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Oct 28, 09 - 09:13 am Comment from: Macintosher

Thanks for your high-quality pro-Apple clipart, MDN. No, seriously, the one above is actually quite funny!

Oct 28, 09 - 09:17 am Comment from: Demon

Always best to let revisions of failed products to ease in to the market so that they may vanish from that market with little to no fanfare.

Oct 28, 09 - 09:25 am Comment from: MacTony

LOL. iCal is a great thing

Oct 28, 09 - 09:26 am Comment from: silverhawk

Gotta loved iCal'd quotes.

Oct 28, 09 - 09:33 am Comment from: Mahoodas

'When the going gets tough, the tough get going'. RIP Blackberry Storm.

Oct 28, 09 - 09:50 am Comment from: Jamie

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RIM's problem is that it has Microsoftitis – it's so afraid to alienate its legacy customers (those who want the physical keyboard and tiny trackball) that it can never drop those products and go all in on a touchscreen device.

So RIM will die a slow death, all the while crowing about how it is preserving its legacy software because its customers demand a physical screen. Well, those customers didn't have a device with a full keyboard until they bought Blackberrys or Treos, and they adapted just fine then.

When you get stuck in time, you quickly become the past.

You can't just polish a Zune/Storm and call it version 2 and think its going to be applauded in the marketplace.

Oct 28, 09 - 10:40 am Comment from: Jubei

Keep those IT/CIO asses happy BB, its the only thing saving your butt.

Oct 28, 09 - 11:10 am Comment from: hardmanb

It's the SOFTWARE, stupid!

Oct 28, 09 - 11:57 am Comment from: cptnkirk

The buggy manufacturers are please to introduce the newly released, innovative buggy whip. Its new features provide you with a means of getting ahead of those new-fangled horseless carriages. step right up. Who'll be first?

aaah that old iCaled CNET review where have I heard words like that before, though actually not as optimistic. Sounds familiar to the over optimistic feelings expressed about Windows 7 (indeed Vista on launch) doesn't it. How the World turns, and turns again and foolish optimism banished to room 101.

Would someone please splain to me what it means to "iCal" something?

I use iCal to remind me of known upcoming events. I don't see how you can use to to tell you anything if an unknown event happens sometime in the future.

Oct 28, 09 - 02:36 pm Comment from: Cubert

Hit whore? Given that statement, shouldn't it be crack whore?

MDN should take their long list of quotations that they iCal to throw in anal-ysts faces and put them out in an App. Maybe it could be turned into a game like stump the Chump or a Geocaching Treasure Hunt.

@ICal:

I'd like to know also, but unless I read differently, I'm going to assume "to iCal" means using some sort of text file data base and a key- word search function.

I stopped by the Verizon store by chance and there it was...the Storm 2. I was surprised to see it because there was not much buzz about the actual release date. I picked it up and it felt just like the first mess. The text input was slightly better and was fast going app to app. I was there in the morning and Verizon had yet to activate the demo so I could not check out the browser. RIM has to go all in on touch or not at all. This half touch and half traditional BB OS is not cutting it and will ruin its reputation. If there is ever a Storm 3 or a completely new BB touch device they need to get it right.

As a frame of reference on this topic, I recently upgraded to the Blackberry Tour, and the experience left me pondering why so many solution providers (RIM in this case) confuse delivering a bunch of ‘chicken parts’ with producing an actual, living, breathing chicken.

I blogged on the experience, and would only caveat that I am a happy Verizon customer, a Mac user, an enthusiastic iPod Touch owner and was replacing a BB 7130e with the Tour:

iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts
http://bit.ly/1rz7y7

Check out the post if interested.

Mark

@iCal and jaundiced

I wish it were that cool, but no. When some dumb pundit who has never produced anything useful in his/her life says something stupid, MDN records it in their iCal Calendar and sets the notification to remind them of the quote one year later. That way we can all laugh at how stupid they are.

It's quite fun, but not as fun as you thought it was.

Oct 28, 09 - 10:17 pm Comment from: macerroneous

I know you want to hear my theory, so here it is. BBY wants its "touch" products to suck. Why? because there are probably thousands of current BBY users who will go in and try the Storm and realize "this thing sucks, I need a physical keyboard" and therefore never consider an iPhone. The crappy Storm clickscreen actually taints the touch experience. If their customers finally experienced anything as organic as an iPhone interface, they might actually start comparing the other features and realize how badly they are being ripped off by RIM and turn to a clearly superior device. There really is NO reason anyone should chose any Blackberry over an iPhone (other than carrier).

Oct 29, 09 - 05:29 am Comment from: Shado Control

@Jamie

Hilarious dude

@Dallas:

Thanks for the explanation/tip. Now that I know, I can think of ways I can use it too.

Oct 30, 09 - 05:46 am Comment from: ahcas

@iCal, jaundiced, Dallas:

- you can do a search within iCal as well, so I think MDN ad an event on the day they get they read a quote, label it something like 'Blackberry Quote' and put the whole quote in the comments / Notes field in iCal

- then, when they have a Blackberry article to publish, they use iCal's search function to find all events labelled something like 'Blackberry Quote', scroll through the list of found quotes and copy & paste the relevant quote, noting the day of the quote

- of course, all of the above can be accomplished with any database system (I recommend Filemaker Pro), but for convenience, iCal is great if you put the quote in an event on the day the quote came out and do searches as above...