Oh, this is a serious bummer. RIM just released its quarterly earnings report, which really stunk by themselves: it made profits of just 51¢ per share.
But what makes that call even worse than just being a way for the company to break the news about its dwindling money to its investors is the fact that BlackBerry 10 phones will not be launching until late 2012.
At this point, I'm about to give up my dreams of actually owning a BlackBerry 10/QNX device from RIM because it's looking like they'll never make it to the market. RIM keeps delaying something that's actually really good and could shoot it towards the top again, and I have no idea how that makes sense. I guess it's because BlackBerry 10 looks so different than its previous operating systems and since RIM's biggest customers are enterprise people with training for older operating systems, RIM just doesn't want to let them go.
Still, that's an idiotic way to look at a way to make more money. Then again, it's RIM we're talking about.
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The delay is a simple hardware reason. They are waiting for the latest quad core lte chips to be manufactored. They don’t control that or the fact that the cell providers don’t want any more phones that don’t have lte. Rim was in a bad situation in any case. Their first phones were going to be touchscreen only and BB is known for its hard keyboards. Rim should be able to deliver on both hard keyboard and touchscreen phones later in the year. This will make for a better launch of the BB 10 phones. Although it is disappointing, it’s not like Rim isn’t selling quality phone with their BB 7 phones right now. It’s sad how a company who is still making money and increasing its customer base is considered failing.
*Dual core chips.
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hahahahahah keep drinking the koolaid
Why would they wait for dual-core chips when they’re already out? RIM is making a massive mistake by not finishing BlackBerry 10 and the hardware that will run it as fast as it can. By the time late 2012 rolls around, there will be quad-core chips and Mike and Jim will be going on about how BB10 can only run on quad-core chips. I have a feeling they don’t even want the new OS to reach the market.
Also, success isn’t necessarily based solely on making money and gaining customer for one measly quarter. It’s also based on revenue and customer growth year-over-year.
Since RIM is essentially “losing” customers and money when compared to this quarter last year, the company is considered to be failing.
I also disagree with you that BB 7 is a quality operating system. When I tested the BlackBerry Style, I could barely do anything on it. Lockups were common; so was taking out the battery.
The Style is a BB6 device. If Rim didn’t want the OS to hit the market they wouldn’t have put it on the Playbook. As for the chipset, everyone knows how badly the new Android devices are with the current chipset. The problem being that it isn’t an integrated chip. This makes for larger phones with massive batteries. All the new phones coming out next year will benefit from the new chipset.