4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:1cc6737c-fbbd-4653-830d-
fdd6d8f50ccf@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

> Now Larry I know you are and old crank but under perform means "we
> think their future profit potential sucks".
> If you like that type of investment like RIMM I will contact you off
> list and introduce you to Guidodo who will sell you a bunch of
> stock ;>)
>
> BTW I have seen a number of other analysts that now suggest selling
> RIMM based on concern the demand is growing exponentially for Apple's
> iPhone with the new App store open.
>
> Did you see the latest from NY Times and David Pouge?
>
>
>

RIM has a niche that's a different niche than iPhone. RIM is a business
tool, and is bought by the business community which is very hard to move
off something it likes. Look how long they carried their Palm Pilots.

iPhone is a kiddie toy, another MP3 player and video game with a built-
in sellphone. God, man, look through the app store! See any SSH
software? How about a turn-by-turn GPS app? See any job
planning/timeline? ...any spreadsheet? ....any word processing?
.....time and materiel logging? ...printer drivers? Hell, it won't even
do a simple cut and paste on a notepad from the browser because it
doesn't support cut and paste and that wouldn't matter because you can
only have one app running at a time! It's not going to be a business
tool until it starts acting like a BUSINESS COMPUTER...email, SSH,
remote desktop, company infrastructure machine the IT department at
Smiley's Machine Tool and Storm Door can program, itself, in C++ or
Python or one of the other programming languages they use. IT won't buy
it because it's all closed up! They dumped Windows for Linux to get an
OPEN SYSTEM their programmers could control without some silly
licensing/money laundering scheme like Apple or Micro$oft or Sun Sparc
or (put your fav flavor of proprietary closed crap here). Advertising
and hype isn't going to make it happen like it does with the kiddies.
IT gives a shit less if it's "cool". Besides, it has a CAMERA that's
forbidden in the building to save the spying of proprietary company
secrets, real or imagined. NOONE's going to allow ANYTHING with a lens
in the building. Disabled? Bullshit! NO CAMERAS ALLOWED, just like
the Pentagon.

iPhone is no threat to the Blackberry business machines firmly
entrenched into business society at all. You boys are dreamin'!