Comments on: RIM and Nokia need a Manhattan… project, that is.

By: Creative Disruption » Nokia – and the hard slog of taking on Apple and RIM

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:00:23 +0000

[...] RIM and Nokia need a Manhattan… project, that is. (saunderslog.com) [...]

By: Dom DeLuise

Dom DeLuise — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:23:06 +0000

Whatever Mitch. You’re out there in left field as usual with more to say than ability to do. Smoke another one.

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:41:13 +0000

Mitch – that was me in the days when I carried a BlackBerry. The iPhone and Nokia N series phones have webkit based browsers, however. These days RIM and Microsoft stand alone in their regrettably poor browsing experience.

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:55 +0000

I’m not sure RIM needs a new brand Geoff. BlackBerry is recognized the world over. I think what they need to do is to pay attention to the whole customer experience. Apple is killing it’s competition with a single form factor, and a great software experience, when conventional wisdom had said that mobiles were commodity devices and that differentiation would come from personalization and a multitude of form factors.

By: Mitch Brisebois

Mitch Brisebois — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:22:05 +0000

The failure of RIM and Windows Mobile to evolve has boosted the fortunes of Opera and its Mini browser. Even in North America, Opera Mini is a must if you don’t have Safari! I have a surprisingly high number of customers who tell me they have no choice but to use Opera.

I share Boy Genius’ fears. On this Canada Day, we don’t want RIM to flounder as a one-hit-wonder. Where is the “research” in R.I.M.???? c’mon – quit trying to buy hockey teams and invest in software!

R.E.M.?

R.I.P.??

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:02:25 +0000

Well said Alec. I was having this same discussion with a colleague last week.

We can – yet again – trot out Christensen and the “Innovator’s Dilemma”. RIM’s success is so inextricably tied to their ability to deliver an enterprise email solution (text) that are unable or unwilling to recognize that the world is moving away from them (internet/video).

That doesn’t matter though, because it’s just the consumer market that cares about quality mobile internet access – right? If RIM makes radical changes to the Blackberry platform to acknowledge the fact that most services, including email, are moving to a browser interface, won’t they be cutting into their own profit generator? We know how the shareholders and the analysts love that idea.

App World is a disaster. The Blackberry browser experience is embarassing. The native GPS application is laughable. Camera quality is mediocre at best.

My colleague, who is a branding professional, believes that the only way out for RIM is to create a second brand to pursue this “new” market under a different flag without gutting the Blackberry brand for the corporate faithful.

What do you think of that idea?