Black Friday is here, however, Cingular’s BlackBerry Pearl isn’t | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/comment-page-1/#comment-58263 Black Friday is here, however, Cingular’s BlackBerry Pearl isn’t | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:03:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/002694/#comment-58263 [...] It would appear that all those distribution problems Cingular had way back over year ago when they released the BlackBerry 8700c are still prevelant. They actually may have gotten worse at it since then. This is probably why Cingular won’t be number one much longer. [...]

]]> By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/comment-page-1/#comment-56043 Thought Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:20:48 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/002694/#comment-56043 mistermix: Some great comments.

No doubt that Sony Ericcson, for instance, only releases on GSM.

Your question regarding VZW and RIM is an interesting one. I certainly hope that VZW is not de-emphasizing BB’s due to the per subscriber fee. To me, that would not be a smart move, because VZW really caters to the enterprise segment. Plus, I believe that VZW only pays the fee to RIM if the client uses BIS…and not BES.

Either way, I believe that for the good of the profits of both VZW and RIM, that RIM needs to release its CDMA versions at an accelerated pace.

]]> By: Thought http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/comment-page-1/#comment-483974 Thought Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/002694/#comment-483974 mistermix: Some great comments.

No doubt that Sony Ericcson, for instance, only releases on GSM.

Your question regarding VZW and RIM is an interesting one. I certainly hope that VZW is not de-emphasizing BB’s due to the per subscriber fee. To me, that would not be a smart move, because VZW really caters to the enterprise segment. Plus, I believe that VZW only pays the fee to RIM if the client uses BIS…and not BES.

Either way, I believe that for the good of the profits of both VZW and RIM, that RIM needs to release its CDMA versions at an accelerated pace.

]]> By: mistermix http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/comment-page-1/#comment-56020 mistermix Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:45:36 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/002694/#comment-56020 RIM isn’t the only GSM-heavy phone company – I do hope to see more CDMA blackberries, but let’s face it, there are a ton of cool GSM-only phones.

Also, I wonder if it works both ways – that VZW isn’t that keen on RIM, and therefore doesn’t push RIM as hard on CDMA devices as, say, Moto. With Win devices, VZW doesn’t have to pay a per-subscriber fee for push email. I think VZW was hoping that the Q would be a blackberry-killer for consumer/small business (i.e., BIS not BES user).

]]> By: mistermix http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-us-market/comment-page-1/#comment-483973 mistermix Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:45:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/11/08/002694/#comment-483973 RIM isn’t the only GSM-heavy phone company – I do hope to see more CDMA blackberries, but let’s face it, there are a ton of cool GSM-only phones.

Also, I wonder if it works both ways – that VZW isn’t that keen on RIM, and therefore doesn’t push RIM as hard on CDMA devices as, say, Moto. With Win devices, VZW doesn’t have to pay a per-subscriber fee for push email. I think VZW was hoping that the Q would be a blackberry-killer for consumer/small business (i.e., BIS not BES user).

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