Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

On the news BlackBerry is in a pinch. Number of BlackBerry Torch sold was only 150,000 devices in its first week during its wide release back then (indication of low market hype for the new product). Then, Morgan Stanley, UBS and some other corporation are testing iPhone and thinking to change system from BlackBerry to iPhone (corporation is BlackBerry's main market segment, if they loose it, then I think that's it). Their problem in middle east leads to distrust in BlackBerry security and their customers change their preferences (Product image shifted). This is not a good time for BlackBerry. It was also said that RIM (BlackBerry maker) did mistakes that Palm did before it went bankrupt.

On the other hand, the release of iAd and Google Ad some months back make me think that iPhone and Android phone may be a complicated and ad heavy phone which sometime is annoying, furthermore I think both device has been used frequently by software developers to collect data (because many apps require internet connection to developers server thus it may be used to collect personal data). It can happen to any phone, but based on the growth, both two may be the fastest to reach that level (this may not be true since I don't use any of it). The industry has been developed quite significant and I am excited to hear some news about the upcoming Symbian^3 and especially Windows Phone 7.

Wish me luck for my mid-session exam today :p