Not saying it's not useful, but can someone tell me what these e-mail apps are and how they help?
I just use hotmail, gmail and yahoo by going to the website. I know I'm totally missing something, just don't know what. Never bothered to learn/inquire.
Ya, reviews look pretty meh. Using Xoom as an indicator, can't expect much sales-wise. Maybe slightly more because of brand loyalty and the commercial market. Then again, why not just get everyone a fully functional 10-12" Thinkpad or Macbook Air?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/14/editorial-rim-weve-been-here-before/By now you've no doubt read or at least heard about the New York Times interview where RIM's co-CEOs wound up asking most of the questions and challenged conventional wisdom about the company, or seen the BBC interview that Mike Lazaridis put an abrupt end to (see below, if you haven't). Those both offer plenty of juicy morsels for folks like us to chew on, but they're also indicative of a broader sense of frustration from the company that's getting difficult to ignore. One that is strikingly similar to what we've recently seen from another company that grew to dominate on the world stage, became a figure of national pride in its home country, and is now struggling to reinvent itself in the face of stiff competition: Nokia. To get an idea of how similar the two situations are, we only need to look back to 2009 --admittedly an eternity in the smartphone business, but not really that long ago. While Nokia still dominated the worldwide smartphone market with Symbian by year's end, there were clear signs that was about to change, with Nokia's share slipping a full ten percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone --largely at the expense of Apple and, yes, RIM. After that, it wasn't long before the company's CEO found himself in the hot seat, while Gartner and countless others began tossing around phrases like "re-arranging the deck chairs." We all know what happened next. Now the numbers are painting a similarly difficult position for RIM. According to a recent Gartner report, RIM's market share is expected to continue a slow decline to just eleven percent by 2015 (long after its switch to QNX), while Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 (boosted in part by Nokia's acceptance) are all projected to continue to grow or hold their own, and leave RIM in a relatively distant fourth place by 2015. Of course, those projections are just that... projections, and RIM could well still swing things in its favor if it makes the right moves --even if the PlayBook isn't quite the magic bullet it was hoping for. It won't, however, if it continues with a headstrong approach and ignores any criticism --or worse, continues to vent its frustrations in public. I'm not pretending to know what all those right moves might be, but RIM could learn a few things from the hard questions Nokia posed to itself when it finally came to the realization that it was a fading giant. In his now famous "burning platform" memo, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the company had to choose whether to "build, catalyze or join an ecosystem." With its slow shift to QNX as its primary operating system, continued promises about the current BlackBerry OS, and half-hearted embrace of Android apps, it's increasingly starting to look like RIM is trying to do all three, but only succeeding in tying itself to a sinking ship.
Not saying it's not useful, but can someone tell me what these e-mail apps are and how they help?
I just use hotmail, gmail and yahoo by going to the website. I know I'm totally missing something, just don't know what. Never bothered to learn/inquire.
Ya, reviews look pretty meh. Using Xoom as an indicator, can't expect much sales-wise. Maybe slightly more because of brand loyalty and the commercial market. Then again, why not just get everyone a fully functional 10-12" Thinkpad or Macbook Air?
You don't normally get near-instant push notification with simple webmail on a mobile device. My iPhone 4 does Gmail and Hotmail with Exchange ActiveSync protocol, so I get push support. It's like the Blackberry experience in that regard.
It's pretty unusual for a company to issue mid quarter guidance that bad, unless they expect horrible numbers.Research in Motion’s shares plunged as much as 11 per cent in after-hours trading after the BlackBerry maker issued a surprise profit warning due to increasing competition from Apple and Google as well as delays in the launch of an updated generation of smartphones.
RIM said on Thursday that it had cut its sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter because of slower-than-expected demand for its ageing smartphones, which have begun to look increasingly dated alongside the iPhone and other touchscreen-based handsets.
Dam....they have an office in my area....looks like i got even more competition after my layoff
Don't corporations still have a firm grip on BB usage?
My GF, myself, my two friends all have BB from work.
Don't corporations still have a firm grip on BB usage?
My GF, myself, my two friends all have BB from work.
Everyone is saying RIM is doomed (and they may well be) but the logic just doesn't hold up for me.
Is Exchange / ActiveSync protocol "secure?" Android and iDevices support that....
For corporate email, is there really a secure alternative yet? Is there any way to sync public contact folders with iPhone or Android? Simply rooting an iPhone or Android = no security at all.
...
Is Exchange / ActiveSync protocol "secure?" Android and iDevices support that.
I think the MobileMe Control Panel allows this for iDevices. Still not 100% sure how secure it is.Not in the way that BES makes a blackberry secure. A blackberry can be locked down via BES, and as far as I know, there is no way for the user or a thief to overcome the security restraints. If apps are blocked from being installed, then you will never get an app installed, period.
The reason they're losing, though, is that the price differential is simply getting too large. I realize there are a lot of armchair IT folks here, myself included, but you'd be surprised when you see what it costs to deploy BES, handsets, and all of the licensing costs involved. RIM has pushed corporate to the point where they're looking at other devices, especially Exchange + Windows Phone/Windows Mobile, as "good enough" given the price point.
I've found the exact opposite. For a company that has a monopoly on secure mobile email, they charge relatively little. Devices are practically given away as long as you are renewing 2 year contracts. $1/day unlimited global data plans are available only because of the RIM global data network. BES costs (licensing and support) are a tiny fraction of the entire messaging solution, which likely includes Exchange or Lotus/Domino, hardware, and administration and support resources. I think you could get away with under $10,000/year for BES with 1,000 users.
You probably know more than me on the pricing, then. I admit I'm an armchair IT guy. I haven't been involved in this sort of thing in years.
Windows Mobile pretty much is given away, though. Low cost handsets, no licensing fees if you're already paying for Exchange (IIRC).
I've never worked for an enterprise with only 1000 users, though. The smallest company I've worked for is 25,000 people. I'm now with the largest department in the federal govt, but I'm sure we catch a break for being government and sheer volume.
I think the MobileMe Control Panel allows this for iDevices. Still not 100% sure how secure it is.