RIM feed this and that is why they are the gold standard for email and almost every major company uses Blackberry. So cry all you want how email isn't relevant but it is reality my friend.

Who had ever taught you that email is workflow? A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, work of a simple or complex mechanism, work of a group of persons, work of an organization of staff, or machines. Workflow engines allow an organization to define standard and custom tasks encompassing reporting structure, escalation mechanism, and a host of facilities for automating business processes. It is exactly this RIM spawn culture of 'email IS business' believing in using email to conduct their businesses and in doing so fall into working in a disorganized, incomplete, incoherent and dangerous workstyle. Many many made decisions from using email as the vehicle for business communication and decision making. Frank, you had demonstrated this kind of mentality very well. RIM is built on this mentality and the customers of RIM inherited this mentality, the results of this email driven mentality can be instrumental in bringing about the destruction of our ecosystem. By the way, how can you relate a mobile phone's sales figure to how well the mobile phone can help your company in doing business? I hope you are not performing any function within your company beyond being the BES support. By the way, I worked inside RIM in one of my previous jobs. I know RIM better than you do.

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You my friend are wrong and obviously have never support mobility or worked in enterprise for a day in your life.

e-mail IS business. If any company stopped using email they would effectively have such a screeching stop to all workflow / effectivness it would take meetings upon meetings to figure out how to conduct business sans e-mail. I know this as I support an exchange infrastructure for a Fortune 100 company and a 2 min outage causes half the company to wig out.

If you followed mobility you would know that workflow effiency actually increases for mobile enabled employees. Down time is converted into being productive time.

Now your whole BES rant is just iPhone fanboy drivel. BES is rock solid and in our case supports over 3,000 Blackberries. The only time it's down is for weekly reboots or maintenance (on the server side or a BES update). Our uptime is 99.98 which includes a host of business applications that utilize BES to extend our enterprise. Try that with an iPhone.

BES intergration with Exchange is so far ahead of what iPhone can do it's actually funny. If I had time I'd write down the full list. iPhone with Exchange ActiveSync is what Blackberry / BES was in 2006! Funny that there are now two enterprise solutions (Sybase / Good) for iPhone that will require the SAME amount of work and STILL won't equal what BES provides enterprise.

Skype is coming to Blackberry in May and guess what they recently saw the launch of Shazam and Pandora. Expect more and more apps to cross platform as mobility is larger then iPhone.

In case you missed it RIM's recent quarter saw larger then expected growth all while demand for iPhone is tanking. Part of the worls its not even selling (India, Germany) so you better PRAY the new model is really something great as right now it is Apple looking short.

BTW the best selling smartphone the past 3 months? Blackberry curve.

I love my iPhone. Get over it.

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I do hate it. Here's why.

I don't play games on my phones. I never have. The screen is too small and the controls to tedious. Most apps are some form of game. (I concede that it was nice to be able to read the news on my phone, before the app crashed the phone and I had to go without for two days before I could *find* an apple store to take it to for repairs.)

It gets hideously overheated when you talk on it. When your ear breaks a sweat and the temperature is hovering around 30, your phone is too hot.

The earbuds look "cool," or so I've been told. Yet there isn't much of a way to clean them, there are no alternatives to them, and that's a bit like shoving a dirty q-tip into your ear. Also, after having had my phone for two years, the neat cushion (which is really there to keep the earbud from falling out), has completely deteriorated. No, I did not buy new headphones. I had 4 months to my contract when they started breaking down.

It likes to turn itself off after the update that allowed first generation iPhones to use the "cool new apps."

Note to the world: "Being able to shake your phone and see the icons wiggle is only amusing a couple of times. Beyond that, if you're still amused, allow me to suggest the old stand-by called an Idiot Card."

So, here I am, a two year vet of the iPhone experience. Between the technological problems, the lack of real world application beyond anything else offered, and the proprietary traits of all macs, I gave up the iPhone and bought myself a blackberry-sort. I still have a full keyboard, I can still see a real view of web pages. I did drop the new phone once already. It was nice not to have a burst of adrenaline the instant I felt it slip, or the panic-striken examination of a phone saved from impact mere inches from the floor.

Keep your iPhones, they're oversold to people who aren't willing to hear anything but about how "cool" the phone is. As for those who go on about the customer satisfaction rate, go read the iPhone help boards and tell me how satisfied people are trying to find their own fixes.