ryan:

With all due respect, you're 100% wrong. If you've ever known any Blackberry user (consumer or otherwise), they are absolutely addicted to their email. Addicted. Any access is better than none, and the key thing about the BB is that it replaces your need for computer access for the "stickiest" activity that you do - email.

And now that Facebook messages can be handled directly in email, well - there goes the neighborhood.

I also just want to point out that B6 is a US-only airline (pretty much), so supporting the (esoteric) Symbian OS or the (ridiculously crappy) WinMobile OS is pretty stupid for them, wouldn't you say?

Now, UA needs to do a global full-Internet rollout. Nothing less will do AFAIC.

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