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1. Brian, I think perhaps you need to read around a bit. The BlackBerry roadmap for devices for the next YEAR has leaked out last week. Nobody will be standing on a stage with a BlackBerry 10 device for MANY MANY more months, in a BEST case scenario the FIRST BlackBerry 10 phone might hit the streets just before Christmas 2012. How many MIILIONS and MILLIONS more iPhones and Android will have shipped by then? This isn't about the next 3 months, if you think Thorsten is somehow going to magically make devices appear in 3 months and get into users hands shortly after that, you are living the dream world normally assocatied with Apple fanboies... The point is, there's not room in the North America mobile phone market for 4 top mobile operating system platforms. It's a reach to think there's really even room for 3. Clearly Apple and Google have the top two spots sewn up for the forseeable future, thus it becomes a battle for 3rd place. Hence my comment regarding "MS/Nokia juggernaut". By the time BlackBerry 10 even LAUNCHES, let alone gets multiple devices in the hands of North America carriers, there will be DOZENS of WP devices at the carriers, and not just from Nokia but Samsung, HTC, and so on. To sell mobile phones in North America, the carriers have to be willing to commit to your platform, and developers have to want to design apps for your platform, and neither are happening for BlackBerry in the ways there are happening for WP. THAT is why I believe BlackBerry will be relegated to a distant 4th place in the North America market.
2. Let me see if I have this right... They "knew" he was a "star", and they've been grooming him for "years" to take over? Meanwhile, in the REAL world during those years RIM has failed miserably, and any honest assessment of their position in USA would have to recognize they have gone from being the top dog to being now an almost irrelevant 4th mobile platform in a world that likely won't tolerate more than two or three major platforms. Sad to say, as big of a BlackBerry fan as I have been, but its really hard to see ANY possibility for RIM to turn it around enough to put the coming MS/Nokia juggernaut down, let alone challenge Apple or Google for one of the top spots. The time for action was 3 or 4 years ago, but RIM CEO's totally missed seeing they needed to fundamentally change their core business philosophy THEN. It's WAY too late now...
3. Sounds to me like more legal shenanigans from Kodak in light of their recent filing for bankruptcy. It seems Kodak has joined the long list of companies that would rather litigate than innovate.
4. I guess SodaStream trolls blogs and sends out free sample units to sites that agree to evaluate and post a review. This sort of thing (reviews of products totally unrelated to BlackBerry) has been going on here for quite a long time, the first I recall that springs to mind was some vaccuum cleaner I think. Kinda weird, and I wish Ronen would decline the freebies as IMHO it takes away from what the site is all about...
5. OTA installed perfectly fine on my BES 9930. But I WILL be grabbing this for later use.
6. I picked this up for my Fire the other day when it was the free app of the day. Very nice! Speaking of which, App World should consider doing a free app of the day. What better way to encourage checking out App World every day than by giving folks a free app when they do!?!
7. I didn't get a notification on my 9930, but when I did a check about 1am this morning the update was available and I installed.
8. Have to really be a huge music fan to drop a hundred bucks on something like this... :)
9. I would much rather see a landscape slider than another portrait slider like this (and Torch).
10. I would much rather see it integrated with Wallet and Blackberry ID, but with RIM's position in the USA I just don't see them being able to hold off the carriers. And no doubt the carriers will be flexing their muscles on everything related to NFC.

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