A BlackBerry Lover’s Response to Rick Schwartz’s BlackBerry Attack
Rick Schwartz is clearly one of the best domainer’s and online entrepreneurs in the industry, and no idiot would deny that. However, he recently posted a blog post shooting down the BlackBerry and promoting the iPhone which you can see by clicking here. And I have got to say, what a load of crap he’s dishing out.
With all respect to Rick, I am going to have to disagree with him and say that the BlackBerry is 1000x better as a whole considering not only the younger generation but the older generation as well.
I probably understand technology better than 75% of adults. I like to consider a high percentage of the older generation as technologically-challenged. If teenagers and young adults have trouble using the touch-screen technology on the iPhone, just imagine how many issues the older generation will have. About half of my friend’s have iPhones, and when I’m walking somewhere with them, they need to stop in order to send a text message or email. The touch-screen is the least efficient method to type up emails, texts and documents.
While the iPhone does have over 100,000 apps, are all of those apps truly necessary? BlackBerry App World allows you to select from 2,000 apps to download, all tested thoroughly. Congratulations Apple on having 100,000 apps, why don’t we have people waist more time in order to search through our apps, some of which are repetitive and nonfunctional.
Let’s not forget that in size the blackberry is much lighter and easier to carry around than the iPhone. Who wants to carry an overweight, oversized phone around? That’s a hassle!
Relating this back to the internet industry, BlackBerry is now offering a WordPress for BlackBerry app to make WordPress compatible with BlackBerries, which you can see by clicking here. Many in our industry say have a WordPress app for the iPhone makes the iPhone that much better, but BlackBerry has it too!
Overall, the efficiency of the BlackBerry compared to the iPhone doesn’t even compare. The BlackBerry is so much more efficient and better in the end-run. Before I end this, I would like to throw in a little twist. I happen to be an Apple lover. I invest heavily in Apple stock (and have made a lot from it) and think that Apple technology will dominate the world. I will also say that the idea of a phone made by Apple is great, but the BlackBerry as of right now beats out the iPhone any day. Also, Rick, if you’re reading this, I read your blog often, love it, just had to post my disagreement with this post. I’d like to get everyone’s comments though, so make sure to submit them below!
“While the iPhone does have over 100,000 apps, are all of those apps truly necessary?”
ABSOLUTELY!! The iFart is an application nobody should be without! Can your Blackberry Fart??
And do it 100 different ways!?
Try showing off that app at your next business meeting Rick
If I had a guess, a boss wouldn’t be pleased to say the least with that app.
I have a blackberry and am a crackberry addict…BUT..
although the blackberry messaging integration and keyboard do beat iphone hands down..however, I am going to trade the messaging efficiency for the internet and content efficiencies of the iphone.
iphone should really make a real keyboard..
so funny blackberry makes the storm..they’ve got it flipped, the iphone is a champ in spite of no keyboard, not because of it…just like youtube is a champ in spite of what was a bad domain name, not because of it.
After reading your post and Rick’s post I don’t know whether to get the iphone or blackberry yet. I’ll just stick to my regular cellphone until there’s a clear winner.
Had a Treo 755p and a Blackberry Curve… but the best phone I’ve ever used so far is the HTC Touch Pro 2. Blackberry can’t come close, and it’s pretty darn comparable to the iPhone except it’s geared more towards business users and less towards tweens… something you don’t have to be embarrassed to pull out when exchanging numbers with a business prospect as they say “oh, my 15 year old daughter has one of those”.
The absolute best feature of the TP2 is that it doesn’t require AT&T, the worlds worst 3G network. What good is a phone if it drops your calls? If you like all the pointless apps, get a real phone like the TP2 and buy an iPod Touch so you can make your fart noises.
640kb is enough for everyone!
Agree rick. As an iphone user who bought lots of different apps, the more I love iphone.
Forgive me, but anyone who can’t make use of a touch-screen is a moron. Touch screens have been around since the early 1980′s, when I was using them at the Clark County Library in Las Vegas to find books, versus the old card catalogue. The touch screen technology has been in use in the food-service industry for nearly a decade. They even make movies with it, such as Minority Report. So using a touch screen is very effective. Now, for the apps … greater choice means greater service potential. Let’s remove the extra zeroes and go to a common denominator: For every App the Blackberry has, iPhone has 50. 1 or 50? Wasting time versus Waisting time … iPhone has an automatic spell-check. i’M done.
I cried throughout yesterday when I read Ricks Blog… LOL, Why because after reading his blog, I was so convinced I needed to try the iphone but Verizon does not offer it.
While my blackberry is the best phone I have ever owned, I am yet to try the iphone. I am somewhat pleased by this response mainly because I needed some consulation. One thing I always tell my friends is that the president uses the 8830 Blackberry and so do I; hence this makes my phone presidential. I will keep my Blackberry until verizon carries the iphone and it comes with inbuilt FM radio also, or till the president changes phones which ever comes first.
By the way, this comment was not intended to make any educated point. It is just my way of letting you know that I read this post and it lifted my spirit.
iPhone is a major winner here. I couldn’t care less either way, but I quickly noticed that when I’d show my Blackberry friends a photo or something else on my iPhone (and please note that my intention has never been, “Hey, look at my iPhone!”) they usually start asking questions about the iPhone and then tell me they want to get one ASAP.
I don’t use apps, contact management, or any PDA type features. I just check my emails all the time, and the Blackberry is great for that. I only use the phone part for emergencies, so I like having an email device that is also a phone instead of a phone that is also an email device. My point is that although my usage is somewhat unique, everybody has different needs.
The rundown……
My take of course.
The IPhone is for the Trendy sheeple crowd, which is why it will end up near the top all the time. Non business people, the consumer! Teeny boppers, and older individuals that what to look cool and have the latest technology. Which is the mass, with mass dollars. In Mr. Schwartz’s eyes, numbers, mass people = mass dollars.
The Black Berry is for semi professionals that communicate quite a bit through email and text. They have been around for years, Bill Gates used to use one back in the 80′s. It has always been the fastest way to view emails on the go. The phone has gone mainstream now. Read the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
The touch pro 2 runs windows mobile. What all these sheeple have failed to realize is that windows mobile is the true business mans phone. Read, write and edit office documents, mobile internet, use the phone as a modem if needed(no wifi around) easily integrate thousands of contacts through outlook. Business people by the numbers make larger monetary transactions for themselves and decide on larger transactions for their companies. The Wing has been around for quite some time, and is still an expensive phone! It has just recently been replaced by the Tilt and other HTC phones like the TouchPro 2. Which is an awsome phone that will last another 5 years plus, just as the Wing did. The apps made for Windows mobile are practical and useful( most anyway)
Not all levels of society need the same features in a phone, which is better? Depends on what type of person you are.
Trendy/Consumer/Tech Junkie – Iphone, Android
Business – Blackberry
Executive – Windows Mobile, maybe Symbian
Internet Marketer – all three! need to keep up and stay in the know.
YEAH. Bro, I did the TREO thing, and suffered through it with several of my friends who wanted to throw their Blackberry’s into the river. I hated it when I had Adam Strong sitting in the back seat of my car after Domainfest 09 giving him a ride to the airport, and he’s telling ME where to go on the freeway in SOCAL! MY HOME TERRITORY!
How bad is it when you look over your shoulder at someone in the back seat who is loading up GPS mapping, directing your next exit, your next turn, while your own phone is still trying to log into “Sprint” whatever their site is?
Every person who has a Blackberry, that I’ve met, wants an iPhone. Period.
Don’t know the programming (and if you’re a PC wonk, everything you say is “aacchewwwwwwwb*lllsh*ttttt”) lol
I had to end my Sprint account to get the iPhone, It was a nightmare process because of the LONG LINES at the ATT store. This was only three months ago.
The iPhone enables me to communicate faster, type faster, play more games… errr… do more work… than that dang Palm TREO 700 ever allowed me to do. I’m still trying to get all my contact info off the TREO, which doesn’t work very well with a Mac. And I’m all Mac.
If you like your Blackberry, have fun with it! Just know that iPhone users are having WAY more fun with there phones than you are.