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Originally Posted by I8UB4
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Originally Posted by jletendre
It's the lacking of games! .. I think you will find a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP the perfect device for you, they just need to get email working on them. If the majority of the AppStore is going to be entertainment focused Apple will never get Enterprise traction and be labeled just another ipod gadget.
Simplistic? I think people have been living under a rock the past year or so.
Telenav - pretty much the mobile standard for GPS mapping. (I think they even have some "3-D")
Bloomberg for Blackberry - pretty much exact copy of the Bloomberg desktop experience, prob never heard or used this since while I'm making $$$ your moaning the lack of quality gaming on the Blackberry.
E-Trade for Blackberry - ditto
WorldMate live - fantastic travel tool for road warriors
InfoSpace Findit! - Best use of LBS I've seen yet.
While I agree the BB web experience is not as robust, it's more then functional and when you visit a properly formatted site for mobility (most of the major ones are now) it's actually a faster experience vs. the constant tap, expand, tap, zoom aspect of the Iphone. Just give me the data.
So you can see there are two different markets out there, professionals who depend on their device to communicate and conduct business, an extension of their office (or in some cases the office is mobile) and casual consumers who have different needs and want nicer graphics, a robust web experience etc.
I feel most of us are the expection and often carry more then one device.
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I have to say I agree with Numetheus on this one. A perfect example is the lack of a decent document viewer/editor on BBs. I switched from a Treo to BB about 4 years ago, and I have been distraught about the lack of a decent word/excel/pdf viewer and editor on BBs ever since. You talk about business applications, this is the most basic business application one needs. Opening an attachment on an email, saving it to a memory card, editing it, sending it back... I just upgraded to OS 4.5 on my curve, and it now includes Documents to Go - well, sort of. The fact is, until they upgrade the BIS software in N. America or a company upgrades to the latest BB Enterprise software for their server, Docs to Go is useless. You can't open a word document and properly read it, edit it or save it.
Keep in mind that I had a free version of Documents to Go on my Treo five years ago, and BB still hasn't been able to come up with a decent solution!!!
I currently use Repligo, which works great, but you can't edit documents and it costs $79/year.
Don't you think that if RIM had a good SDK that somebody would have developed a decent 3rd party app for this years ago? I guarantee that the iPhone will have a GREAT 3rd party app for this within months of launch.
I love almost everything about BBs (except this and the poor web and multimedia experience - which I use for business too). BB really needs to get on the ball and encourage 3rd party application development or they will be left behind. What Apple is doing is brilliant. Creating a great application development tool, giving it out for free, and letting every developer in the world take a crack at coming up with the next killer app. And Apple still gets 30% of everything they sell. |
Exactly. While I love BlackBerry, I have to hand it to Apple though, they will get more developer support and high quality software made for it than BB.
RIM really needs to get off their asses and work on things that count, like a 1st rate SDK to compete with the iPhone toolchain so people come out and produce better software.