How Research In Motion Is Copying Apple (And Why It's a Terrible Idea)

• Report this Comment On January 23, 2013, at 6:58 PM, digitally404 wrote:

  RIM makes no intention on licensing its BB10 software until it's been proven in the market.

  Since the majority of RIM's revenues come from service not hardware, it may make sense to license out BB10 and allow the platform to proliferate more and separate itself from hardware altogether.

  Although I do prefer a vertically integrated (hardware and software) much more because when all the pieces and parts come from the same shop, they work... But that's personal preference.

• Report this Comment On January 23, 2013, at 8:25 PM, TimKnows wrote:

  There isn't a slight bit of simlarity between the two companies. Not even close, and now we know that Apple is failing miserably in 2013. RIMM is going to storm the sector and take a huge chunk out of Apple's market share. Yes, I do know that Apple is considering different colors for their handsets, point well taken. Oh boy.

• Report this Comment On January 23, 2013, at 9:14 PM, MW88 wrote:

  You continue to write terrible articles. Stop trying to undermine one of the pioneers of the smart phone

• Report this Comment On January 23, 2013, at 10:27 PM, jwjsprenger wrote:

  It's simple what they must do. Make phones that their customers want to buy. Develop other network services fees such as credit card transactions. Do not worry about Apple or Android. Keep their hard core fans happy. Hey I think this is what they are doing.

• Report this Comment On January 24, 2013, at 6:26 AM, rapag wrote:

  Buying low - selling high. now in my opinion is the time to realize profits by selling Apple-shares, as its market-cap as well as its market-share may have reached its point of culmination and cannot be enlarged much further.

  Because i-phone, i-pad, etc once were products the tech-avangard used first, than the cool and/or sucessful, but in the meantime nearly everybody owns so that there isn't much left of the original excitement and product-identification. It is simple boring to buy a divice everybody else already owns.

  So the question is which products will then be bought. I guess its not android-phones because the OS, which i currenty use, is just not powerful enough, in particular does not allow multi-tasking. In addition, a lot of people do not like google inc. tracking internet behavior and other personal data.

  In my opionen, a lot of people are instead waiting for something new, something that pushes mobile-phone functionality to a new level. That could be Nokia and WinPhones. Disadvantage for them is the already existing near monopoly of microsoft in the pc-arena, because of which lots of people don't want it to on their phone at the same time. As is the case with google, people are afraid that one single company is getting to much personal data, the destribution of which getting out of control.

  Research in Motion in my opinion with its seemingly much more powerful BB 10 OS will offer a solution not only in regard to data-protection and security issues through its certified security standards, its complete separation between personal and business data. As pre-launch reports show, this new OS allows real multitasking ability a lot of people will love.

  My conclusion therefore is that many apple-shareholders as well as potential "apple-class"-consumers will switch to something else. If only a small part decides to switch to RIM, this alone will build bullies sentiment towards its shares and towards the new phones.

• Report this Comment On January 24, 2013, at 8:49 AM, criticalfool wrote:

  No offense but you are so ignorant, keep writing articles for a few pennies per article but please for your own sake, don't be under any illusion that you know anything about RIM or its industry.

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