Why the USA *needs* a BlackBerry comeback

i bought RIM stock, that should help. lol 20 stocks outta 4 million

lmao I love this

I think Kevin's onto something. Hold on. I'll be right back to finishing this comment once I top my high score in BrickBreaker.

One can also make the argument that Blackberry may be the solution to the "dwindling spectrum availability". Data compression of RIM's servers reduce the bandwith needed per smartphone. Ever since the iphone and android came on the scene, those devices have been on a spectrum buffet.

Lol, correlation equals causation right? Isn't that always the first thing we're taught in statistics courses?

Playbook also has a wide variety of games just like the IPhone so should we expect the same outcome?
RIM NEEDS TO DELIVER. MAYBE HIRE A FEW APPLE ENGINEERS BECAUSE CURRENT EMPLOYEES BECAUSE CURRENT ONES ARE NOT INNOVATING.

OR RIM SHOULD JUST LICENSE ANDROID.

propz lol

That was kinda presidential lol

I guess i should be deleting angry birds from my playbook then.. haha

A scary correleation indeed! Just like how both frozen yogurt sales and violent crime rates are higher in summer months..... therefore frozen yogurt is a leading trigger of violence!!!!! :D

Pretty surprised that this post did not have people up in arms about this conclusion.

Great attempt at humor. If BlackBerry is to make a comeback, it will be because it makes a superior product. Let's hope RIM can pull this off.

Such vision lulz.... Great stuff!

That's Awesome...lol

Yeah but the only thing anyone can find to do on their PB / BB10 is games...

Apple is being sued by the Justice Department for price fixing and this shortly after is restricted e-book apps from access to their stores. Only iBooks (an Apple product) can access the storefront.

Apple is price fixing with carriers. The Justice Department should check this out. If not them then the Consumer Protection Agency.

Apple stopped or delayed popular competitors in Australia and Europe.

Maybe its a joke but Apple sucks. Apple makes all their iPhones in China. Conversely, RIM makes them in various places to include the Americas. Canada, Mexico, etc.

Seriously, I like the "Wake Up" campaign. How much do we need to get screwed in the U.S. before we take a stand against Apple.

Hold on, to replicate the success of the 90s, does that mean we have to bring Palm back?

LOL it's written on the wall! Thanks for opening our eyes! Long live the RIMpire!

Love it Kev

I've been saying this for about a year, no one believed me.

Uh oh Rene Ritchie is mad now...

Imagine the number of iPhone sales in a decent economy.

Epic =)

Lol.. Great article.. Gotta love it!!

Great point of view... yeah kevin...

With Mickie mouse in the white house business has come to a standstill so might as well play games. Get Mickie mouse out of my the white house and business will take off and people will need a device that can get the job done.

One could also blame AT&T "Over the life of a two-year contract, AT&T is paying Apple more per iPhone than it now costs to actually buy one, according to a financial analyst."

If Blackberry keep making great devices like the 9900 we might have something going on here, due to the fact that blackberry phone are a bit harder to use and a bit less consumer friendly.
Since blackberry/ rim target market is Business user mostly.
and most company use it because rim/blackberry is a great secure device.
if rim/blackberry newer bbx/bb10 device are not going to do something amazing to show the world we might see our president Obama using the Iphone.

RAWR! THIS...IS....BLACKBERRY!!!!

Stop the presses! Somebody call the Freakonomics guy in here... ;-D

Good Post, Kevin!

Welcome to NYC. I live in Brooklyn. Enjoy your stay!

What a joke, the phone has nothing to do with productivity, it is the person using the phone that chooses to either do productive activities or time wasting ones. There are PLENTY of executives, business men, engineers etc who use iphones and are extremely productive. The problem is, people do not work hard enough anymore. It is up to the people to put the games away and get to work, there are hundreds of thousands of productivity apps for iphone that help track time, gtd, pdf creators, word processors, etc. We could blame the iphone for lack of productivity but thats like blaming cookies for obesity, stop eating the damn cookies!! Now i LOVE my 9900 and i would never give it up, especially for work, but there are some apps on my iphone that can't be touched by the scant choice in bb app world, and i would absolutely be less productive without them. So lets hope rim acts and comes through with bb10 for competition and not bc of some fabricated statistics about the downturn of the economy and how it relates to the iPhone. Sorry kevin, your writing is usually great but this one is a reach at best. Oh and before you call troll, i am typing this on my playbook using bridge keyboard and my 9900. The bottom line is we need RIM to compete and push the envelope on creative development, that is why bb10 looks so good, because rim knows to survive they need to innovate and recreate, not hope to sell the same old thing.

Here here !!! No more iclone ifad !!!

I knew it! Evil iPhone! On the other side, when I got my Bold 9930, I became a better father, more loving husband and my relationship with God became deeper and more meaningful!

Okay, okay! The truth is: I'm better at ignoring the kids, my wife and God, but my Bold is just SO awesome!!!!

Great post Kevin! Loved it (made me smile after a tough shift at work)

My personal view of BB. They are efficiant, and practical, and (except for the 9000 and 9900 Bolds) not really that flashy.

I started a new contract with a new carrier about a month ago. (2 lines, one for me and one for the wifey). I was pondering early on getting a 9900. But I was tired of same-old same old. I mean, I had an 8130, and played with a number of the curves that have come out between the 8330 and the newest one (sorry I can't remember since they changed the model numbering scheme). I just wasn't that impressed. I wanted flashy, fancy, fun. To me, that was Galaxy Nexus.

A month down the road and I'm realizing something. RIM is onto something. I really hope they can lock in, stop the slide, and explode forward. BB10 looks good. It really does. More fun and flashy then OS 5, or 6, (and even 7 although my time with that one was about 3 minutes). But still basic, essential practicality too.

And you want to know what I miss most of all? A physical keyboard. (Yes, even the suretype from the aforementioned 8130 Pearl)

If RIM can keep up this momentum, I'm sure they're gonna have on HECK of a stellar lineup ready when this contract is up.... 3years down the road!

What does this have to do with iPhones? Not a whole lot. except maybe that that other line I have for my wife? Yeah, she wanted an iPhone.

PUT OBAMA IN THAT GRAPH!! IT WILL ALL FIT TOGETHER!'

Obama has done better than the pretzel choker ever did.

Reminds me of that open letter linking global warming to the dropping numbers of pirates worldwide.

http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

The Nobel prize in economics to the author ! LMAO !

lol, if it weren't for iphone, the graph would already be in the negative zone. adding blackberry to it will only speed up the downhill process.

I. Understand if RIM 10 sales sky rocket the US economy will go up because we will be playing Angry Birds on BB10 3 weeks after everyone else on the planet. This is like showing up to a party with Greek Yogurt and thinking you accomplished something.

I. Understand if RIM 10 sales sky rocket the US economy will go up because we will be playing Angry Birds on BB10 3 weeks after everyone else on the planet. This is like showing up to a party with Greek Yogurt and thinking you accomplished something.

CNET Mistakenly admits PlayBook is one of the top 5 used tablets in web traffic. http://cnet.co/ILE844

What could the real correlation be?
Being serious and hazarding a guess, the US economy is in the doldrums and people are buying fewer large capital goods - houses, cars, boats. But they still want visible evidence of status. So the status symbol moves to smaller things: mobile phones in particular. It's exactly the way that in the Third World jewellery tends to be the status symbol; something visible and portable. The rise of Apple on this hypothesis is because their products have quasi-jewellery status.

If the US economy recovers and the housing market picks up, people will be paying mortgages at higher interest rates and suddenly they won't want to change a phone every year or have one that smashes after quite a small drop. So I'm speculating that a major drop in the Apple share price, especially if things like Facebook are similarly affected, will be a sign of economic recovery; people will be spending less on phones and tablets, and spending more time working and making money.

The problem why Iphone is so harmful to the world economy is because its made in China, if Apple move the jobs back to the US and accept a lower profit margin, the economy would have fared a lot better!
I hope RiM make most of its devises in America or least in EU, cos its not only about the profit margin, its about lifely hood and social responsibility no company can stand alone without a healthy economy!
I guess APPLE will eventually. Get into trouble if they not reallise it soon.

Looool, you are the best man! Thank god that you are not wrtting for the dark side...

Are you serious? Are you blaming apple for this, and then you use two game which are on the blackberry platform too!!! What's wrong with nerd nerdy kevin lately? Are you high on something

ROTFLMAO! Awesome! Throw Android into that analysis too! People it is sarcasm, stop being so fracking stupid.

In some mysterious way the beloved 'Berry could be a savior. Almost has to be, as we have a president in the US who creates jobs and creates wealth thru spending and taxing rofl. Of course, if app developers are successful enough, they'll get taxed to death. Regardless, It is the right time for the RIMpire to rise :)

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kevin could be right -- after all, the decrease in sales of nylon stockings has contributed to the rise in oral cancer. Let's all buy nylon stockings; surely oral cancer will disappear quickly. People often misunderstand the difference between correlation and causation. Or was Kevin attempting to be satirical? Good satirists (cf., Jonathan Swift) engage in constructive social criticism. Kevin, your critical point was what? Oh, I know, you were just trying to be funny. Ha, ha.

Lol nice *mock* theory! It reminds me of a banner I had on a shirt that read "don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive".....Clearly BB needs to recover it's *cool* and *wow factor*. In BB10 there is a gr8 opportunity for RIM to do that...they have shown good promise with what is being done to that end and they can't be under any illusions that they must nail BB10...and no compromises! Productivity and reliability yes, but the market demands that wow experience...so it's a tight space and execution of BB10 has to be flawless!

you do know the iPhone hypnotizes people with a subliminal screen backing and it says to them, just buy app dont work just play game, dont live just be an apple. thats why your economy is in a decline, that and 15 years worth of useless warring.

I knew it.... Apple caused the GFC... makes total sense to me

BlackBerry has been Canada's savior from economic disaster like the rest of the world...nuff said!

I just love this!! This is why I have a BlackBerry and am a member of CrackBerry.com!!

Hey Kevin, go to Catch tonight (meatpacking district) you will enjoy yourself!!

Add Facebook and Twitter to the graph and you will really have some compelling stats.

Gatchaa....HAHAHA.....Kevin the Fearless Leader...I start to understand why you call yourself like that. Brave and brilliant posting...so confrontational. although this just a joke but it make sense still. Could be there is a correlation... salute dude!

The RIMpire will be back, FALL 2012.

Even as comedy, this fails. The argument is that BB is good for the economy because it is boring. Great message.

RIM is starting to get what the market is wanting. I love my physical keyboards on my Tour and Style. I want to get another physical keyboard phone from Waterloo. Packed with so many things it will take a month to learn everything. I want a product that I can integrate with my life, not just to make a phone call. I have such hopes for RIM. I'm still waiting...........

Wait Wait WAIT!!!!! Apple is to blame for the Bush administration's collapsing of the economy? That is weak Crackberry Kevin! Market the platform and phone based on its strengths! Forget about attacking the competition cause as i remember they had US$200 Billion that alone tells you that people purchased their product driving the wheels economics! Plain and simple I used to be one of those sounding the Blackberry horn until my last BB purchase a Torch 9810 when I was promised adios spinning clock and guess what! Until the ecosystem comes on par heck even close to Apple's I only use my berry for BBM and emails everything else like browsing, quality apps and games I use my iPhone.

You should post one of 1999-2005 for blackberry.

It's not a certain administration, people have to remember that any administration is only in control for a limited amount of time, 8 years max to be exact. My issue is with the career politicians in the senate and house. You see them on television celebrating 20,30,40 years and all that time with great benefits and retirement. Yet with all that most couldn't even tell how much a gallon of gas or milk cost. When was the last time they ironed a shirt or did a load of laundry. My perception is that they are so out of touch with reality that they have the concept all wrong. They don't know what life is like for the rest of us. Term limits for every elected official in D.C.

"Someone" seems to have a love and hate relationship with Apple !

this article making unjustified connections and is loaded with speculation

the i on the iPhones was a typo - the original name was l for L , the lPhone >:P

So Kevin, does this mean that when BB10 comes out you will stop buying iPhones and iPads and sell the ones you currently use?

Crackberry Kevin wrote:

Every time I pick up the iPhone 4S, I find myself wishing the display was bigger. It feels so small these days, especially after spending time on a device like the Galaxy Nexus (who’s screen is arguably a little too big). I really hope we see a bigger display on iPhone 5. I’m also finding Siri just doesn’t yet fit into my mobile lifestyle. I never find myself instinctively using it, and even when I put it to use it’s more of a hassle. In retrospect, I probably could have stuck with my iPhone 4 another year and waited for the iPhone 5, vs. going to the 4S.

http://www.imore.com/2012/04/14/iphone-4s-six-months/

Interesting comparison.