Review � MobileCrunch: BlackBerry is Over and Done!

John Biggs of MobileCrunch has written an doomsday article about how BlackBerry�s days are numbered and will go the way of other mobile platforms that were bought by a bigger company, exist independently for a while, and then get subsumed. The author has listed a number of reasons why it�s over and done for BlackBerry.

�BlackBerries aren�t status symbols,� proclaims Biggs. �They�re the real-world equivalent of the thick, heavy IT-department-assigned business laptop. They�re staid, boring, and unwanted but people are used to them� but that�s about it.�

It won�t be too long, according to him, that people who are originally into BB would begin to support �more popular devices� such as iOS and Android phones. For Biggs, competitors of BB have become stronger and faster that its manufacturer, Research In Motion, has a hard time keeping up. He even includes BlackBerry�s tablet, the PlayBook, as part of its demise because the tablet lacked native e-mail, a feature that is expected on almost every BB device.

Wrapping up, the author describes RIM as a �slave to its own success.�

�They can�t sell anything other than a keyboard-candybar phone in an era where the keyboard is increasingly irrelevant or hidden away until needed� It�s over and now we�re just waiting for the buy-out and inevitable disappearance of one of the greatest mobile companies in modern memory.�

What do you think about BlackBerry�s future? Do you think it is too soon to declare its downfall?

Source: MobileCrunch