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We simply have to admit that Apple is nailing this and it is one of the reasons they have people lining up overnight at stores around the world, and products sold out for months. These people aren’t hypnotized zombies, they simply love beautifully designed products that are user centric and work how they are supposed to work.

Also I read a new (to me) term today: ABA - Anything But Apple. Haters now have their own acronym. Good for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY

Fuck yes.

Who names their company "RIM" anyway?

Hmmm...I wouldn't mind having a RIM Job.

I can't even imagine what it must be like to work at a company that competes with Apple.

Wait, yes I can.

"Team, we're going to produce a product that competes directly with Apple's [insert iWhatever here]. Before I go on are there any questions?"

"If I just quit now can I get a severance?"

"Team, we're going to produce a product that competes directly with Apple's FACETIME. Before I go on are there any questions?"

It's like deciding to try and win a marathon, and starting 3 hours late. Why bother?

http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/rim-respo ... ed-by-bgr/

Wow,

RIM have been around longer than iPods, iPhones and iPads... if anything i'd say they got lazy, took a nap, woke up and Apple had run past leaving nothing but a trail of smoke and a link to download iTunes.

I'll tell you all right now that the Steve Jobs Keynote from '97 - which is the link in the RIM letter - is nothing short of RIVETING.




My God. Everytime I think I can't admire Steve Jobs any more than I already do, something else happens that kicks it up a notch.


The amazing thing is his total candor and almost 'fuck you' attitude throughout.

At 50:40 some dude tells Jobs that on several points he doesn't know what he's talking about.

LoopStationZebra wrote:At 50:40 some dude tells Jobs that on several points he doesn't know what he's talking about.

And his answer?

"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it."

He pretty much summed up the RIM exec's whole point in the open letter…

…15 years ago.

Pretty sad that that's supposed to be some profound principle.

^ no doubt. hard to believe we (people) can be this bass akwards.

i guess we have Field of Dreams to blame... "if you build it, they will come".

or in the case of Apple - "if you build it, they will cum".

Another massive app sale!

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/07/holi ... hoose-from

None of which will be compatible yet with the iCade