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CrackBerry Podcast 062: 2010 BlackBerry Year in Review Special!!

by Kevin Michaluk on 31 Dec 2010 03:09 PM
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That's it. 2010 is history. Following up on last year's 2009 year-end special, we jumped on the podcast lines this morning to take a look back and say farewell to the 2010 BlackBerry year. It was definitely an interesting 365 days for RIM. The company has seen its greatest success ever in terms of units shipped/sales/profit, yet at the same time has had to deal with more competition and changing consumer tastes.

We go through it all in this one, including our thoughts on what we may see in 2011, so sit back, grab some bubbly, and listen to Adam, Bla1ze, Joseph and myself ring in the New Year CrackBerry style! Enjoy the show, and Happy New Year! 

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Posted by onemanarmy Friday, Dec 31, 2010 509 days ago

It's not an offical crackberry podcast without Craig!

 
 
Posted by Kevin Michaluk Friday, Dec 31, 2010 509 days ago

true... but he's away on vacation :(

 
 
Posted by BerryGuy25 Friday, Dec 31, 2010 509 days ago

Around the 74 minute mark, Kevin starts to talk about RIM should take on what Apple does which is make one phone per year but for each family of device. RIM definitely needs to do this but the thing that ultimately hurts them are the EXCLUSIVES.

If RIM stopped doing the exclusives, they would be so much more successful in North America. I'm sure that there are tons of people that wanted to buy a Torch but were not willing to switch to AT&T.

RIM has so much potential but they seem to be so out of touch at this point that they may not really get rolling until 2012 or 2013 which is WAY too long.... seriously.

 
 
Posted by TABpilot32 Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 508 days ago

I'm glad Kevin was back, the podcast without him (other than his brief appearance) just wasn't the same.... On another note I totally vote for Joseph being a podcast regular from now on, he has been a great addition over the past few!

 
 
Posted by CASH Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 508 days ago

I take it no one noticed Kevin admitting he has/had an iPhone. ???

 
 
Posted by xDAKx Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 508 days ago

If you look to some of the older CrackBerry videos on YouTube, and also some older CrackBerry podcasts, Kevin has had (various) iPhone's for quite a while, and while I personally consider myself a die-hard CrackBerry addict, I also have 2 iPhones, both of which I use to kill off idle time with when I'm horribly bored and don't have any BBMs in need of a response. c:

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 508 days ago

It's impossible to speak about other platforms (which we often do) without owning at least one of them. The difference is tools and toys, lol.

 
 
Posted by CASH Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 507 days ago

Good point.

 
 
Posted by CASH Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 507 days ago

I never listened to the older podcasts. I just started listening, albeit occasionally, approximately around July.

Likewise. I love RIM/BlackBerry as well, and I too bought an iPhone recently. However, I ended up selling it for the very reasons I bought it; to kill time doing things I didn't have to. Whether it was web browsing, watching videos, listening to music, holding it in my hand whenever I was out so people could see I had an iPhone etc etc. It took me about a month to realize my life was much better with BlackBerry, even with the limitations of the OS and hardware, and I was more productive.

It speaks volumes that even those of us which love RIM/BlackBerry and REALLY want them to succeed knows that we could have it much better in a lot of areas somewhere else. But that, of course, is not very logical. Logical, nonetheless, but not very. If that was the case we would sell/trade many things in our life just to have the best out there that we could. 'Mom, I could have a better mom, so I'm going to trade you in for a new Mom 6000.'

 
 
Posted by soogriffin Monday, Jan 24, 2011 485 days ago

I did!

 
 
Posted by Crackberry Brandon Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 508 days ago

After 35:10 you guys said that the torch was the device of the year. I made a poll in September and Bold is WAY ahead. Even though torch is a new device its almost ahead of the curve. So I agree with you but at the same time disagree. See for yourself. =D

http://forums.crackberry.com/f2/what-blackberry-do-you-have-538560/

 
 
Posted by Adam Zeis Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 507 days ago

Have to keep in mind that not everyone that voted in the blogs may have made their way into the forums, and also in your poll you didn't separate the Bold 9650 and Bold 9780 so the numbers could be a bit skewed on that aspect :)

 
 
Posted by Crackberry Brandon Monday, Jan 03, 2011 507 days ago

Yes, I agree. True. But its drawing a lot of attention. 12,000+ views in 3 months :)

 
 
Posted by soogriffin Monday, Jan 24, 2011 485 days ago

Kevin said he has a BB and an iphone for wasting time. Whew. For a second there I was thinking I was a freak for carrying around both. :)

 
 
Posted by jabber_jaws Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 484 days ago

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Users finally gets the Official OS6 from Verizon, please make sure to podcast this announcement on your next podcast in case people are uninformed, Thanks and keep up the awesome great work guys!