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RIM Steals Microsoft's Stolen Apple Designer to Create "New Experience" -- VistaBerry Cometh?

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 10, 2009 a 11:20 am

No, we're not talking about Bono. Sigh. We're talking about Don Lindsay, who was, according to Apple Insider:

Design Director of the Mac OS User Experience Group, he led what was called the "Mac OS X interface concept project" and directed the design team responsible for the user experience of Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah" through Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther," which included the company's first-generation of iLife digital lifestyle applications.

Send in the iClones: BlackBerry App Store Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Feb 19, 2009 a 10:39 am

Our public frenemy number 1, CrackBerry Kevin, tipped us to RIM revealing details of their latest "innovation", the BlackBerry App Store (and no, we're not jaded that the company that once said touchscreens were a non-starter is now high-five'ing themselves silly over winning the self-awarded "breakthrough" prize for the Storm's SurePress at Mobile World Congress -- iSigh).

iPhone Jeopardy Rerun: Ballmer, Lazaridis, and Colligan Edition!

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 a 9:37 am

This. Is. iPhone JEOPARDY!... Judges Round!

Way back on March 14 we covered some of the bold, bodacious pontifications the CEOh-no's of Microsoft, RIM, and Palm had made about the iPhone. Quick-on-the-buzzer as always, it's time once again to go back to our judges and see how they did!

"Why We're Not Worried about the iPhone" for 100

Ed Colligan:

"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."

Daily Double-Talk

iPhone Marketshare: Will Apple Take the #1 Spot From RIM's Blackberry? - TiPb of the Iceberg

By Dieter Bohn, Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 a 11:55 am

[Here's a bonus TiPb of the Iceberg for you this week, courtesy of the humongous news coming out of Apple's Quarterly Conference Call]

Tuesday's news that the iPhone has been selling ~~well~~ stupendously well, in case you weren't paying attention, was really big. It's tough to express how big. Some of the bullet points:

They exceeded their sales goal of 10 million iPhones in 2008 already, with the holiday season still ahead of them
They sold nearly 7 million iPhones in three months.
They sold more iPhones than RIM sold BlackBerrys (yes, that's the proper plural spelling)
Based on revenue from iPhones, Apple was the #3 cellphone maker last quarter, behind only Nokia and Samsung.
They achieved all this in 15 months.

Now, there are caveats to these numbers: there was pent-up demand for the iPhone 3G so these numbers almost surely won't hold; RIM's sales were depressed because of delays releasing the BlackBerry Bold. Don't let these caveats mislead you, though, what Apple did with the iPhone 3G in the past three months is unprecedented in the mobile industry, it was pretty much unprecedented in any industry.

Blackberry Clones iPhone SDK Roadmap Event!

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 a 12:41 pm

No, it's not Deja Vu. No one has reset the Matrix (we think...) It's just another Apple follow-along. To paraphrase Bertrand Serlet: Waterloo, start your photocopiers!

Not content with merely iCloning the iPhone look with the Bold or touchscreen with the Storm, during the Blackberry Developer Conference today, RIM basically repeated Apple's iPhone SDK Roadmap Event announcements from back in March, note for note.

App Store? Check. Push Notification Service? Gotcha. Integrated Development Environment? Why not! iFund? App-solutely!

CEOh-Snap: RIM Blames iPhone for AT&T Bold-faced Delays!

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Oct 4, 2008 a 2:55 pm

Pop quiz. You announce the hawt new tic-tac-tile handset in May for a Summer release yet Summer comes and goes, and one of the largest carriers in one of the largest geekphone markets in the world (that'd be AT&T in the USA) keeps rejecting your firmware -- over and over again.

Attack of the iClones: RIM Storm Rising Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Sep 16, 2008 a 2:55 pm

The iPhone shook up a very complacent smartphone world, but if we think it exists in a vacuum, if we think the other big players won't respond (no matter how embarrassingly long it might take them), and if we don't hope that they do -- hardcore style -- to prevent Apple from one day getting just as complacent, then we're not doing our jobs as bloggers or consumers.

Attack of the iClones: Blackberry ThunderStorm Clicktastic Edition!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008 a 12:55 pm

The. Whole. Screen. Is. A. Flipping. Tic. Tac. Tile. Button.

Seriously. We kid you not (though RIM could be kidding us all?). Sister-site Crackberry.com has all the deets, but...

Seriously? Who's the usability wizard who came up with this one? Who came up with the single-click point of failure concept? The one mechanism to break it all?

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, September 6th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 a 1:55 pm

Not evil twin to theiPhoneBlog.com Week in Review, not an invasion by Fake Steve, This Week in Smart Phone Schadenfreude brings you all the feel-better news you need about the smartphone world outside Apple’s current media dominator. (Who knew there was such a world? We were just as surprised! Inelegant, interface challenged, keyboardy, crashy, single-touchy place — best not to linger…). Join us as we mock review the big news from last week at our sister sites. Everybody loves sibling rivalry!