Comment Re:The best thing that RIM can do- (Score 1) 55
I like the idea in principle...but I don't see how they move past...and this just baffles me...the whole idea of me sending my emails through someone else's servers when...ugh...it makes my skin crawl.
Okay, my blood's up. Blackberry...it's on.
I don't even know where to start so I'll start with the Curve. I do believe that this product died a very swift death but that it made it out the door in the first place is beyond me. You had to *press down* on the screen to get it to register an input. WHATWHATWHAT? Who greenlighted that? Steve Jobs would have had an aneurysm had someone given that to him and told him it was their new iPhone prototype. Then he would have fired the entire chain of people who allowed that phone to progress beyond some engineer's failed try at solving a problem. They were trying to make the touchscreen feel like a keypad...and that is so wrong I don't even know where to begin. Let's put corners on the wheels of our cars so we can have speed bumps all the time...solved that speeding problem...next?
I'll just make a short snipe at RIM/whoever and the whole patent shennanigans. RIM is one of the biggest patent thieves going. The amount of money they've extorted from others sickens me. I could write a novel on this one.
One might call RIM brilliant in one way...getting shedloads of people to have their email forcibly routed to a third party before delivery. None of this is encrypted...so you're giving RIM access to your email account. I don't care what their "license agreement" says or doesn't say, I'll bet there's at least one douchebag at RIM that gets his jollies off by reading CEOs emails. Certainly, email is unsecure to begin with, but to just give them...nay, have them taken by a third party before delivery...WHAT THE FUCK?
ESPECIALLY WHAT THE FUCK when the company has consistently proven to the world that they suck at life. I honestly didn't even know that it was possible to build networks that large with massive built in single points of failure. They're raking in bazillions for RUNNING A FREAKING SERVER FARM and they still manage to fuck it up every year or two. What would you do if your power company failed in its core competency for three days...across an entire continent?