The title of this post over on CNNMoney.com, “Research Got It’s Motion Back”, really sucks so I’ve decided to just tell you whats going on in the title over here on RIMarkable.
The graphic to the right pretty much sums it up. It has that sharp up and to the right curve that any CEO would love to have and much of the trend was right in the middle of one of the biggest patent infringement cases ever.
There were “definitely concerns” among customers “but as soon as that settlement was done, that concern was lifted and [RIM] returned back to their normal growth,” said Nick Agostino, an analyst with Research Capital.
Just look at how RIM is doing compared to other handheld markers…
Like I said, Research in Motion is doing well for itself.
I think Blackberry remembers how to get the “it just works” factor right, particularly for the enterprise level.
With too many of these devices, the companies put in a bunch of bells and whistles (cameras, wifi, GPS, video, subscriber-only features) and then forget that the phone itself has to be comfortably held and used. Yeah great, you can take full motion video but you can’t talk for 5 minutes without the sound cutting out.
We may gripe about the lack of all these features with Blackberry but they seem to wait until it all works correctly before putting it out there. As an enterprise platform, Blackberry knows companies will pay for performance on the key features, on demand email and a solid voice line.