That argument doesn't hold much water anymore. I have friends who work at some of the top investment banks - JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank are two of which I know are offering the iPhone as a choice instead of the blackberry.
Also, a lawyer friend at a top tier law firm was offered the iPhone as an alternative as well - granted he didn't take it. A decision he regrets.
It's only a matter of time - no one wants to carry 2 devices and their employers are keen to it.
I'd be very curious to see some real-world speed tests (not just one of the "I'm typing on an iPhone; now I'm typing on a Bold" videos) with a decent sample size and current hardware.
I can type faster now on my iPhone than I ever imagined possible on a mobile device, thanks to three things: autocorrect, adaptive key hitboxes (look up the patent; it's pretty cool), and the lack of tactile feedback.
Yes, lack of tactile feedback. Merely making contact with a surface takes slightly less time than pressing the travel distance of a key, and it adds up. In my experience, the loss in accuracy from lack of tactility is more than compensated for by the iPhone keyboard's advantages.
Here is another data point, my finance, who's in sales and a Droid user for a year, recently got a Blackberry for work. She didn't like it at all. Blackberry is not going away anytime soon due long enterprise sales cycle. But like fertel said, it's only a matter of time.
I think this a big mistake by rim. It's one of the few reasons that users are still on their platform. They also just gave all of their users that won't leave for bbm a reason. Also, from the wording in the article it seems that it will be vastly crippled (messaging only), cost money, and won't be out for many months.
Full disclosure: launching a mobile messaging app called freespeech at SXSW.
9-5 at an investment bank - Sure it's 4x the money (or was)- but it's 100+ hours of weekly work that in my personal opinion is nowhere near as exciting as creating new technologies.
I would love to see the specific patent(s) Kik is infringing upon. It's a pretty standard IM client, if as the article says it is for: "sent, delivered, read, and even when a user is typing a message." then RIM has a lot of apps to go after.
Could be something more than that, as the CEO was a RIM employee at one point.
I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.
