Apple makes blackberry pie

According to this story from the International Herald Tribune, the iPhone is poised to seize the market share of the ubiquitous BlackBerry smartphone. "The vultures are circling," says Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, a research firm in Wayland, Massachusetts. "There is this sense that the RIM franchise is under assault." "Two independent developers writing software for coming RIM devices say that a touch-screen BlackBerry is in the works, and that RIM engineers privately refer to it as the A.K. — for Apple Killer." "Analysts say that RIM's greatest challenge in a consumer-driven smartphone industry may simply be creating devices that people admire and covet as much as the iPhone. Despite the faithfulness of its flock, RIM is not there yet. In a survey this year of 3,600 professionals by ChangeWave, a research company, 54 percent of BlackBerry users said they were very satisfied with their devices. Even so, the BlackBerry was a distant second in the survey: the comparable figure for the iPhone was 79 percent."

Rico says he wouldn't take a fucking BlackBerry as a gift...