Comments on: Why are some BlackBerry faithful so resistant to innovation? http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kay http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-2943 kay Tue, 23 May 2006 23:46:46 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/242#comment-2943 how do i down load voice ringers to my 7100i how do i down load voice ringers to my 7100i

]]> By: Robb Dunewood http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-1291 Robb Dunewood Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:16:26 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/242#comment-1291 Looks like RIM is finally coming around on <a href="http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/560" rel="nofollow">adding a camera phone and MP3 to the BlackBerry</a>. Let's hope that think about removable memory as well. Looks like RIM is finally coming around on adding a camera phone and MP3 to the BlackBerry. Let’s hope that think about removable memory as well.

]]> By: Robb Dunewood http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-80 Robb Dunewood Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/242#comment-80 Corey, I don't know of too many users out there that just go out and buy a BlackBerry and set it up on their BES without some direction for their Corporate IT departments. All an IT staff has to do to stay off unsupported devices is create a policy stating which devices are or are not supported. Most IT departments wouldn't allow a user to hop over to Best Buy or Comp USA, buy whatever laptop they want, then expect it to be connected to the production domain and supported like a company laptop. Why should it be in differnt for BlackBerry Devices. You are right, RIM has, as I mentioned as well, built a strong reputation of being very secure. They definately don't want to come out with hardware configurations that are not secure, however, there are varying degrees of security. What may be sercure to company A may not be secure at all to company B. I know of several organizations that don't allow any BlackBerries with Bluetooth regardless of how secure the BlackBerry version of Bluetooth is. All I am suggesting is that RIM investigate alternative hardware configurations. If a company sees an external memory slot as a security threat, don't allow that type of BlackBerry on your network. Corey,

I don’t know of too many users out there that just go out and buy a BlackBerry and set it up on their BES without some direction for their Corporate IT departments. All an IT staff has to do to stay off unsupported devices is create a policy stating which devices are or are not supported. Most IT departments wouldn’t allow a user to hop over to Best Buy or Comp USA, buy whatever laptop they want, then expect it to be connected to the production domain and supported like a company laptop. Why should it be in differnt for BlackBerry Devices.

You are right, RIM has, as I mentioned as well, built a strong reputation of being very secure. They definately don’t want to come out with hardware configurations that are not secure, however, there are varying degrees of security. What may be sercure to company A may not be secure at all to company B. I know of several organizations that don’t allow any BlackBerries with Bluetooth regardless of how secure the BlackBerry version of Bluetooth is.

All I am suggesting is that RIM investigate alternative hardware configurations. If a company sees an external memory slot as a security threat, don’t allow that type of BlackBerry on your network.

]]> By: Corey http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-79 Corey Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:59:00 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/242#comment-79 Why don't you get a Treo if all the extra toys are important to you? RIM has built a reputation, and RIM takes care of it's customers. If you were in RIM's shoes and you had 70% of your customer base telling you to make it secure and you knew that bluetooth is very insecure, would you make apps for BT data transfer? No you wouldn't. The same goes for IR. You also wouldn't have a card slot where data can be saved from the handheld, then popped into any laptop and copied off. It's not smart to that stuff when your business is built on security and stability. It's also not smart to have these options on a 'consumer' line of devices because a lot of people are told to 'get a blackberry' and then the think that the $199 consumer model is the way to go, when all of a sudden they aren't allowed to have it on the corporate BES. Bad move to lean away from the total security of what RIM has built thusfar. Why don’t you get a Treo if all the extra toys are important to you? RIM has built a reputation, and RIM takes care of it’s customers. If you were in RIM’s shoes and you had 70% of your customer base telling you to make it secure and you knew that bluetooth is very insecure, would you make apps for BT data transfer? No you wouldn’t. The same goes for IR. You also wouldn’t have a card slot where data can be saved from the handheld, then popped into any laptop and copied off. It’s not smart to that stuff when your business is built on security and stability. It’s also not smart to have these options on a ‘consumer’ line of devices because a lot of people are told to ‘get a blackberry’ and then the think that the $199 consumer model is the way to go, when all of a sudden they aren’t allowed to have it on the corporate BES. Bad move to lean away from the total security of what RIM has built thusfar.

]]> By: Tony http://www.rimarkable.com/why-are-some-blackberry-faithful-so-resistant-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-78 Tony Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:50:12 +0000 http://www.rimarkable.com/archives/242#comment-78 I think that the blackberry's should add more features to them. I assist the users here at my company set them up and I belive if they had more features I would like to have one myself. I think that the blackberry’s should add more features to them. I assist the users here at my company set them up and I belive if they had more features I would like to have one myself.

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