You can’t do AJAX without JavaScript – so it would be silly for RIM to have it turned off.

apple is notorious for being agressive in securing and protecting its intellectual property rights. at the same time, they are also notorious for stealing rights that were never their’s to begin with (e.g. Teledex’s IPHONE). i was surprised to hear that apple had obtained a trademark registration for the bubble design — so i did a quick search on the us patent & trademark’s website, and could not locate a registered mark for the bubble design (or even a pending trademark application). of course, they can claim they have rights in the mark, as well as rights in the trade dress (overall appearance of the bubble design), but these claims may or not hold up. from a trademark perspective, i highly doubt the bubble design can function as a trademark, and even be registered. the claims to the glossy elements in the trade dress of the bubble design are, in my opinion baseless. they are common elements used widely in numerous applications. so to claim exclusive rights to these elements is just plain nonsense.

Add to your list the insanity of the new partner program, the ridiculous price, and the implication that it has more to do with what we can do for RIM than it does with what RIM can do for us, and RIM’s cruising for second-class status as a platform.

Don’t get me wrong — I’ve been a big RIM supporter and believe they are one of the two companies in the mobile space that’s actually targeted a group of customers and been able to capitalize effectively. But things are looking different than even two years ago and it doesn’t appear as if RIM understands how to target anyone but enterprise customers, even though they are selling lots of Pearls to consumers.

“Great people – Additionally, I’ve had the chance of working with some people from the company, and all the folks I’ve worked with so far are really nice, sensible, and really really helpful!!! RIM is awesome because even though the Alliance program has been shutdown temporarily until September, they allowed me to get BIS-B access so that I could sell my apps outside of the US/Canada, where BIS-B access is critical! For this, and so much more, I am indebted to RIM, and despite all their shortcomings, really love the company and it’s people! And I think they are heading in the right direction! I like that that newer devices have robust CPUs, lots of RAM, and decent graphics. There’s a long way to go still, but I think they are on the right path.”

This is why ScreamingToaster is committed to building BlackBerry apps. BlackBerry ROCKS! RIM ROCKS! Just because they are going through growing pains right now, does NOT mean that they are not making all the right moves.

Nazmul, ScreamingToaster