RIM (RIMM) is in talks with mobile handset and PC makers about licensing the company's BlackBerry 10 operating system, new CEO Thorsten Heins tells Bloomberg. As to fears that he will be unduly influenced by Mike Lazaridis, Heins declares, "make no mistake, I run the company." [View news story]
There's a sucker born every minute. What do you say HP? Two wrongs make a right. How about another couple of billion dollars for BB 10?
Research In Motion: Buy The (BlackBerry 10) Rumor [View article]
Here is real world litmus test for you all: My company just switched everyone over to iPhone 4S from BBs. Blackberry is expensive to operate (licensing costs etc for their server and internal IT costs for on going support and maintenance) and most employees carry an iPhone (or Android) anyway and use the BB just for work and hate their BB experience compared to their personal phones. Plus you can get the same security/remote management capabilities on the Android/iphone devices now. Messaging/push email, remote management etc used to be BBs bread and butter and it is now something we all take for granted.
It's all now about the ecosystem (Apps/Music/Books etc) and the Android / iOS momentum is huge. When BB10 which is1.5+ years in the making arrives world would have moved on to the 5th gen iPhone, 3rd gen iPad and numerous Android based devices and their improved feature sets and exponentially greater ecosystems.
BB 10 is DOA.
I am going to going out on the limb here even say that it's highly probably that the RIMM CEO resignations had everything to do with APPL's massive quarter. They saw the numbers (after all those 37m iPhones had to have eaten away in to others numbers) and had to get out before they got publicly flocked by the investors for their dismal performance next earnings.
What in your opinion is a closed architecture? Android is effectively a closed architecture (read the Google docs/email made public in Oracle v. Google Java case)
I also read your July 2008 article on LEH - "Lehman is not going down even after the rampant short selling". I would stick to your day job if I were you instead of wasting time on seeking alpha. Thanks.
While Steve Jobs has only now resigned as CEO, Joe Wilcox thinks the quality of Apple's (AAPL) products was already on a decline that began around the time of Jobs' Jan. '09 medical leave, as the simplicity that defined Apple's offerings for much of Jobs' reign gave way to growing complexity in platforms such as iTunes, iOS, and Mac OS X. [View news story]
He is comparing platform/framework feature sets with usability. Apples to Oranges. Smart.
With a U.S. student dropping out of high school every 26 seconds, the unemployment rate seems sure to keep rising. Dropouts are ineligible for 90% of the total jobs in the economy, and those who find work earn 40 cents of every dollar a college grad earns. And in this recession, the gap between educational haves and have-nots is growing. [View news story]
Every 26 seconds?! so about 100k unskilled labor entering the market every month. Our jobs number last month was a measly 18k! I bet all that was in the skilled labor sector too. To support 100k unskilled in the work force we need another housing bubble to put all these people to work in construction!
RIM (RIMM) is in talks with mobile handset and PC makers about licensing the company's BlackBerry 10 operating system, new CEO Thorsten Heins tells Bloomberg. As to fears that he will be unduly influenced by Mike Lazaridis, Heins declares, "make no mistake, I run the company." [View news story]
Research In Motion: Buy The (BlackBerry 10) Rumor [View article]
Research In Motion: Buy The (BlackBerry 10) Rumor [View article]
It's all now about the ecosystem (Apps/Music/Books etc) and the Android / iOS momentum is huge. When BB10 which is1.5+ years in the making arrives world would have moved on to the 5th gen iPhone, 3rd gen iPad and numerous Android based devices and their improved feature sets and exponentially greater ecosystems.
BB 10 is DOA.
I am going to going out on the limb here even say that it's highly probably that the RIMM CEO resignations had everything to do with APPL's massive quarter. They saw the numbers (after all those 37m iPhones had to have eaten away in to others numbers) and had to get out before they got publicly flocked by the investors for their dismal performance next earnings.
Good luck RIMM. You were once a favorite ....
What To Do With Apple [View article]
I also read your July 2008 article on LEH - "Lehman is not going down even after the rampant short selling". I would stick to your day job if I were you instead of wasting time on seeking alpha. Thanks.
While Steve Jobs has only now resigned as CEO, Joe Wilcox thinks the quality of Apple's (AAPL) products was already on a decline that began around the time of Jobs' Jan. '09 medical leave, as the simplicity that defined Apple's offerings for much of Jobs' reign gave way to growing complexity in platforms such as iTunes, iOS, and Mac OS X. [View news story]
With a U.S. student dropping out of high school every 26 seconds, the unemployment rate seems sure to keep rising. Dropouts are ineligible for 90% of the total jobs in the economy, and those who find work earn 40 cents of every dollar a college grad earns. And in this recession, the gap between educational haves and have-nots is growing. [View news story]