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Dec 17, 2011 / 10:55pm

RIP, RIM

RIM has introduced almost 40 new smart phone models since Apple released the first iPhone about 4 years ago, and even Blackberry experts have a hard time figuring out the differences, since the model numbers are ridiculous (quick: What's the difference between a BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860?) and there are too many kinds of phones (touch screens, hardware keyboard, touch screens and hardware keyboard, sliders, and more, oh my).
(A RIM executive actually said this week that the company didn't know how many Blackberry models it currently sells. Good stuff.)

RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007

The iPhone "couldn't do what [Apple was] demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life," Shacknews poster Kentor heard from his former colleagues of the time. "Imagine their surprise [at RIM] when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it."

The Death Of RIM

BlackBerries do one thing incredibly well, process e-mail.

And that’s it.

If you think BlackBerries surf the Web well, then you don’t, or have never used an iPhone.

Gulf states order Blackberry users to cover their phones in a tiny burqa

Some businessmen believe that making their phone wear a burqa can be very liberating. ‘It’s great,’ said one, ‘with the veil in place I am free to walk about with my Blackberry in public without the feeling that people are staring lustily at my multi-media application. It also covers my shame for not owning an iPhone.’

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RIP, RIM

RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007

The Death Of RIM

Gulf states order Blackberry users to cover their phones in a tiny burqa

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