Also, the Analysts are just down-right wrong. Save extremely poor investment issues, and perhaps bad money management, Blackberry is in it for the long haul. There is simply too many companies heavily invested in the Blackberry infrastructure. The security on these devices is, and always has been second to none. The fact of the matter is, if you need a secure mobile device, you need a Blackberry, because nothing else even gets close to measuring up to it in that regards.

corporations are going to be gobbling those playbook’s up like hotcakes.

expect the same once it makes it’s way onto the phones. perhaps on the storm 3!

buying qnx was rim’s best move and it will pay dividends shortly.

the ipad looks like an overpriced toy next to the playbook

I first used QNX on embedded systems in 1984. It is too valuable to end up another footnote in history. The issues that Android is working to solve – have been solved
in QNX for over two decades. And I really doubt that you will see Android in a “Life At Risk” controller, or see Android certified as a “Real-Time O/S” any time soon.

Phones, Tablets, Desktops, Telecomm Systems, Entire Networks, Other Devices, and even Vehicles, that can work cooperatively to better serve an enterprise’s needs.

RIM… Please Don’t Screw this Up.

i have a storm2 and love it, but of course i wish it had a 1ghz processor, more memory and a higher resolution. that being said, if they release a touchscreen phone with this type of hardware and an even more efficient and flashy os, i think they will clean up.

more people i know use blackberries than anything else, and i bet even more would switch to blackberry if it was more technically impressive.

I like BlackBerry devices, and I can appreciate that RIM is a precarious position. Their existing OS is essentially dead; its codebase is just too old and not up to snuff with the demand of today’s mobile users. Their business model has also been obsoleted. Today, Google can pump tons of resources into the Android OS while HTC can do the same with the hardware. The result is two experts meeting in the middle to make one killer phone. RIM has to do both by themselves, and neither one is easy. Sure, Apple has pulled it off to an extent, but their real success is in their marketing, not their product. Just look at the lack of multi-tasking and Antennagate to see that.

But recreating the BlackBerry OS on QNX is a huge gamble. Who cares if QNX consumes x% less memory than linux-based Android? Tens or hundreds of thousands of developers know linux. How many know QNX? RIM already suffers from trying to entice developers to write apps for their platform. Changing it completely is definitely not going to make that any easier. In the end, users are going to care about what they can DO with the OS, not that is has a POSIX-based tool-chain. On the other hand, RIM just doesn’t have that many options. They have to try something.

I really think RIM should consider taking Google’s free Android OS and then building the BlackBerry specific functionality on top of it, much like HTC or Samsung do with Sense or TouchWiz, respectively, but to a much further extent. They get the best of both worlds–an in-place, highly extensible mobile OS with tons of developers, tools, and other resources already in place and they get the BlackBerry security and usability we are all expect from a BlackBerry. Not to mention they might then be able to focus more on continuing to make great devices, and not having to play eternal catching up the software side. One can dream at least…

Let’s ignore the analysts. Their only purpose is to manipulate stock prices through poorly-worded press releases. If these guys really knew how companies worked, they would be owning and operating their own company.