Comments on: RIM doing well at #2 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/31/rim-doing-well-at-2/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:10:24 -0500 hourly 1 By: Dark Cobra http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/31/rim-doing-well-at-2/comment-page-1/#comment-964603 Dark Cobra Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:45:24 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=62141#comment-964603 The executive isn't too far off the mark. We have been seeing for some time now a steady and even rapid "merging" of all these products. Computing power is indeed shrinking and while maybe not a full computer in the traditional sense these small pocket devices are enabling us to do a great deal of what computers have done. We are only in the infant stage but the merger of these devices is indeed moving us toward an all-in-one communication/computing device. The executive isn’t too far off the mark. We have been seeing for some time now a steady and even rapid “merging” of all these products. Computing power is indeed shrinking and while maybe not a full computer in the traditional sense these small pocket devices are enabling us to do a great deal of what computers have done. We are only in the infant stage but the merger of these devices is indeed moving us toward an all-in-one communication/computing device.

]]> By: marin http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/31/rim-doing-well-at-2/comment-page-1/#comment-964575 marin Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:02:35 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=62141#comment-964575 interesting article who knows where the future will bring to us, perhaps holographic touch sensitive keyboard? minority report here i come ... youclash.com interesting article who knows where the future will bring to us, perhaps holographic touch sensitive keyboard? minority report here i come … youclash.com

]]> By: Frank http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/31/rim-doing-well-at-2/comment-page-1/#comment-964522 Frank Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:15:10 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=62141#comment-964522 I say DUH! net books just like UMPC's companies trying to squeeze out some extra money before cell phones start allowing you to attach monitors and keyboards and mice, which I already have the keyboard and mouse part for my PPC-6700. I say DUH! net books just like UMPC’s companies trying to squeeze out some extra money before cell phones start allowing you to attach monitors and keyboards and mice, which I already have the keyboard and mouse part for my PPC-6700.

]]> By: Bob http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/31/rim-doing-well-at-2/comment-page-1/#comment-964519 Bob Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:10:30 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=62141#comment-964519 Similar comment from Steve Jobs - "As we look at the netbook category, that's a nascent category, as best as we can tell, not a lot of them getting sold. One of our entrants into that category, if you will, is the iPhone, for browsing the Internet and doing e-mail and all of the other things that a net book lets you do, and being connected via the cellular net wherever you are, an iPhone is a pretty good solution for that, and it fits in your pocket" Until we have a solid definition for either smartphone or netbook, its hard to be critical of these comments. Similar comment from Steve Jobs – “As we look at the netbook category, that’s a nascent category, as best as we can tell, not a lot of them getting sold. One of our entrants into that category, if you will,
is the iPhone, for browsing the Internet and doing e-mail and all of the other things that a net book lets you do, and being connected via the cellular net wherever you are, an iPhone is a pretty good solution for that, and it fits in your pocket”

Until we have a solid definition for either smartphone or netbook, its hard to be critical of these comments.

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