A few hours of downtime and RIM is suddenly the Antichrist.
Be grateful that the sinking ship is still trying to get you to dry land.
A few hours of downtime and RIM is suddenly the Antichrist.
Be grateful that the sinking ship is still trying to get you to dry land.
DIE RIM DIE
This is my world, and you're not welcome in my world.
+1Originally Posted by DrYes
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I dont use BB but see value in their patents, so i will not know about the dry land but the writing is on the wall re: them dying
Downtime just add to the problem when they seriously do not need it.
I am sitting here in Bushmans with friends and the outage case my friend to use my phone to fire off an email, 1st time he actually used an Android. He claimed come August he will be looking at an Android phone(No idea if he will follow through). The whole experience would not have happened if it was not for the downtime. I am not claiming this is the only one or that this alone will hurt them just that downtime can cause people to see things they normally would not notice.
Last edited by Elimentals; 01-07-2012 at 09:44 AM.
.... and thanks for all the fish.
+100
Playing with a Android tablet running 3.1 ( Honeycomb? ). It's nice but my BB still my best communications tool ( bbm, facebook, twitter, mail etc ).
Last edited by Kosmik; 01-07-2012 at 09:38 AM.
The stories about RIMs failures has been repeated ad nauseum.The fact the I can still use the blasted thing gives me great satisfaction up until I'd have no choice but to move.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
I'm with you
Yep.
But, I have corrected a part of your post.
Last week I saw a brochure with 500MB per month for R49.
It was on a modem so I don't know if you can add it to your contract or prepaid number.
Nevertheless, the point I am making is that yes, indeed, data prices are becoming more manageable.
Apparently you can't bolt data bundle prices on to a cellular contract? I mean the bundles used with modems/router.
;-) @ edit
R99 per GB is acceptable in my books for bolt on data onto an existing voice contract at this stage. It is nowhere near ADSL data pricing and still double Cell C's 2GB per month for R99 (I have the prepaid 2gb per month for 12 months @ R1299 in my laptop) but it is better than the R2 per mb we used to pay a few years ago!!!
You can't. Otherwise, BIS would not be worthwhile.
@komsik - sure you can. Go to Vodacom's site. They have 2 bolt on options: standard gives you no discounted out of bundle data rate and is cheaper. Advanced gives you the same out of bundle rate but the initial bundle costs more.
That is because they playing the "How low can you go" game. So we can not peg the exact moment but we all know its coming.
I would love see how people react to your second part, when the Company goes belly up halfway through a 2 year contract. If I used BB personally I would get a Android/iPhone/WP on my contract renewal and continue to use a Old BB to be honest.
Last edited by Elimentals; 01-07-2012 at 10:09 AM.
.... and thanks for all the fish.
"Sorry, our services are down, and the engineers were retrenched so you may expect a longer than normal recovery time".
The problem here is that it is not only about their downtime last year and yesterday. Their service is generally sluggish at the best of times and unusable on weekday evenings. Add to this these outages and who can blame users (myself included) for starting to see that the R69 BIS fee isn't as worth it as we first thought
Also - I am using the Torch 9800. The 9810 has replaced mine and still costs over R7k to buy prepaid. A Samsung Galaxy S3 costs similiar money and that thing is like a Ferrari to my Fiat Palio Torch.
Blackberry's are horribly overpriced and do not have anywhere near the power or spec that Android of iPhone devices do. Even the Curve 8520 which is now a donkey goes for a fraction under 2 grand. My wife still has one and it's rubbish!
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