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RIM suffers a delay to its operating system update
PERPETUALLY MOVING GADGET OUTFIT Research in Motion (RIM) has revealed a delay to its next operating system update before its biggest launch.
The announcement came at the company's annual shareholders meeting where Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM talked of the delay of its latest operating system offering. The meeting precedes what will apparently be its biggest launch.
According to Yahoo, Mike Lazaridis, the other co-CEO of RIM said, "It may have delayed us, but we are going to come out ahead," speaking about the decision to hold back the launch of its Bold handset.
Lazardis said the delay was due to the company's effort to make sure its smartphones meet market expectations. He claims that the upcoming Bold smartphone has technology that will make it "jump a generation".
Balsillie said that seven new Blackberry smartphones will run the new operating system in the coming months but didn't go into any specific details. This will supposedly keep the firm on track to meet financial targets.
RIM recently acknowledged a difficult first quarter that saw a drop in revenue compared to last year and disappointing sales of Blackberry smartphones of 13.2 million. To add to the blow RIM's share price dropped a massive 50 per cent.
We also reported recently that the Canadian company could be bought by Microsoft or Dell. Its tablet, the Playbook hasn't been as popular as it had hoped when RIM launched it back in April, with some units having to be recalled due a fault in the operating system. µ
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RIM should transition over to the software side of things primarily and just focus on making a killer good BlackBerry Messenger app. Dump BlackBerry OS and that QNX nonsense and go to Android, or just exit the hardware market altogether.
There just isn't enough room in the market for all these different platforms. There is no point to using anything other than Android or iOS. You use Android if you want an open ecosystem, and you use iOS if you prefer a walled garden. That's the problem that Microsoft faces too - Windows Phone 7 is plenty innovative and decent to use, but there's just no real point to it. Apple already has the corner on the Geek Chic market, and the mass users + anyone who cares about software openness is going to use Android regardless since it's cheap and open.
RIM actually has something worthwhile on their hands with Messenger, unlike the ill-fated Palm and Nokia. RIM should make something of it while they still have the chance.