AmazoRIM? MicrokiaRIM?

[geForce]

None of those alternate design Blackberries were as popular as the classic design though. Even you keep going back to the Bold design.
Which is kind of weird because the Torch and that slider ones look the best. I guess the phone's aesthetics don't make as much of a difference as the phone's core design does. I think Apple realized that about the iPhone which is why they didn't change the look. You know they are extremely capable of making an iPhone that looks totally different, just like how they totally revamped their iPods, but they didn't for the iPhone for a reason.

[Duncan]

haha, lets just face it, there are only so many ways a phone can look... and these days, it's either the iphone touch screen look, or the bb tactile keyb look, or the classic non smart phone variations... either way, the point i was trying to make is that rim hasn't done much with their look either... and them having come out with torch designs with the touch screen just means they're imitating the iphone to compete in the touch screen market... you don't see apple develop a blackberry imitation...

don't get me wrong, by no means am i an apple fanboy... to be honest, i hate apple (albeit a little less these days) but i just can't deny that it provides more for the average consumer than blackberry does. Also, my next phone could very well be an android... i have no allegiances to apple, i just don't see how you can say bb is the "bees knees" as you put it when you like it for the emailing and word processing... especially since ios/android do those things just as well unless you need government level encryption for your emails which you don't haha...

can't deny that the iphone look hasn't changed over the years, but the argument that tweaks are no reason to buy a product is kinda like saying why bother buying a new computer? i don't need new hardware, that up to date software needs to run smoothly... or i don't need the new os since my old os runs my 1990's applications fine, and so what if my old os isn't supported anymore... it's the same reason why people buy new computers, new cars, new lotsa things.. they all look the relatively the same, but the newer products have more to offer than the older products...

haha.. i jacked another thread

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[Duncan]

ok, RIM gets effort marks... but they still failed lol

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[Duncan]

lol... i think you're generalizing iphone users like i'm generalizing bb users... not every iphone user is like your brother

that being said, this is fun... haha

[joel]

from my non-smart phone user standpoint, i have to admit irregardless of what they are selling apple has a huge edge with marketing their products. iphone, ipads, macs, etc..

i agree with Nat that they don't seem to try to create a lot of diversity in their product lines. but for the time being it seems purposeful for them that they do that and they are having a great deal of success in doing so. they've tried to design one product that attempts to cover the largest market base of users.

BB does seem to provide more different form factors/designs/layouts to suit the different needs for different users. I don't know if their doing so has ultimately affected the overall sales of their product though. But there are other more obvious reasons for their market share loss. It's my uneducated opinion that the biggest reason is due to the lack of support for the os/app/development community.

But once the mass market gets behind one product, it's usually pretty hard for them to lose the loyalty of their consumers unless they really drop the ball.

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