Apple Vs Rim

Shockingly, AT&T and Verizon were behind ill-fated BlackBerry "Apple Killer" Storm and Torch

By Simon Sage, Friday, Jun 29, 2012 a 11:27 am

Remember those stories about BlackBerry maker RIM working on what they internally referred to as an "Apple Killer"? Remember how that turned out for them with the BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Torch? Well, it turns out everyone has Verizon and AT&T to thank for that. Shocking, right?

RIM Australia admits it was responsible for Wake Up flashmob at Sydney Apple Store

By chrissyboy6969, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 a 9:16 am

RIM Australia has confirmed that it was responsible for the flashmob attack on a Sydney Apple Store.

RIM complains about Apple stacking vote for nano-SIM standard

By Simon Sage, Friday, Mar 30, 2012 a 1:54 pm

Despite offering to license the nano-SIM standard royalty-free, Apple is getting flak from RIM for recruiting additional proxies in the voting process. Nokia had made similar complaints when Apple initially made the proposal to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ditching BlackBerry in favor of iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 a 10:58 pm

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will soon be ditching their BlackBerrys in favor of iPhones and iPads. They will continue to support the BlackBerry platform until May 12, 2012 according to a memo issues February 3rd.

BlackBerry and Android strike back: BBX superphones and Galaxy Nexus

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011 a 9:49 am

Apple had their big Let's talk iPhone event a couple of weeks ago and have now released [iOS 5](http://www.imore.com/iOS 5) and iCloud, and launched the iPhone 4S -- now it's RIM's and Google's turn.

Kevin and Adam from CrackBerry.com are live at BlackBerry Dev Con 2011, hoping to get their keyboard-crunching hands on a next generation BBX (QNX) based superphone and Playbook OS 2.0.

BlackBerry opposing Apple's WebKit trademark filing

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Aug 31, 2011 a 9:50 am

BlackBerry maker RIM is opposing Apple's trademark filing for WebKit, the open source browser rendering engine they developer based on Linux Konquerer/KHTML. WebKit has become the most popular browser engine in Mobile, powering iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Safari, as well as BlackBerry's Torch Mobile, Google's Android, Palm's webOS, and other browsers -- as well as Apple Safari and Google Chrome on PCs. So popular, in fact, that RIM couldn't wait to advertise they'd finally joined the modern internet by getting a WebKit browser.

Could that be part of the reason for the opposition, fears that Apple would try to restrict use of the trademark? Even CrackBerry.com doesn't seem to know for sure.

Apple Store opens in BlackBerry hometown of Waterloo

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 13, 2011 a 3:12 pm

Apple opened a handful of new Apple Stores today, none more amusingly placed than the one in Waterloo, Ontario, the hometown of BlackBerry maker RIM. Starting today, anyone in Waterloo who wants an iPhone rather than Bold, iPad rather than PlayBook can just wander on over. And according to @Steve_Gamble, they seem to be doing just that:

At the new Apple Store in Waterloo today. The number of Blackberries going dark is astounding!

Anyone else attending the opening of Apple in Waterloo? Any CrackBerry protests going? Let us know!

The difference between Mike Lazaridis and Steve Jobs

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 15, 2011 a 12:04 am

Jonathan Geller, the Boy Genius, reports that Mike Lazardis was convinced of BlackBerry's superior design and feature focus, long after the proverbial ship hit the not-so-proverbial iceberg:

Why is RIM running away from BlackBerry to battle Apple?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 17, 2010 a 1:28 pm

Why is RIM running away from BlackBerry in order to try and keep up, never mind compete, with Apple's iPad, never mind iPhone? Georgia, Chad, Ally and I spoke about this at length on last Sunday's iPad Live! podcast but given RIM's financial results and accompanying comments this week, I think it's appropriate to get some text behind it now as well.

Apple Passes RIM to Become No. 4 Global Mobile Phone Vendor

By Staff, Friday, Oct 29, 2010 a 9:59 am

The IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker claims that Apple's record Q3 this year was exactly what it needed to bypass RIM and take over the fourth spot on their list of global mobile phone vendors. Apple is currently still behind, Nokia, Samsung and LG according to a report from Business Wire. Apple has been a dominant force in mobile phones since the introduction of the original iPhone 3 years ago but has never been able to sneak into the top 5 list of global mobile phone vendors. Their arrival into the top 5 knocked out Sony Ericsson devices the first time since IDC started this survey back in 2004.