Lambdacurry

Are Palm, Apple and Android competing with Blackberry, even in the same universe ?


The answer - NO.

This post is basically out of a comment I posted on Hacker News.

Blackberrys are killer on messaging not apps. The answer to the Blackberry question is more server-side than client-side.Here in India, I see most of the hip young crowd carrying Blackberrys. Note that unlocked, grey-market iPhones are available in India at not-too-deterring prices. But Blackberrys are defacto, and all you see people doing is message, message, message.

We have some of the rock bottom rates on calls and SMS - yet you can buy a fixed-rate Blackberry messenger subscription at nearly every service provider in India which lets you do unlimited group messaging (irrespective of domestic or international). I think you can also group-message a certain number of multimedia items.

Now that is something that not even Apple has cracked. The system is seamless.

Prediction for the consumer market

The only competition to Blackberry in the hip-messaging market will come with the Facebook phone which will seamlessly integrate the mobile angle to the Facebook Messaging platform.

Prediction for the enterprise market

R.I.M can only be broken by the final integration of Google Voice, Gizmo5, Slide/Disco and some form of video chat into Android. The notification-bar on Android is simply custom built for messaging notifications.


Lambdacurry

Are Palm, Apple and Android competing with Blackberry, even in the same universe ?

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March 27, 2011

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