Originally Posted by
cordelli
Seriously, the way it shipped, is there anything else that can be removed from it?
I think my expectations were off on this one. I thought of it more as a stand alone device, and it appears that BlackBerry instead is thinking of it as a companion for people who have a blackberry and service. Looking at it that way, I can see where it has a place, though I believe they are totally missing the boat on the stand alone market.
I saw this an article about these comments a bit ago by the CEO of RIM.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...r-the-web.html
My first thought was, they're dead.
It is especially interesting since it really was Apple that brought the web and high data usage/access to the mobile phone market in a big way.