Comments on: BlackBerry Storm Doing Better Than We Thought

By: The Rock

The Rock — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:31:44 +0000

As if the last quarter sales numbers of more than two million Apple iPhone’s aren’t enough trouble for RIM and it’s only half million BB….

Dell’s rumored smartphone: Look out RIM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10153144-1.html

IMO anything from Dull is a JOKE, and shouldn’t be the least bit troubling for Apple and RIM.

By: Meegan Foster

Meegan Foster — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:47:55 +0000

@The Rock,

I’ve been reading a lot of your comments and it seems like really hate Verizon and the BlackBerry Storm.

Do you have a Verizon BlackBerry Storm? What are you basing your opinions on?

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:17:08 +0000

^ the numbers are not only from the Wall Steet Journal, but from AT&T themself. Read on…

And I own an iPhone too. A legitimate shot.

And all of this is true because “Stone Cold said so!”

By: The Rock

The Rock — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:03:16 +0000

hmmmmm,

Guess The Wall Street Journal and many others don’t seem to be able to get the numbers right now? That’s the new spin? That and a sadly typical a bias, non-factual, uneducated shot at a service provider which one doesn’t have.

LAME.

By: joell

joell — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:37:16 +0000

@ The Rock
“……perceived status symbol of certain devices instead of gaining a true understanding of the devices and the devices abilities.”
I know some BB owners who, beyond the basics, are unaware of many of the devices abilities; they’re just not going to invest the required time.

Status symbol & “cool” are factors for many phone buyers, including some BB business users. Regarding consumer users, last week I overheard a waitress excitingly tell a coworker of her plan to buy the Storm.

“Does RIM even want to or need to be making a iPhone like device?”

Yes. IMO, the phones of the future will more resemble the iPhone than non Storm BB’s

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:07:46 +0000

^ correct numbers are:

500,000 Storms sold in the first month, not quarter. Also, 1.9 million iPhone activations last quarter.

If AT&T had 2.1 million new customers, and 1.9 are iPhone’s, just goes to show how crappy their network is if it wasn’t for the iPhone. Just a thought…

By: The Rock

The Rock — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:01:32 +0000

It’s not that bad. Less than a half “million people with a slow bb storm and don’t get helped at all” (When you factor in reported total sales and all those who returned the Storm)

By: The Rock

The Rock — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:57:52 +0000

Labels “the standard” are dangerous and at the same time have no factual basis either. Do sales numbers really matter? If they do:

“only half million Blackberry Storm devices were sold in the U.S. since November, according to the Wall Street Journal . During the same holiday period, Apple sold more than two million iPhones, totaling over a quarter of the North American smartphone market.”

The RIM Storm might / maybe be turn out to be a decent smartphone when Bastille gets all the bugs worked out. But when RIM and verizon positioned it / called it their answer to the iPhone they called for the comparisons and they got those comparisons, only it wasn’t the numbers they were hoping for. No need for sour grapes, no need to blame the press, they are only reporting the facts. It’s been said and proven many times you don’t out Apple, Apple.

By: h

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:42:28 +0000

There we go again sales sales sales….and no customer support the only thing that’s happening is that there are one million people with a slow bb storm and don’t get helped at all