[SkateNY]

The Blackberry has been around for quite some time and, as so many of you are willing to remind us, is ubiquotous in business. Fact is, they should have gotten it right, not half-right or half-ass. This is not a new product for them. No excuses please.

[SkateNY]

Your thought, such as it is, may have held some weight at the time you poste it. Now, three months later, with all those Stormers returning their dumb phones, it just sounds like more whining. Man up. Give him his props, or hide behind your anonymity.

[rgreen4]

Skate - 15 straight posts are enough. Everyone now knows what your opinion is and you have exceeded the level of reasonableness. You have come close to abuseiveness and the number of your posts has far exceeded anyone elses. Take a break and look back at the number of your posts and their content. Repeated posts in reply to the same comment are unnecessary.

[SkateNY]

Nice post. Your hammer hit your nail right on the head.

[SkateNY]

"To be fair, one does not have to read someone's entire body of work to decide if a single article is objective or not."

Okay, so where's the fair part? One also, to be fair, does not need to base his opinion on a single article in order to render a definitive judgment. Or did you not know that?

Sean Connery as James Bond? I don't know that you have the capacity to appreciate this, but the analogy you invoked defeats your argument.

[SkateNY]

Uhm...let's talk about "reasonableness" if that is in fact a word. I've read several posts here from a variety of people who, in three or four posts, expended several hundreds of letters more than I did in my fifteen (I'm taking you on your word that it's fifteen). Do these people need to be accountable for their ostensible abuse? Why is there no uproar from you when these people abuse this forum by penning novels at a time?

People scream and cry about such idyllic notions as truth, honesty, hypocrisy, the loss of virginity and the value of ice cream with cookie dough...but miss the perverbial forrest for the trees.

You don't like my posts? Don't read them, unless you require parental controls to stay away. Better yet, stop counting them. And, if you're into counting, do a word count for all the blowhards who clearly love the sight of their own overblown verbiage, yourself included.

Good luck with that.

[SurMac]

Speaking of overblown verbiage, can you please tell me what a 'perverbial forrest' is?

[SkateNY]

I've yet to meet a person in my lifetime who credits his or her succes in life to being an expert in spelling. A proverbial forest refers to those who are so mesmerized by trivia and minutiae that they miss the bigger picture.

Sound familiar?

[SkateNY]

My birthday was on Saturday. My girlfriend got me an iPod Touch.

I was a registered Apple developer for a few years from 1990 until 2002. I liked their products and helped other people learn to use them. The bigger deals during that time were the Power Books (now known as Mac Books) and, later on, the iMac. I never bought an iPod for myself. I was never fond of personal music devices. I live and work in New York City, and I much more prefer the sights and sounds in that environment to tuning out by listening to music on a Walkman, an MP3 player or anything else.

Here's the thing...you get one of these things in your hands, you'll never want to let it go. It's like an animal lover walking into a shelter and trying to leave without taking home a stray puppy. The thing just works, and it works beautifully.

If you don't like the iPod/iPhone, that's fine. Just don't trash people, the milions of people, who do. It's very easy to love.

[SkateNY]

I've been much more involved as a software developer than with hardware and, even with that, it was much more a hobby than an avocation. But one thing I can say...the iPod Touch is truly a work of art. A work of art combined with the best science of our time. And no, I don't have any shares in AAPL.

[ahumanbean]

Please stop the name calling and lets get to the facts.

1. The return rate is simply a rumor. Storms are very hard to come by and are being snatched up. That is a fact.

2. The iPhone is easy to love and hate. It is a great toy, but business users don't like toys. It is not a business class product. BB is.

3. Of course BB fans are lashing out because the critics don't have a clue of what they are talking about. I am tired of Apple insiders glowing about the Apple products that are Unix/Linux ripp offs and speaking badly about other products. Grow up.

[ahumanbean]

Since when did this article become about how great the iPhone/Touch products are? I am glad you like them. I will take my Creative MP3 player any day over a iPod of any type. Let's stick to the topic at hand.

[SkateNY]

1. If the Blackberry Storm return rate is only a rumor, why is it a rumor? Are you a conspircacy theorist? Is the fact that almost no one returns their iPhone also a rumor?

|RIMarkable found this 10 days ago on www.boygeniusreport.com |
Here's the skinny on this situation... We had heard various return rates on the Verizon BlackBerry Storm from three (actually four, but we'll discount the last one) extremely credible sources of ours. These ranged from 35-50% in some markets/regions.

techblips.dailyradar.com/story/verizon[ublackberry[/u]stormreturnrate/]

2. The iPhone is easy to love and hate. It is a great toy, but business users don't like toys. It is not a business class product. BB is.

Really? So all the business users who have an iPhone just wanted another toy? Who cares why they buy it or what they use it for. Fact is, they're buying it. You need to use Google a lot better than you have to date. Enterprise and small business are adopting the iPhone at a rate higher than they are moving to Windows Vista. Don't like it? Don't believe it? Do your own research. Though I doubt you have much capacity to see the facts as they are.

3. Of course BB fans are lashing out because the critics don't have a clue of what they are talking about. I am tired of Apple insiders glowing about the Apple products that are Unix/Linux ripp offs and speaking badly about other products. Grow up.

You're most clearly tired of being wrong. You clearly hate that there are people in the world who disagree with you. You clearly hate the fact that there are products available that you don't like and that others do like. You're clearly a child, going through your own personal terrible twos. Guess who needs to grow up?

[SkateNY]

Take what you want. It's comforting to know that such an obviously miserable person likes at least one thing in life.

[ahumanbean]

Please provide fact, not insults. You ask me to use google, but you are the one claiming unverifiable return rates, unverifiable adoption of iPhone for business, etc. It is simply not true.

[SkateNY]

It's not my responsibility to either wipe your ass or do you home work. Grow up.

[SkateNY]

The verification that you cry for is readily available. Obviously, you don't want. Go cry to someone else about your inability to take care of yourself.

If your cherished Blackberry were so good, I don't know why you'd be throwing a public tantrum over it in public.

Shame on you.

[SkateNY]

Oh-by-the-way...if you stop provoking insults from people, then people wouldn't insult you.

Ever hear of a thing called personal responsibility? You can Google that too. My guess? You won't even attempt it.

You insult everyone here with your deceptions, your lies and your stupidity. That's on you.