Originally Posted by
gabrielz
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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While lots of BB users may be "addicted" to email, I think that you're going to find more corporate people wanted to get work done who will *pay* to use the service on an airplane than say my little sister who wants to check their facebook.
As for Symbian being estoeric, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion but its quite incorrect.
Windows Mobile, well I do like some things of pocket outlook better than goodlink and then there are certainly many things I don't like. Fact of the matter is Exchange dominates in corporate email and by extension Outlook owns the corporate email client market, with DirectPush now essentially free....well it wouldn't be the first time MS pushed itself into owning the majority of a market with a subpar product.