How Wrong I Was...
Posted 01-27-2009 at 08:12 PM by archer6
To think that just five days ago I proclaimed my sixth Bold, as the one that would last quite some time, as it was performing nicely, and for a few weeks at that!
How quickly I forgot that this is not the RIM we knew and loved a year ago. Nor are these new BlackBerry models delivered in reliable working order, as they were last year.
For those of you that have been following each installment in the saga of "Archers Six BlackBerrys". Yes you read it right, it took six tries, five failed, grossly defective Bolds before getting one that was built as promised and actually functioned. It did not function well mind you, but it did boot up and run for at least 10 minutes before it would begin to act erratically and collapse into a mad circle of continuous resets. Had it not been important to me and a device I relied on, it would be funny to see it act like a cheap toy.
Fast forward to yesterday when I read here on PinStack that RIM's co founder a certain Mr Balsillie said we will just have to "Deal with the glitchy OS". Or in another words, we got flipped off by the big man himself. Being a person of ethics, morals, principals, and a professional businessman, I found this offensive and unacceptable. To think after all the money I have spent with RIM buying every BlackBerry sold in the last three years, that I would hear the big dog himself say "deal with it", referring to the problems present in the new Storm just did not set well with me. But who am I to be critical of the "Mr Perfect of the smartphone world?
After all, all day long today fellow BlackBerry users are defending him and sucking up the degradation he dealt. After all why not, RIM needs the money. Who cares about themselves. It's all about having cool things.
Conversely I took it as a wonderful opportunity to turn adversity around to my advantage. I simply removed the sim from my time wasting, glitchy Bold and chucked it. Kind of fun really. By days end I had tossed the BB and was ready for a new day of smartphone fun with my new Android powered smartphone.
Now 24 hours later I'm ahead of schedule due to the time savings of using a phone that I did not have to repair during the course of the day. What a novel concept...
How quickly I forgot that this is not the RIM we knew and loved a year ago. Nor are these new BlackBerry models delivered in reliable working order, as they were last year.
For those of you that have been following each installment in the saga of "Archers Six BlackBerrys". Yes you read it right, it took six tries, five failed, grossly defective Bolds before getting one that was built as promised and actually functioned. It did not function well mind you, but it did boot up and run for at least 10 minutes before it would begin to act erratically and collapse into a mad circle of continuous resets. Had it not been important to me and a device I relied on, it would be funny to see it act like a cheap toy.
Fast forward to yesterday when I read here on PinStack that RIM's co founder a certain Mr Balsillie said we will just have to "Deal with the glitchy OS". Or in another words, we got flipped off by the big man himself. Being a person of ethics, morals, principals, and a professional businessman, I found this offensive and unacceptable. To think after all the money I have spent with RIM buying every BlackBerry sold in the last three years, that I would hear the big dog himself say "deal with it", referring to the problems present in the new Storm just did not set well with me. But who am I to be critical of the "Mr Perfect of the smartphone world?
After all, all day long today fellow BlackBerry users are defending him and sucking up the degradation he dealt. After all why not, RIM needs the money. Who cares about themselves. It's all about having cool things.
Conversely I took it as a wonderful opportunity to turn adversity around to my advantage. I simply removed the sim from my time wasting, glitchy Bold and chucked it. Kind of fun really. By days end I had tossed the BB and was ready for a new day of smartphone fun with my new Android powered smartphone.
Now 24 hours later I'm ahead of schedule due to the time savings of using a phone that I did not have to repair during the course of the day. What a novel concept...
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