I’m ashamed of it
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 2:40AM If RIM makes new BlackBerry devices that look like current ones, they could be in trouble.
From The New York Times- The cultural divide between BlackBerry loyalists and everyone else has only grown more extreme over the last year as companies that previously issued employees BlackBerrys — and only BlackBerrys — have started surrendering to employee demands for iPhones and Android-powered smartphones.
Goldman Sachs recently gave its employees the option to use an iPhone. Covington & Burling, a major law firm, did the same at the urging of associates. Even the White House, which used the BlackBerry for security reasons, recently started supporting the iPhone. (Some staff members suspect that decision was influenced by President Obama, who now prefers his iPad for national security briefings. A spokesman for the White House declined to comment.)
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RIM? They exist, still?
at previous job we issued some staff with iphones, some surrendered blackberries to have one.
the iphones were used to demonstrate the company's app.
because they were business tools they were locked down, put on the same apple and icloud account, and the "owners" did not have the apple iStore password so couldn't install anything not permitted by company policy.
Once they realised their iphones were not going to be toys but simply for calls, messages, emails and the limited set of apps, the staff lost interest.
We also had a set of 3G enabled iPads too, also locked down, and these were usually "loaned" out for a few days and came back fairly promptly.
Quite a few went back to Blackberries because they found they were more efficient at emails, had better signal strength and worked better over slow 2G networks when 3G was not working.