[citation][nom]getreal[/nom]This is exactly why Apple is so successful![/citation]
I wouldn't count RIM out just yet, people seem to forget that Apple went from near bankruptcy to the largest tech company over the last decade.
Companies in this market can change their horizons on a single successful product.
I don't really understand all the hating going on for RIM in these comments.
Yes blackberry's don't have all the fun games, but they were also never advertised as such, the point of a blackberry was to make people in the business world more connectable, yet maintain the company or individual's privacy and security... Quite frankly the blackberry is still the #1 device from a company perspective.
If security means anything to you (as a general user, it probably doesn't, which is fine) then the blackberry is still the optimum phone.
Multimedia wise it will never live up to the iPhone, it wasn't designed to... Web browsing is slower (actually anything via the 3g connection will be), not because the phone can't keep up hardware wise, but because EVERYTHING IS ENCRYPTED. You go onto Google, your browsing is encrypted, you watch a YouTube video, its encrypted, you write an email, encrypted... Overkill for a general user? Yes, definately, but that is RIM's market, that's what makes them unique, that's why businesses will continue to use them, and why they will survive.
I haven't heard a government complain to apple yet about how they couldn't eavesdrop on their population's data communications, that in itself is a massive indication of the success of RIM's security infrastructure and why people trust them (and why they will always have a specific clientele that will come back again, and again).
If the iPhone and android's key to success is fun & games, then Blackberry's key is security, and they have no competition in that area, not even close.