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I wonder how many free devices that came with pizza's or Dockers are still active 6 months after they are purchased.
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I love these Good people. How about 99%? You must know for a fact that $0 blackberry, like $0 high-end phone, comes with 2-3 years contract. Breaking that contract on 6-th month will usually result in penalties as high as full cost of the device plus more.
You know that for a fact yet imply that people dump consumer blackberries after 6 months trial.
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Good has NEVER focused on the consumer/prosumer market.
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Bad for Good. If you can't diversify, you will die.
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Our solution requires access to the Exchange server with no consumer version available.
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Here comes Microsoft with its free of charge add-on to Exchange. It will crush Good and RIM in corporate market like IE crushed Netscape.
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BB, on the other hand, is marketed heavily towards the consumer market, albeit by the carriers.
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True. RIM realized corporate market got too many new players and diversified into consumer market. GoodLink can't.
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Free BB with pizza or 4 tires is not a target at the business market.
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As long as it sells with 3 years unbreakable
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The analogy you make regarding Mac is true, althought I am of the opinon you have them backwards. RIMM, with its proprietary solution is the Macintosh. Apple had 60% of the PC market at one time and then got crushed by solutions based upon industry standards.
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Here I do agree with you. RIM is like Apple: has tight control over hardware quality, has software tuned for hardware they produce, Java VM for RIM is like BSD for Apple- reliable kernel, and anyone who can program for Java can write software for blackberry. You don't even have to have blackberry to write software for it: free of charge blackberry emulator from RIM will run just fine on your desktop PC.
Yes, RIM is like Apple, and it may as well end up at 5% of mobile market.
GoodLink is more like company that was selling TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.1. What was that company name? What did happen to it when Microsoft released Windows95 with embedded TCP/IP support, providing data connectivity for free?