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Originally Posted by OilKiller
Oh I know...I'm saying that the business world will definitely help RIM retain it's status as far as I'm concerned. I don't see them slipping to 4 or 5. No way. I see too many young kids still hitting the cell phone places and getting BB's because of BBM because all their friends talk that way. RIM knows this too and that is why they are currently advertising the hell out of BBM.
I was out at the bar the other night with some friends and some family and some of the family are in their 20's. They had some friends there too. Even the DJ came over to talk for a few minutes and everyone but ONE PERSON had a BB. And that one person is a friend of mine and is getting a Bold 9700 this month.
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I still maintain that a hardware-locked messaging platform like BBM will not ultimately succeed. It will become cross-platform or will decline in relevance & prominence as the world outside the walled garden of Blackberry continues to grow.
But we will have to agree to disagree on that one and see how it plays out.