http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/ Engadget Comments for RIM CEO claims we are staring 'down the barrel of a capacity crunch,' should all get BlackBerrys to prevent it http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
Yeah right, carrying phone with small screen in 2010? You must be kidding!

]]>Feb 17th 2010 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/If you were the CEO of RIM who have only just realised people don't want tiny screened phones with no touch screens (until recently), very few decent apps, then you would be grasping at any reason why someone would want a blackberry. ]]>Feb 17th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
You do have to wonder whether anybody beyond the carriers actually cares about Blackberry's efficient use of bandwidth. Enterprise buyers don't care (they care about security and standards). Consumers don't care (they care about apps). So what's the point? ]]>Feb 17th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/never mind the small screen. BB is not really that efficient and lets not forget that it is Apple that created WebKit ( mostly ). If BB users are using 1/5 of the bandwidth it has nothing to do with iPhone and Android being inefficient. It has everything to do with the ship plans that u get with BBs and the small screen. Sure BBs appeal to 40+ customers but lets not forget that this is not the future and hardly the fastest growing or the largest consumer group. And there is now way that a 40+ can convince a 15+ that a BB is cool … ]]>Feb 17th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/


Keep thinking about that.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/maaaan, seriously. this guy is one of the most craptacular CEOs i've heard in a while. maybe he doesn't use his product much, or he hasn't really used the competition (iphone, winmo, android). but have you ever tried USING a blackberry for anything other than emailing/messaging. thats all the damn thing is. i swear its like a sidekick for grownups. sure the many other phones are app centric, but thats the whole point, those apps allow you to actually DO stuff. i mean jeeze. i personally think that for every crackberry person i've ever met, i've met 10 people who have said how much they HATE using their blackberry (usually for work) because you seriously can't do anything on it. And dont get me started on their browser.
/ late nite rant]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
If Tmobile's network was better I'd either get an iPhone and jailbreak it or their upcoming HD2. I know many people here don't like WM but if you are willing to upgrade to the current 6.5.3 build and customize your phone it works great but your experience out of the box if you don't want to invest time is pretty sad. There isn't that much you can do with BB even if you have an all touch device and the screen tends to break easily. The standard BB's are continually getting the rollerball replaced - I wish they'd go dpad as I'm tired of having to fix those suckers.

Have you tried using any data apps other than e-mail on a BB - it is no wonder they'll keep your internet consumption down - it sucks and there aren' t nearly as many apps available. Don't get me started about tethering with a BB...
]]>Feb 17th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
Speaking of craptacular, you're full of shit yourself.

]]>Feb 17th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Whoa dude, calm your roll with the american talk buddy...besides, everyone else in the world wishes they can be as big and fat as us]]>Feb 17th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Wait until that leech-phone gets flash!
It will kill the Internet!
... maybe that's the reason Steve J doesn't want flash ...]]>Feb 17th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/excuse me, let me correct myself. he's a great CEO. the guy is just an idiot. to even assert that his product, the blackberry, is the way of the future to combat the never ending demand of data being thrown ont he backs of wireless carriers...its pure lunacy. It'd be like, Intel saying "we have a great way of combating the incessant demand for faster and faster computers, and the need for data thats crippling ATT, Time Warner and Comcast. You guessed it, we're bringing back the 386 and 486 computers of yesteryear."
Like honestly...for some people, who only use their phones as messaging device, fine. Use a blackberry, they're fast an efficient, w/e (my fingers are simply too fat to use any candybar style device). But to say that people with real smartphones (iphone, winmo, android) should in the future be more or less downgraded to a blackberry. thats VERY crazy. Some BB owners may get offended that i used the word ''downgraded'' But ask any moderate iphone, winmo or android user, and for sure any power user, and i'm sure they'd be glad to tell you how much of a downgrade it is. ]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/its rare to see...but you must be a blackberry fanboy. i mean honestly, other than MESSAGING (and seriously thats it) try to name off some things that BB phones do well, let alone are very capable of doing when compared to iphones, windows phone, android handsets. I mean shit, look at their browser...half of the sites that i normally visit i can really check out on the blackberry. ]]>Feb 26th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
That's like Toyota saying too many people die driving fast exciting cars and we should lower speed limits so everyone will drive a slower, crappier Corolla to be safe.]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
Never gets old.

]]>Feb 17th 2010 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/ bbm.

The end.]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
That RIM can't even admit to this and instead blames the other handsets for using too much data is ridiculous]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
I guess you are right but I'd say he's wrong. That's if the mobile data usage stats are to be believed. What is it 50-75%(?) or something ridiculous of all traffic is iPhone and yet there cannot be as many of them as RIM devices. Based on a wild guess of units vs traffic it would be more like 50 RIM's to 1 iPhone.

If anyone can be assed researching and doing the math for accurate count vs my speculation I'd love to read it. Regardless it ain't 3 or 5 ]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
Read a story to your grandkids and get out of the technology business, you clearly don't get it.]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Too funny! ]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
Also, because the iPhone's browser experience is far superior, I'm sure iPhone users end up spending a lot more time browsing the web than an average blackberry user.
]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/"Blackberry phones use less bandwidth than an iPhone primarily because ALL web traffic through their phones is funneled through a Blackberry proxy server that compresses the content and sends them to the phone. This means that the blackberry data center sees all your browsing traffic and is a single point of failure. No thanks!"

Well for one, it is not like RIM has one server. They have server farms all over the place to handle traffic. The amount of down time for RIM is much less than the dropped calls and shitty service iPhone users experience. As well, all of that data is encrypted, so I doubt you have any real privacy worries (remember the whole India thing?).

"Also, because the iPhone's browser experience is far superior, I'm sure iPhone users end up spending a lot more time browsing the web than an average blackberry user."

I'm sure they do currently, but they pull three times the amount of data. Now add a better browser, the one major problem with blackberries, and I can see where they are coming from. I can have a faster, better, and more secure browsing experience. While I do think that carriers should be building out capacity, there is something to be said when your solution is three times more efficient than the competitors.]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Reminds me of Motorola stating that they were capable of making faster, cooler and mobile PPCs but had no idea Apple was interested in that sort of stuff.

What a fail!]]>Feb 17th 2010 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
I just sent back an HD2 cos I just couldn't get things done as quickly and efficiently as I could on my 9700, for those tasks i just listed it was like having an arm tied behind my back. On the other hand, it really does make me yearn for a tablet to fill that gap between my phone and desktop because browsing, (along with maps), is one of the few tasks to genuinely benefit from touchscreen. But, no amount of technology is gonna make browsing with a trackpad on a 480 x 360 screen a comfortable or enjoyable experience, even if it is slightly quicker.]]>Feb 17th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
DOES NOT COMPUTE!]]>Feb 17th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
"I just sent back an HD2"

DOES NOT COMPUTE!

Honestly, compute is about all it does do.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/
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hello! the whole business model depends on selling bandwidth to the public not rationing it so iPhone is better for their business than RIM, its not an USP that folks don't use rim for internet usage, its a indicator of a bleak future if they don't sort things out.]]>Feb 17th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/rim-ceo-claims-we-are-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-capacity-cru/Feb 17th 2010 6:23AM