I am in the market for a new home PC and I have been looking at the usual suspects, Dell, HP, Sony, AlienWare, etc. Being the BlackBerry addict that I am, I, of course, related buying a new PC to buying a new smartphone. That was when I realized that the BlackBerry is the Macintosh of smartphones.
There was a time when I was a diehard Mac user. It would have been a cold day in you know where before you could have pried my PowerBook 520c from my hands to replace it with a PC. 15 years later, I cannot imagine only owning a Mac, and to be honest, the only reason that I would ever buy one, is because, I think they are cute and it would be more for decoration than anything else. (Before all the RIMarkable readers that use a Mac flame the heck out of me, let me just say that I think that Mac, hands down, is a better computer than a PC, it is just not practical for me personally because I could get away without having a Mac but couldn’t get away without having a PC)
So, you are probably asking what this has to do with the BlackBerry. Well, the reason that I am such a diehard BlackBerry user is because, like my PowerBook from 15 years ago, it does for me what no other device can as effectively and reliably as it does. This, however, like with the Macintosh, won’t always be the case for the BlackBerry. In fact, I think that this won’t be the case probably sooner than later.
I agree. Right now the blackberry enjoys an enviable niche in the marketspace. As you note, it is somewhat analogous to the Apple Mac position, or even as I contend, the position that Palm enjoyed years ago.
The BB is known as the most user friendly, stable, secure environment. The main competition is regarded as more buggy, more difficult to work with.
However, as you also note, the market does not remain static. Things change, and of course BB needs to keep up and ahead of the competition.
One thing that Apple does so well is constantly evolve. We’ll see if BB can match that over time.
As an aside, I too think the Mac is the best computer on the market. But I too need to use a PC for practical reasons, mainly relating to availability of certain types of software. However, with the new Macs using Intel chips, and the Boot Camp and Parallels software, one can now run Windows on a Mac, and it even runs faster than on a Windows machine!! So my next computer will definitely be a Mac…I’m switching back!
How do I get the settings for setting up my Blackberry service on a non-blackberry phone? I have a few smartphones that offer the PUSH ability. My latest phone is the SE W900. I just need all the server settings and such, then I can just carry this phone instead of my BB and this phone. I dont like the phone quality on the BB.
Thanks