Comments on: Will Lack Of Mac Support Push Apple Using BlackBerry Owners To The iPhone?

By: NV

NV — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:31:59 +0000

I am a dedicated MAC user and have been since I had my very first computer circa 1994. I’m not a MAC enthusiast who has to keep buying them because (as someone stated above) Steve Jobbs tells me too. MACS are practical for my line of work (graphic arts) and I’m very satisfied by how they work overall.

However, I am looking into buying my first blackberry when Verizon finally releases the curve and whether Apple provides any type of support means nothing to me. I have no desire to buy an iPhone either. I plan on using my blackberry for email/web, BB mesenger and phone calls of course and so lack of MAC support isn’t a big deal for me.

I just want to try and dispell this idea abut who MAC users are. We’re not all snobbish, trendy, wannabe artists who have to buy everything made by Apple. I just happen to love working on MAC computers.

By: Shoshumi

Shoshumi — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:38:11 +0000

Screw RIM, PocketMac is a horrible peice of software and does not do what is advertised. Many bugs, many problems and I know some who have never got the software to work at all.

The combination of Pocketmac + RIM support = equals weeks of frustration and even tears. Too bad my company just ordered handful of useless blackberries. The people with Palms are happily working away.

An iPhone without true support of third-party apps turns out to be just as useless.

I’ll stick to my Palm Treo for now thanks.

By: BlueRiman

BlueRiman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:51:44 +0000

Though we chose to go with BB at our our Title Company last year we will be switching over to the iPhone or the Palm platform next year depending if someon buys them out. Fortunetly we have a great sales associate from Cingular that constantly keeps us up to date with our BB’s. He just comes over to our office with his laptop and updates all of our BB or whatever we need to. So, fortunetly we have great service with Cingular and we don’t have to worry about little updates like that… but we won’t support a company that is so closed like that. Heck, Apple has made itunes and the ipod compatible and I’m sure from the start the iPhone will sync just fine with our PC but we don’t want to deal with a second rate company like RIM any longer.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:59:38 +0000

You got that right. Love my Blackberry, love my Mac. But I am not getting Windows for the benefit of keeping RIM. Bye bye Blackberry. You will be missed.

By: Driften

Driften — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:03:08 +0000

Yes I think many mac users will switch. Me I will upgrade my 8700g to a 88xx
when T-Mobile has them in a couple of months. Pocketmac is working fine for me right now but I had to book up a windows box for the DST patch.
I really would like RIM to port the desktop software to OSX. I really don’t care for windows. I use OSX or Linux 99% of time for my computing needs. If RIM really
wants to get into the consumer market they need to support the 5% market of Mac users.

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:57:46 +0000

Robb, many companies leverage in place technology to get that last 1-2% market share. The fact is porting to OSX for the Blackberry would be a very small fraction of the cost of development of the original package. So the profit margin may not be as high but I bet it would still be respectable.

Since porting software leverages code already developed, while it is a big undertaking, it is not even close to starting from ground zero. Look at Adobe for example. Photoshop and Illustrator come out on the Mac first and a then ported to PC.

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:48:15 +0000

Chris, the commercial about connecting to peripherals is exactly that. Without exception to date I have plugged into hundreds of printers, scanners, and cameras and I have yet to find one that doesn’t work. The fact is a phone is not a computer peripheral. It is a phone.

iSync is open to any device developer through ADC to get source to develop a device specific driver. There is no standard for smartphone data exchange so every manufacturer needs to roll their own. The “smart” phone people really should develop an open standard for exchanging data with a computer. I bet Apple would support that out of the box.

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:41:59 +0000

Many Mac Addicts don’t want to admit this, but, no matter how you look at it, the Mac is a very small niche in the world of personal computers that is more of a “nice to have” than a necessity with the exception, maybe, in the area of graphic design.

Depending on what report your read, Apple holds anywhere from about 5% to 8% marketshare and of that 5% to 8%, over half readily has access to a PC.

When you get right down to it, the number of BlackBerry users that only have Mac access is incredibly small comparitively speaking.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:34:03 +0000

Daniel you’re absolutely right Mac owners are used to paying a premium and are an incredibly loyal group. I’ve never owned anything but a Mac and I and don’t see that changing. But part of that world class service that I pay for is to able to instantly connect with whatever device I choose. Remember their ad with the new digital camera from japan that automatically connects but windows doesn’t understand, where’s that support now? As for ROI you maybe right it’s financially more beneficial for RIM to create the software, but still it’s something I expect from a world class operating system. I guess we’ll just have to wait for steve to get a bb before we see any changes.