It has been a long time since I wrote about RIM's BlackBerry lines and the App World that went live in March 2009. Today is the right time to compare the iPhone and BlackBerry and App Store and App World.
App Store was launched in July 2008 and the App World of Research in Motion was launched in March, 2009, a difference of nearly a year. The App Store was launched with a few hundred applications on board, same in case of App World. However, there is a marked difference in the growth pace of the two application stores.
It's been five Read More...
How many of you would buy an iPhone if Apple or AT&T were to announce "Buy one get one FREE" offer. Yes, I see millions of raised hands out there. This is what exactly Verizon did with the BlackBerry phones when the handsets were not selling good. I say it's a good business strategy to force people spend when there is credit crunch. Apple might never do this though.
The aggressive buy one get one free offer on BlackBerries has turn out good for both RIM and Verizon. BlackBerry Curve has become the best selling smartphone in the US leaving the Read More...
Apple has announced that its 2.2 iPhone firmware has a new feature for its fully virtual QWERTY keyboard: the keyboard will behave more like a real, physical keyboard than a software application interface.
The new firmware version--expected to be released by December-- adds a little intelligence to the iPhone keyboard, allowing it to keep track of usage: how many times a key has been used, and even how hard specific keys are pressed.
Donald Lindsay, Interface Designer at Apple, explained: the technology was always in place--we can track keyboard usage, and the multi-touch screen can also be told to measure the pressure Read More...
Launch of the first generation iPhone:
June 2007 was the Apocalypse month for RIM, the maker of BlackBerry and other smartphone manufacturers. The iPhone was born, so to say anointed to bring change to the smartphone market. One year down the line, we saw the rebirth of the device, in the form of the iPhone 3G. We still remember how we walked into Apple Stores, carrying an iPod, a cell phone and a PDA and came out with a single device that perform all the functions of the devices once we carry around with great pride. Apple did something great.
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