Originally Posted by
ryan182
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.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your point.
Whether most of the people using online services on an airplane are checking their corporate email or their facebook messenger (and btw, the majority of facebook users are now over 30) is irrelevant. The question is whether or not people will *pay to use* the Blackberry service on an airplane.
The answer in the United States is unequivocally yes.
I encourage you to look around at the dominant device being used by customers in premium cabins on arrival at major airports. You will notice Blackberries outnumbering other smartphones by 5:1 (or more). Even on JFK-SFO, I rarely see people in C class pull out an iPhone (much as I'd want them to).
B6 is doing something *super* smart with this product. It's the lowest hanging fruit, very well targeted, and *precisely* how I'd roll it out myself.
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