$100 for BlackBerry users
Research in Motion BlackBerry offers owners a gift of $ 100 to download applications, and a month of free technical support as an apology to its users for the problems with mobile services and their simple past week.
According to Associated Press, use your bonus to download applications can be in the mobile online – BlackBerry App World store before the end of this year (in the proposed list also includes products iSpeech Translator, Bejeweled and Texas Hold’em Poker 2). Free monthly support will affect only corporate clients.
Last Thursday one of the leaders of RIM Mike Lazaridis (Mike Lazaridis) issued a formal apology to the users of BlackBerry for the inconvenience, which led to the fact that many of them were left without access to databases, roaming and messaging service for several days. However, neither he nor anyone else from his company did not give specific reasons for outages, and said that such incidents will not recur.
Problems in the BlackBerry service began last Monday, and touched the people of Europe, Africa, Middle East and India. Two days later, disruptions in services in these regions BlackBerry «fell” in the U.S..
Even if we ignore the troubles of this kind, it is difficult to talk about the success RIM to compete with other manufacturers of smartphones, including Apple and the creators of Android – devices. The Canadian manufacturer has sold only 200,000 units PlayBook in the last quarter – is very small compared with 9.3 million units sold tablets iPad for the same period. The volume of monthly sales of smartphones BlackBerry – about 4 million units – in the case of the new Apple iPhone 4S “disagree” for only 72 hours.
Trying to stop their threatening fall and save the loss of the mobile division, the company RIM, reportedly is preparing to launch a new mobile operating system for devaysov based on BlackBerry, which will be “a leap forward in the mobile industry” – as argued recently, one of the leaders of Canada’s Jim Balsillie (Jim Balsillie).
RIM shares lost two-thirds of its value since the beginning of this year, and now valued at $ 22.48 apiece.
