BlackBerry is ugly, old fashioned, insecure, and unreliable!

Whoooo … woo .. wait a second! Don’t get mad on me. This is not purely by me. This is what Tom Yager wrote in his post; Apple’s BlackBerry offensive. If you still angry at me, try to read this excerpt then:

Instead, Apple focused its battle with BlackBerry on two simple points: BlackBerry handsets are ugly, and BlackBerry’s network is old fashioned, insecure, and unreliable.

Hmm, let me see. This is the reason why:

1. BlackBerry is ugly

Perhaps this post from Phil Bogle can help Apple satirize Canadian.

Infuriating! After less than a month of owning my Blackberry Curve, the trackball stopped working.

But Tom refute it:

I’ll grant you, my BlackBerry 8820 is industrial in its styling. That was my choice. BlackBerry handsets are now in all sizes and colors, with the bonus that every model has matching messaging functionality. Consumers and fashion-conscious professionals have swarmed to Curve, BlackBerry’s jazzy QWERTY handset, and more compact phone-like devices that have the same standard BlackBerry messaging capabilities. No BlackBerry’s screen is as large as iPhone’s, but iPhone’s visible display space is cut considerably when the huge on-screen keyboard slides in. A BlackBerry squeezes more text onto its smaller screen, and both fonts and font sizes are adjustable to match your vision.

2. BlackBerry is old fashioned

It uses indirect delivery, All messages, regardless of their origin or destination, are routed through BlackBerry’s proprietary network.

3. Blackberry is inescure

Given that all messages are gathered on a central group of servers, ….. (Perhaps this is what Indian goverment thought too)

4. BlackBerry is unreliable

….. a single point of failure, where unencrypted messages sit naked and vulnerable to anyone roaming around the BlackBerry NOC.

What a battle. 3GWeek will keep an eye on this!

Source: Ahead of The Curve and Phil Bogle