@geoffrey n @ jack, I don't think am a hater of blackberry seeing as I have owned several of their handsets namely the 8830 and some other more obscure one. Its an awesome platform but felt rather limiting for me so I bailed. I think the major problem they have is loosing the coolness factor and their pricey tag. Why is a bold still in the 30k range? is it justifiable? ok maybe am a hater but for my needs and most of the people I know not hooked up to a corporate network, iOS, android and windows phone are superior. for the mass market anyway. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Jac <jack.gathoni@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mark
I believe RIM has relized that they are lossing the market a bit fast and by licesing their OS to 3rd parties they can continue to generating revenues to their past customers who ahevgone to androids, windows and iphones. How? For example I would buy BBM app on my android just to continue enjoying communicating 'securely' to my BBM contacts which I had before migrating to Android.
I think this will also give people who have never used a BB chance to get a taste of BB features and this might translate to future BB sales.
I believe RIM could boost BB sales by lifting or reducing the cost CAL and BES licenses than licensing BB OS to third parties which reduces the from a fully fledged phone provider to another mobile application developer!
They are doomed I believe.
Just my two cents!
On 1/6/12, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
what I was asking was which manufacturer would be interested in using blackberry os when they have their own?
I don't think there will be a scramble for it. Ave used the Playbook before and its awesome hardware n software.
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Not sure either, have never rooted a Play book. Wouldn't really encourage it. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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