Even Windows Mobile Device Maker Hewlett Packard’s CEO uses a BlackBerry

by Robb Dunewood on October 20, 2006 · 1 comment

I am sure you’ve heard the saying, “If you can’t beat ‘em… Join ‘em”. This appears to be the edict that the Windows Mobile running Ipaq manufacturer (a.k.a HP) CEO, Mark Hurd is living by.

Actually, I think that it was more like, “If you can’t beat ‘em, continue making all the Ipaqs that we can for all those poor souls who haven’t figured out just how much better the BlackBerry is than Windows Mobile, and, since I know the real deal, I’ll join ‘em and pray that our investors don’t find out that I am using our biggest competitor’s gear because compared to the BlackBerry, our stuff sucks.”

I’ve got $10 bucks that says every HP board member owns a BlackBerry.

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1 Thought October 21, 2006 at 12:45 am

Any serious business person uses a BlackBerry…even those that work for companies selling products that compete with the BB.

The BB is unrivaled for what it does, and that is why it dominates the enterprise market. Nothing else comes close.

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