Apple iPad just keeps eating Blackberrys

 

Apple’s iPad pretty much owns the tablet mar­ket. It’s competitors really can not compare. Sorry competitors I have more bad news. iPad’s enterprise market share is growing. One wonders does more tablets mean less windows machines?

Good Tech­nol­o­gy a enter­prise mobile ser­vices ven­dor reports that Apple’s iPad account­ed for 96% of tablets acti­vat­ed at the com­pa­nies that use the com­pa­ny’s ser­vices. The iPhone accounted for 53% of new phone activations. That is a very big percentage. It comes out to be about 71% of  mobile enter­prise devices  iOS. That does not sound very good for Blackberry, Android  and Windows device.

RIM confirms: New Blackberry 7 phones are dying when it goes to sleep

Are you one of the owners of a BlackBerry Bold 9900 or 9930 phone that wakes to a dead phone even though you know you left it charging the night before?  You are not alone. It seems that phones being left to charge all night does nothing more than kill the battery. RIM confirmed they had an issue and stating that  “limited number of customers have reported an issue where their device does not power on. We are actively working on a software update to resolve this issue.”

It’s always a limited amount of users until everyone starts taking note. Apple said the same thing about iPhone 4S and iOS5 battery issues at first. They also said the same thing about the antenna. Note to companies: If there is an issue don’t downplay because those limited number of customers have an unlimited amount of friends online.  RIM has not given out any stats about how many phones are going bad but it’s only the start. I’m sure we will get more later this week. It’s been said before but it’s not a good year to be RIM or a RIM stock holder.

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Gives a public apology for ongoing World Wide BlackBerry outage

Lazaridis said “We’ve let many of you down. You expect better from us. And I expect better from us. We are working around the clock to fix this.” RIM had thought the issue was resolved late Monday. They were wrong the service interruptions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa led to a back log of data. This is what the current issue is. The main core switch failure issue has been taken care of but all that back log of emails and text have to catch up. It’s like a clogged drain of data right now for RIM.

Lazaridis said said that “normal BlackBerry service levels” in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa where it all started are back to normal. The co-chief warned that RIM is not out of the woods yet. That is correct it is going to take a while for all that data to get back to normal. There are a lot of companies and most of the US government use RIM daily. Productivity should be at a all time high. People can go old school and hands on. Make phone calls, remember that, a voice not a text?   This is not a good time for this to happen. The iPhone 4S comes out Friday. I look for a lot of people to jump ship on the failing company. Unfortunately Enterprise do not have that luxury.

Blackberry: Black & Blue year continues. Service out for 3rd day

BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and even some areas in South America are still without access to the Wen or messaging services for the third consecutive day. BlackBerry had said the issues were resolved following one day of service interruptions to millions of users.

Research In Motion confirmed earlier that a bug on a Blackberry server was responsible for the issues they have had.  There were millions offline on Monday. Than on Tuesday that the interruption continued. The bug that is the caused a core switch failure is still not fixed. RIM now says the outage has caused a large backlog of data that must be cleared before service can return to normal. No firm timeline has been issued.

 

RIM says on the support website: Service update

Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to many of you and we will continue to keep you informed.

BlackBerry Messenger will finally be on Android & iDevices

BGR is reporting that  Research In Motion (RIM) is bring BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to Android and  iDevices.  When? We have no idea. Sometime this year is a pretty forgiving time frame. According to BGR’s sources, RIM has not yet come up pricing but it might be free. I do not think it will be free. They would have to charge for it. Just a reasonable one time fee. It would not be a smart move to charge a monthly fee for it. Less they want to give Apple a 30% cut each month.

RIM will offer stripped down versions of the BBM experience found on BlackBerry devices.  That means they would not be able to share photos, location, or videos. So it will be just text. Which all I want anyway. If you want to full deal of everything BBM has to offer you would have to get  a BlackBerry device.

RIM Playbook: Who Gives a Flash About iPad?

Just in time for CES 2011, this BlackBerry PlayBook web fidelity video demonstrates rich multimedia, Adobe Flash games and social networking websites like Facebook running in the BlackBerry Browser.