Poll: What would it take to get you to switch to Blackberry?

3 points by ekalvi 14 years ago | 5 comments

EDIT:

bartonfink has graciously reposted this as an actual poll here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780619

Please answer there instead.

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I don't have enough karma to submit a poll. However, I run a startup in Waterloo, and I am very curious to know what HN thinks on this topic because of the impact to my community. If you feel this is worthy of a true HN poll, please resubmit it on my behalf. I just want to see the responses, and don't care about karma.

a) I'm already a loyal BB user

b) It's practically impossible to get me to switch

c) If BB10 is awesome

d) If it ran Android

e) It it ran Windows

f) If it was way cheaper

bartonfink 14 years ago |

I posted this as an actual poll at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780619 if you care to track it there, ekalvi.

ekalvi 14 years ago | |

Thanks for the repost. I'm just wondering if there will be an implied apathetic no response. That would be the worst case scenario for RIM.

dirkdeman 14 years ago |

B! I don't see ho they could add anything relevant to phones/tablets at this point.

vyrotek 14 years ago |

(b)

RichardKim 14 years ago |

B) Never. It's a dead business.

1. as soon as I saw that ipads took off with old, rich people, I massively shorted RIMM stock. Why you might ask? Because at my old job where there's ton of 35-50 year old rich partners getting and loving IPADS what they would do is force their IT guys to enable apple products to be used and synched up. This was the start of all apple products entering corporate and now all of these people who have been waiting to switch already are or have.

2. I initially thought, "Oh I would switch if basic functions like google maps and browser worked like iphone's." But in reality, when app writers virtually stopped writing for blackberry and then all these other competitors started to get into the smart phones via android, I knew RIMM is going to be next kodak.

3) All of this leads to --> it's not cool to have a blackberry anymore. When people are willing to go out of their way and use an iphone even though they know typing sucks on the iphone (please don't argue with me - i used to type 1000 word emails while walking through TimeSquare traffic with my blackberry), you know the switching cost is SUPER HIGH.