The media has not been kind to RIM in reviews about Blackberry OS6 so far. See e.g. Mobilecrunch and Moconews. So is Blackberry OS6 good enough or not for RIM to compete with Android, iPhone, WebOS, Windows Mobile 7 and other smartphone OS?
Blackberry has taken the UK teens market by storm thanks to Blackberry Messenger, the QWERTY keyboard and a great camera. Is it possible that not everyone wants a touch screen phone with a big screen? Having had the opportunity to use the iPhone 3GS, Google Nexus One and various other Android phones for a fairly long period of time I must say that the Blackberry Bold (9700) is the only phone I want to use every day for calling, texting, e-mailing and social networks. The touch screen phones are great for games and rich media but not necessarily for the basic communication and organisation features. Almost everyone with both a Blackberry and iPhone or Android phone will admit this.
Having said this Golden Gekko relies on iPhone, Android and other great multimedia OS for mobile app development revenues and have no intentions of defending RIM for providing a poor SDK for apps. With OS6 we hope that RIM will catch up in terms of providing a similar app experience to iPhone and Android and we think that this is actually good enough. What do you think?
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