Blackberry services

[Recursion]

It's fine for corporate use but exactly as I said in my above posts it's stupid to do to consumers.

The phone is for Business people, it's the consumer's fault for buying a business phone.

[AgnesIO]

The phone is for Business people, it's the consumer's fault for buying a business phone.

It would be foolish to think Blackberry are not trying to get as many teenagers as they can nowadays.. BBM is not really a business thing..

[HotelUser]

It would be foolish to think Blackberry are not trying to get as many teenagers as they can nowadays.. BBM is not really a business thing..

BBM is not a reason you should buy a blackberry.

http://kik.com

[Brockam]

Respect to RIM for the video.

Agreed.

[AgnesIO]

BBM is not a reason you should buy a blackberry.

http://kik.com

I am perfectly aware of kik, and am also perfectly aware it SHOULDN'T be a reason to buy a Blackberry.

But shall we take a quick step in to reality? Millions of people have brought Blackberrys for BBM, with the vast majority of my friends having the crap phones.

[Slowpoke]

Apparently I'll be getting $100 worth of premium apps as compensation, happy days

[Metric1]

BBM is not a reason you should buy a blackberry.

http://kik.com

brutal app, this was popular for like a week, it got overloaded and crashed.. people never went back.

Anyway, I had a midterm that day.. no phone meant lots of study time - couldn't have happened on a better day!

[Casio]

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has already apologized for last week's widespread BlackBerry outage, but apparently, that wasn't enough. Today, the manufacturer announced that it's offering customers a full slate of "premium apps" for free, in the hopes of earning back some of the goodwill it lost following that mysterious blackout. In a statement, the company said the gesture is "an expression of appreciation" for the patience that many BlackBerry users demonstrated during the incident, with Lazaridis adding that his company remains "committed to providing the high standard of reliability" that consumers have come to expect. For now, the company's offering a total of 12 apps (collectively valued at around $100), including SIMS 3, iSpeech Translator Pro and Shazam Encore among others, though more will be added at a later date. The offer kicks off on Wednesday and will last for a month, so head past the break to see which goodies are up for grabs.

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http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/17/r...kberry-outage/

[GoldenMerc]

That's pretty good to be fair.

[GommeInc]

Possibly the only phone company to offer such substantial compensation when the fault is entirely with the phone company and not the end-user. Good on them But I can't help but think the damage is done, and the whole franchise is dying anyway.