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With BB10, RIM Tries To Break Out of the 'Mobile Ecosystem' Model
Alt-kun writes "This past week has seen a couple of interesting articles about Research In Motion's strategic plans for BlackBerry 10. The Globe and Mail thinks that by pushing HTML5 for app development, they want to make mobile applications platform-neutral, which would let them sell devices purely on the strength of the hardware and OS, rather than on the ecosystem. And the Guelph Mercury notes that they also plan to push BB10 as the basis for a whole range of mobile and embedded devices, not just phones and tablets. One example shown off at the recent developer conference was a Porsche with a BlackBerry entertainment system."
Except the fact that I've had a blackberry and an iPhone, and yet the BB shits all over the iPhone in productivity, security, and phone functions and features. The dedicated back button and shortcut keys alone allow me to zip around so fast and efficiently its retarded. Once you get past playing the piano on the iPhone and playing a few games, when you need a *smartphone* to actually do anything, things get a little different.
That said though, I do think you are right. People don't care about having the best and most natural smartphone. All they care about is that they get to play "Punch the Monkey" and the $1000 "I am Rich" app from the "App Store".