Comments on: Myth 10: RIM’s BlackBerry Will Contain iPhone Expansion

By: The Future of Mobile Software — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

The Future of Mobile Software — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:08:59 +0000

[...] Myth 10: RIM’s BlackBerry Will Contain iPhone Expansion Apple iPhone 3G sales surpass RIM’s Blackberry Chasing Apple. Contenders hoping to battle the iPhone have a lot of technology and sales acumen to match. RIM, the rival most like Apple today, is splintering its hardware platform to ensure that no segment of the Blackberry market will be as large as the iPhone currently is, tearing its platform prospects between its current broad and simple installed base, and the sophisticated narrow market for its iPhone-like model. [...]

By: Three Disruptions in Technology, and How to Benefit — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:39:53 +0000

[...] Myth 8: iPhone will lose out to Steve Ballmer’s Windows Mobile 7 Myth 10: RIM’s BlackBerry Will Contain iPhone Expansion [...]

By: Apple going BIG, not going home | devins blog

Apple going BIG, not going home | devins blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:09:40 +0000

[...] “RIM has been selling its popular devices for nearly eight years, and achieved peak sales this year after doubling its sales year over year. Apple’s ability to catch up and surpass RIM’s sales in the course of a single year should strike additional fear in the hearts of boardrooms of companies with smartphone platforms that are doing far worse than RIM, including Nokia’s Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. ” [...]

By: _iCeb0x_

_iCeb0x_ — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:45:18 +0000

I forgot to mention, in my last post about the “investment”, that it does have to do with the settlement of an old Apple x Microsoft case, like another commenter said…

You see, Microsoft has and will always try to copy Apple. Even if they have to pay so they don’t gey sued!

By: _iCeb0x_

_iCeb0x_ — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:38:09 +0000

@harrywolf

” Thanks for saying it Dan – its tiresome to hear this nonsense trotted out as if it were a fact.”

There are a lot of myths about this $150M “investment”… The other day, a friend of mine told me that he thinks “Apple is getting so much better ever since Bill Gates bought it!”

I couldn’t believe it.

By: hodari

hodari — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:51:58 +0000

John is MAC Address related to PC only? Well what can I say to a kid who refuses to grow up ?

By: John Muir

John Muir — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:42:46 +0000

@Hodari

I was about to say something about why an Apple greybeard like yourself would go around saying MAC instead of Mac – a classic sign of PC guys who think it has to do with MAC Addresses – until I saw you say DELL as well.

AAPL = Apple’s stock. Mac = their computer line. MAC = I can haz XP SERIALZ PLZ?

By: John Muir

John Muir — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:38:29 +0000

@GQB

It’s a US English v UK English thing. Believe it or not but we can and sometimes do say “Great Britain are” over here! You can detect any Americans nearby: only they turn around to correct you! Collective nouns … nasty stuff indeed.

By: hodari

hodari — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:12:49 +0000

ty – Most hardware companies provide excellent warranty services. Beside the MAC and Sony VIAO I also have HP and Dell. The hard drive crashed a few months back on the Dell. I called their 800 number in UAE and they sent a techician around to my home. All DELL laptops sold in UAE have a two day business turn around or if you want same day service you drop it in their depot!. They replaced the drive – no quibles here. Good stuff. Same with HP and VIAO. The distingusighing line is getty blurry!.

By: hodari

hodari — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:36:19 +0000

“tundraboy { 10.13.08 at 6:10 pm } @hodari

Have you used an iPhone or a Mac or an iPod Touch for an extended period of time? Have people in Dubai been exposed to Apple products? If not, then your judgement is premature. Windows PCs and Nokias indeed dominate there but not because people have judged them to be better than Apple but because people have little knowledge of Apple.”

Yes tundraboy, I started my software development career in London England on an Apple IIe and went through the entire cycle of moving from Apple, to Dos to OS/2 to Windows and to be come a CTO of an IT company that uses WINCE.NET and other products.

I was using a MACBOOK Pro and recently moved to Sony Viao TZ I did not like the Macbook AIR without a CD/DVD writer.

As for people in Dubai – they have been exposed to MAC. There are several stores that sell MAC products here. MAC products were the defacto in the pre-press and the printing industry. No More!. I have seen windows replacing most (NOT ALL) of the MAC in the pre-press, printing as well as the publishing industry and trust me this industry is huge in UAE and Middle East.

For the record, I have never stated that Apple is doomed now, I would not be holding a huge portfolio of Apple stocks if I thought they will go under – please go back and read again what I stated.

I also never stated that Dubai is a country on the technological lead – neither is the US for the record. And what difference does it make if a country is built using foreign technologies or labour force?. Where exactly are the MACBOOK, IPHONE etc being manufactured? In USA? I doubt it!.