Bad times for Blackberry

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fergus

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My take on the issue is that RIM won't shut down. They might have to pay serious royalties, but it makes no sense for NTP to kill off it's only source of income.

There are a host of competitive products and services on the horison such as the Nokia one. From an analytical point of view, these need to be watched.
 
The blackberry service died the day Microsoft launched Exchange 2003 SP2... The active synch functionality duplicates Blackberry, and given that Exchange is the incumbent mail system in most large organisations, it follows that corporates will adopt the MS approach rather. You also wont be tied to one specific handset vendor...
 
Except that the American love for pagers is neatly extended by the 'Crackberry'. It's only recent that voice was added in the US market, they like it simple....

For example, my BB lasts 2 weeks between charges and requires no fiddling, my JasJar half a day and I constantly have to help it do stuff like getting connected.

On the BB legal issue, the patent office have declared the 5 patents on which NTP's case is based, invalid.
 
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Its all American Patents... In vehicle tracking I ran in to an american patent that stated "Transmission of any geographic information for purposes of location finding" was patented!
now anyone with 1/2 a braincell can see that the patent is crap.

Luckily SA patents are different.
 
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