http://tewha.net/2008/08/the-sad-case-of-palm/ Writings and links on iPhone and iPad programming Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tewha.net/2008/08/the-sad-case-of-palm/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Steven Fisher Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:08:20 +0000 http://tewha.net/?p=589#comment-233 <p>I think you're probably right about RIM. To me, though, RIM has always been next to irrelevant. It's been marketed as a one trick pony, and that one trick it does well enough that it doesn't need any help. I can't imagine every developing for Blackberry, because I can't imagine anyone caring if I did.</p> I think you’re probably right about RIM. To me, though, RIM has always been next to irrelevant. It’s been marketed as a one trick pony, and that one trick it does well enough that it doesn’t need any help. I can’t imagine every developing for Blackberry, because I can’t imagine anyone caring if I did.

]]> http://tewha.net/2008/08/the-sad-case-of-palm/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Paul Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:02 +0000 http://tewha.net/?p=589#comment-232 <p>RIM is about to suffer the same fate. They're still putting out cool hardware, but the creaky OS and horribly broken developer ecosystem is going to sink them. The iPhone and iPhone SDK just ensured it will happen sooner than later.</p> RIM is about to suffer the same fate. They’re still putting out cool hardware, but the creaky OS and horribly broken developer ecosystem is going to sink them. The iPhone and iPhone SDK just ensured it will happen sooner than later.

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