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Let me explain. When a BB is bound to a BES in the corporate infrastructure its abilities are significantly limited to Intranet, Email, and the corporate infrastructure. Many suits cannot install 3rd party apps and those that figure out how to get NO support until its purged and newer IT Policy's & Groups leave a disdainful mouthful as they cannot get those back. This is not the same as the computer revolution that so many bought PC's because its what they where trained to use and used to and can do so much more at home. This is a mobile device that is limited and they have NO perception and limited resources to find/see that its SO MUCH more capable and more stable: than any other mobile smartphone platform.

The recent WES2010 & Investor Video press tease of BlackBerry 6 was a VERY smart move and RIM NEEDS to heavily push this on the TV, airwaves, and PRINT (Magazines: Time, Globe & Mail, New Yorker, Esquire, etc)! Also the video's shipped & preloaded in their devices NEED to have more substance in them at WHAT the device can do – not useless videos of kid artists that are up & coming that the target market cannot even relate too. Seriously I feel creepy viewing that effeminate guy singing a love song in the video that shipped on my Bold 9700. Though I give them props that Justin “beaver” hasn't been on a device, yet.

This video of BB 6 specifically and significantly targets the USE of the device – the power & versatility – to 3 target audiences VERY well with just 1 device. 1 slight change required; the last guy dancing using the social apps … still looks a bit old to be in the high-school locker background (better fit in a college dorm).

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I do admit that iPhone and some Android phone look very cool, but I had an iPhone for a year and I found it to be a poor phone. Most of the apps I wanted really didn't work they were always crashing and as a phone it was horrible. I had to go to Mexico a few times that year for meetings and it would never connect properly (reliably) to a network. My BB did so it wasn't the mexican network.

After a while I tired of the iPhone as we do with all gadgets, and went back to BB because it worked. I own 3 macs I'm not an apple hater (although I do hate people who can't admit that apple does produce some lousy products).

I think the danger for RIM is that if they don't get cool apps and a faster more stable phone people will not switch to them when they find their iPhone and Adroid phones fall short. They just won't view BB as an option. I had a BB so after a year it was an easy decision to ditch it and get a new Bold.

I also hope they bring out a slider. I like the bigger screen but love the BB keyboards.

OS 6 looks fine to me. (In fact I think the icons on android phones leave a bit to be desired) let's hope it comes with speed and easier app development.

Yes, hardware reliability and likeability was an issue, but not the only one by far…

HP might not even be trying to use webOs for smartphones at all, it could just be tablet related use. Nobody really knows. Again, I don't think Palm's problem was simply hardware.

A lot of people want each company to follow the same formula and it's boring…

Blackberry was developed as a communication tool specifically for the business market, the very same market as Forbes. If Fortt and Copeland meant to suggest that Apple's I-phone or Google's Android are more technologically advanced and better suited to the general public market, they ought to have said that, rather than insulting a substantial segment of their own market. This was just plain stupid!

I have these facts for you to think for a while: one, they have the least workable API and publishing program for developers even though they claim to be committed to the contrary; second, name one innovation they have given to the mobile industry in the last 5 years.

iPhone and Android are not the nintendo of the mobile industry, more like the Playstation if you want, and nintendo is more restrictive like RIM, you can have linux, web browsing, home theater and movies on a PS and an XBOX and be sure to think there will be more uses to both xbox and ps in the future, that is what Android and Iphones are…while nintendo will continue to do the same. Difference is, nintendo continues to innovate in their market.

please, name one innovation, breakthrough or something being done better from RIM in the last 5 years.

I don't know if I would like the tradeoff that would have to be made to get “dumb” people to recognize BB's.

RIM/Blackberry are the Playstation/XBOX of the smartphone industry. They were originally made for SMB, and large businesses to cominuicate. Thats why all of their apps are more gearded toward the professional on the go who cannot sit at his desk and work.

IPhones are the Nintendo of the smartphone industry. They cater to the younger demographic, which likes to download music/videos and play games. Why else wouldnt RIM/Blackberry come out with apps that have womans breast bouncing and porn. These are all available on the IPHONE.

And with more younger kids wanting cell phones they will go with the popular choice, sidekicks or IPHONES.

Basically the Blackberry Brand is for adults and professional and shouldnt deviate from that, but just add more consumer friendly apps then they would be unbeatable. But for the most protection and security choose Blackberry. The only reason there is an IPHONE is because there was a Blackberry already out and Apple wanted to tap into that market.

The thing is that Blackberry is way behind the rest when talking about innovation. There is nothing in a Blackberry hardware or OS core that is innovative today and that you can not have better on another phone. BlackBerry Messenger however is the main important thing you can find as to the apps it includes. BES? sure, it was pretty good, but now you have Google Apps with VERY good integration for free…also, Microsoft and Apple are coming with nice iterations for this. Also push technology…it is great…but old already.

I mean, WebOS and Pre/Pixi has hotspot application integration…we are fighting to have tethered modem capabilities and they already share 3G internet trough the wifi antenna. Iphone has Haptic technology (the best out there), plus accelerometer (also the best to the moment and they were first)…each new cycle, both android and iphone comes out with several innovations.

Then after core OS and Hardware comes the APIs for webdevelopers, the online store and the way they push this. Apple really hit this and Android followed…Rim was first in the smartphone industry, but they didnt thought on doing this. A commercial focused phone is not a good investment now that consumer phones can do both and do it great…they were not first, but they are better.

I have a Bold 9000 with OS5.0, and have had a storm2, a 8320 curve and a 7160. I liked all of them and enjoyed every moment, but now i can see how the others are way beyond my bold. I'm a power user and the only thing i would miss is BBMessenger. RIM has to stop focusing in several models a year and focus in a 2 or 3 models and one OS…all that can take the heat for a year. Innovate or die? you are right…i even have been a true believer in that RIM should be bought by either Apple or Google, now i think HP could be a very good choice too.

When you compare it to other devices out there the BlackBerry sounds old and tired by comparison. The truth is that the BlackBerry is more than simply the sum of it's parts. You hear lots of reviewers comparing devices and they skip right over the most important part: Communication.

Reviewers and gadget geeks give all the devices a big green check-mark when summing up a platform's email and IM abilities but I think it deserves much more than that. If it were out of 10, BlackBerry would be 10 out of 10 and all others would be 8 or below.

Maybe some flashy animation distracted them from what makes up 90% of the Smart in Smartphones: Quick, easy, reliable, and secure communications. Ever had a rapid email exchange or an IM conversation with a BlackBerry user? Almost as if they're at their PC giving you their undivided attention. Nice, isn't it?

Don't get me wrong – I dislike iPhones quite a bit. But admittedly, the Android, HP/Palm and especially Windows 7 Phone are starting to grow more appealing to me. The “evolution” of OS 5 to OS 6 just didn't do enough in my opinion to keep up with the rest of the pack.