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Rob Enderle writes:

The iPhone isn’t that great and the Android OS is woefully insecure. Come Jan. 30, if mobile users take a hard look at their devices and then look at the new BlackBerry 10, RIM could be in for a windfall.

Sounds like a potentially interested. Frequent readers will note I’m quietly hoping that BB10 will prove to be good and make a decent splash. That said, if I take a good, hard look at my iPhone… I love it. It’s so beautiful.

What follows, however, as justification for his opinion that BlackBerry 10 could be a big success and 2013 prove to be RIM’s year, is the biggest, steaming pile of rubbish this side of the new year. Take, for example:

Apple’s biggest failures were Lisa and the Apple Server, both created on Steve Jobs’ watch (Lisa was even his product, initially)

Yeah, but when were these released? Like…30 years ago? This is trolling so hard it isn’t even believable. Enterprise IT was barely even nascent 30 years ago. And you know what else was “created on Steve Jobs’ watch”? The iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes and App Store to name a few. And if we go back 30 years? Oh yeah, he created the Apple I & II and the Macintosh.

If the market spits up Apple and Android devices for their inability to meet business user needs, RIM stands alone—or will, on Jan. 30, 2013 and the days that follow the BlackBerry 10 launch—as the company ready to embrace them. This is an unprecedented opportunity. As a result, 2013 could be an amazing year for RIM.

Wither Windows Phone? Ok, I’ll cut him some light slack; Windows Phone isn’t exactly flying off the shelves—Oh wait, nor are BlackBerrys.

I do hope that RIM have a good 2013 and I also hope that BlackBerry 10 is a success. The promo looks nice and I definitely have a soft spot for underdogs. This article, however, is not the way to convince people that this will be the case. It’s poorly argued and wrong.

2013 will be RIM’s year if their product is great and they launch it will (unlike, say, Palm with the Pre). If it really is any good, it should absolutely trounce Windows Phone. BlackBerry still reigns in the enterprise, but its reign is ending. This is their last chance.

I guess we’ll know everything in a couple of weeks.

Much, much nicer hardware from RIM. Not stellar, but certainly better than Samsung.

I think RIM will make a much bigger splash with BB10 than Microsoft did with Windows Phone.

It is amazing what the iPhone did to the smartphone landscape.

Geller:

Microsoft’s latest strategy of trying to make a no compromise tablet has resulted in, you guessed it, compromise. It’s not as polished as an iPad, it’s more limited in almost every possible way, it’s slow, clunky, unresponsive at times, offers a worse display, weighs more, and is thicker. Plus it costs over $100 more when you factor in a Touch Cover or Type Cover keyboard. Plus, you can’t even run Windows applications even though you get the actual Windows desktop.

…and it gets better from there. Geller gets it dead-on. Definitely worth a quick read (though I’m less sure about his opinion on RIM).

Side note: I hadn’t looked at BGR in ages after its reporting became diabolical. Now it has a nice new look and some good opinion pieces. Good job.

Every now and then I go and check crackberry.com for a good laugh.

This is so many kinds of awful it’s too funny for words.

Probably the most stupid thing a PR rep can say about his company.

“Oh, hi, I’m looking to buy your horse.”
“Horses aren’t for everyone.”
“Fine then, I won’t buy your horse.”

(I recommend clicking all the links in this post and reading them)

Combine the link above with the following:

This. And This. Oh, and this too:

Never, ever forget this. Android is a rip-off product. It was designed to beat BlackBerry and pivoted to challenge Apple.  It’s still trying to catch up today. It still isn’t there. Why? Because the foundations are for a phone built for non-touchscreen devices* with a keyboard based on a ripped-off Java base.

The whole thing is a rip-off. The design ripped-off the iPhone after it ripped-off the BlackBerry and the code is ripped-off Java.

Now it’s ripping off consumers, convincing them to buy junk hardware with long contracts and shit software.

Android is a weed. It is disgusting. It should have been a webOS-iOS race.

*Note how only with 4.0 have they gotten rid of buttons, by making ever-present touchscreen buttons. Those are still buttons. They’re soft buttons in disguise. What shitty design. Android sucks.

RIM’s demise among my kids’ generation had more to do wtih everyone leaving BBM than anything else. For as long as all of their friends were on BBM, they all wanted to be on it too.

Yes. The hardware problems came second. Geeks were obsessed over specs and missed what was really happening: iPhones became cool. It wasn’t about specs: it was about perception and what you could do. Now it’s really about specs because the differences are so abundantly clear.