BB will continue to live because internet isn't fast enough outside Europe and North America, while their demand is geographically shifting out as well. In Dubai for example, everyone has a blackberry, regardless of whether they have a phone. It's not even considered a phone anymore, it's in it's own genre, used to organize your life. Two reasons: internet is slower than the US/Europe in most countries and we text a lot more, whick makes BBM useful since it is significantly faster than any other texting client (whatsapp, viber, etc) when internet speed is relevant. They'll be fine as long as they keep company with presidents and kings.
If only someone figures out a way to crack the BBM and have it as an option (bootlegged) for Androids or iPhones, that would effectively kill Blackberry as we know it. I don't know if that's even legal, but most countries in Asia don't give a **** about those copyright stuff.
I remember seeing an article about a year ago saying that Blackberry internally has an Android BBM application they were testing for release. I guess that never happened. I wonder if BB can succeed without being a presence in the US market at all, similar to Nokia before WP7.
True. Mobile technology is definitely different in other parts of the world. So I can agree with your statement. In Mexico, Nextel (Sprint let them keep the name and sold off their Latin American division to a separate company) iDEN phones with the chirp push to talk are extremely popular still lol
Sorry brosef but BB aint goin anywhere. I am the biggest proponent of Android you can find but even I concede that the IOS/Android domination is a clearly US idea. BB has a stranglehold in South America and tons of other countries due to BBM which many peeps I know are addicted to. They can restructure and powerhouse profits by focusing in their niche markets...theres money to be made by being RIM, just not in the USA
I wish it was going somewhere though, brah I was mainly being a hater and thinking about the U.S only in my original post lol. I know they can't die that quickly. However, I think the rest of the world will eventually catch up I just seem to have a big problem with RIM thinking everything is alright. Sure, in certain markets things are fine and will be that way for the next 3-5 years or so but by then, who knows what people will be using . Like Joshua Tolpolsky said in that article I posted a few pages back , most Blackberry users are "caged" in. Either because their employer is heavily invested in the Blackberry eco system , they're still under contracts, or that's the only thing they know or are used to (India, Asia, etc) They need something that will make people wanting to go back to RIM, or something that truly has a wow factor. Remember when you felt like a bad ass when you had your nice high end Blackberry? ( I know some people don't care about that stuff and it may seem silly, but it's the similar effect and vibe that Apple currently gives off)
I heard about that too and was really hopeful. Maybe it was just a fanboy rumor and nothing more. What would Blackberry profit for providing an Andorid BBM Application? I still have hopes this would happen. I think in Asia it's Blackberry, followed by iPhone and then Android at a distant third. I hope one of the latter two can come out with a BBM compatible app.
Scionxa, shut the heck up already. There are tons of people that I see still using Blackberry because they like to text and it's freaking cheap. The Blackberry Playbook is also an awesome little device if you ever get the chance to use it.
Shut the heck up already? What did I do to you? You'd think I'd get responses like that coming from iSheep but apparently that's not the case. If you would actually read what I've posted , you'd see that I kinda redacted what I said earlier. I have gotten the chance to use it. It sucks. That's my opinion. Come at me bro. I'll give you my address so you can come over here and whoop my ass!! brah!
There are apps for that However, they're not as effective if you don't have a decent mobile data connection. Push to talk has been revamped by Sprint using CDMA instead of iDEN but no one really seems to care for them anymore They're extremely useful for business use though. Certain businesses of course.
The question is not what their market share is right now, because it is true they still have considerable market share in Asia, UK, Canada...etc However they are losing market share at a ridiculous pace everywhere. In the UK Android doubled it's market share last year, where as RIM dropped by almost 10%.
