RIM CEO on BlackBerry Storm: "nobody gets it perfect out the door"
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 16th 2009 8:04AM
posted Apr 16th 2009 8:04AM
As the interview progressed, the co-CEO took the opportunity to snub Apple on its inability to get Push Email out early on, noting that BlackBerry OS has "constantly been underestimated" and was "designed to multitask from day one." He also stumbled all over himself when it came to speaking about the BlackBerry's web browser, stating that "by writing our browser in Java, that provides our CIOs and wireless managers the assurances they need, to allow the browser to access internal information at the same time it accesses external information." We've literally meditated on that for a solid half-hour, and we still have absolutely zero idea what it means in English. Nevertheless, the whole thing is a pretty great -- if not comical -- read, so give it a look and share your colorful opinions in comments below.
"GIMME YOUR CASH OR I'LL SHOOT!"
"by writing our browser in Java, that provides our CIOs and wireless managers the assurances they need, to allow the browser to access internal information at the same time it accesses external information."
"What?"
*runs while assailant is distracted*
He's hinting that people in charge of wireless technology in companys think that browsers shouldn't be allowed to access both internal and external sites because a malicious external site could pwn the browser and then do naughty things with data on the internal sites.
Supposedly Java is more secure by design and therefore less vulnerable to pwnage.
funny read to stumble on as i do my morning battery pull...
Darren: Just how many times must your gaping trap be bitch-slapped about anything-Blackberry for you to get it. You know nothing about it yet you speak utter uninformed bullshit about it without reservation. RIM should take out a restraining order on your hair-lipped ass.
I agree i am sure he is getting payed by apple... This whole website has been taking a bias view to the iphone .. forsaking all other phones out there. Every damn review has some new phone being compared to the iphone. If that isnt collusion with apple then i need to get my eyes checked .... over it Darren !!!! get that Iphone out of your ass you stupid poof !!!
Ok, first thing, the CEO of Rim has no idea what the word ease of use is ,so what he is saying that we should spend $250 on something that does not work !!!! We all understand bugs but the Storms BUGS are Crazy !!!! Nothing really works well on this phone , although the phone has great parts but no WiFi ,it just needs a good interface that's all ........the only reason it does not have Wifi is because Verizon did not want to give the users the option because they were afraid that people would buy the phone and not the service.It's sad ,i really wanted to love the Storm . Ease of use is what people want these days , has anyone ever heard of the iphone as an example of ease use , RIM had a chance to step into that realm, after all they already have email set.....But this is what happens to a company when they get BIG and only care about stock price !!
Word. Darren sounds like a total iphone douchebag to me. News flash, Blackberries are not aimed at the same 12 year old farting app audience as the jesus phone is.
Personally, I don't give a shit what this moron's peccadillos are, but the idiot -CLEARLY- knows not a fucking thing about Blackberry [except how to take a diahhretic shit on it].
Own it, bitch!
Whether there is any legitimacy to the java browser thing I don't know, but what I do know is that a web browser is essentially useless if it is terribly unresponsive and very slow to render and navigate web pages. The Verizon Curve 8830 I just got a while back has a horrid web browser, and Opera mini is required to even use the web on that phone. Additionally, I've looked at the Storm, and I find it completely pathetic that in 2009 RIM is creating slow, buggy ass phones without decent SIMD/graphics acceleration. The OS is a pain to use, and the web browser is just as worthless as the one on my Curve.
They should fire those idiots and get some new direction for the company. They need to actually put some resources into OS and software development, particularly with regards to writing OpenGL drivers and integrating low-level support for hardware graphics acceleration/DSP support. It's sad that while nearly all modern ARM chipsets have hardware graphics chips, DSPs, and SIMD units, RIM (and Nokia and others) are too damn cheap and lazy to actually have programmers integrate support for this hardware into the OS and SDK.
“Nobody gets it perfect out the door” is a rather flippant comment given that purchasers of this phone have to live with crashing and freezing on a daily basis. For the first time in my experience I have had to regularly roboot a cell phone. I would have hoped that a new or revised operating system would have appeared in April. There are angry and disappointed consumers who purchased the Storm, their needs should be addressed now, not sometime in the future. Rim has an excellent reputation but like all reputations it needs to be maintained.