Research In Motion Ltd on
Wednesday unveiled a long-delayed line
of smartphones it hopes will return the
company to the top of a market it once
dominated, promising its BlackBerry 10
devices will wow consumers and
businesses alike when they hit store
shelves.
The company also announced that it was
changing its name to BlackBerry, hoping
for brighten its tarnished image as it
launches the BlackBerry 10.
Here is some early reaction to the launch:
CHARLES GOLVIN, WIRELESS ANALYST,
FORRESTER RESEARCH:
"The keyboard is really fantastic. ... It
learns about you ... it infers what might
be the mostly likely word that you might
use based on other things you've written
in the past."
"I think the device lives up to the hype. It
really is an outstanding device, both in
terms of industrial design and software,
it's really excellent. - unsure about this
wording, phone was uneven
"However, our data show that in the U.S.
only about two in five blackberry
customers say that their next phone will
be a Blackberry and this is a huge
problem. What this device has to do is
first change those people's minds, and
then they also have to convince all the
people that they lost to come back."
"I think that a realistic success here for
BlackBerry is staunching the bleeding, not
losing any more share and maybe clawing
back a couple of points of market share."
ERIC JACKSON, MANAGING PARTNER,
IRONFIRE CAPITAL LLC
"the real news was the shipping dates.
The biggest disappointment was the delay
in the US - that it will take so long before
the devices get going there."
"All in all I'm still confident that a lot of
the subscriber base are going to want the
upgrade to BB10. It's a very strong
improvement over what they currently
have. This is not going to cause mass
defections from iOS and Android, but it
doesn't have to be a success for RIM.
You've got to start somewhere."
PETER MISEK, ANALYST, JEFFERIES & CO
"This puts them back in the game."
"The big blow away factor for me is, you
have a larger screen and you can do
everything with one hand.
"As expected, as delivered, solid device
and presentation. I'm looking forward to
how consumers react, and how much buzz
it generates, and whether the enterprise
embraces it."
ADAM LEACH, PRINCIPLE ANALYST AT
OVUM
"I think the product looks good. I think
they tried hard to differentiate from
what's out there and I think they've
ended up delivering something which
looks distinctive in the market."
"They've done well to pitch it as they
haven't completely thrown out the many
things that were good about BlackBerry
and they've kind of done them well to
enhance those and then build a new user
experience around that."
"The other thing they've done is getting
the content and application deals in place,
and I think that was kind of critical thing
for them to get right."
"I think they can definitely carve out a
niche for themselves in the smartphone
market... There's room for more than
two players in that market."
"It's unlikely, from what we've seen
today, that they will go on to overturn
Android and its dominant market position,
or return to the 25-30 percent market
share that they had."
"Obviously the better thing would be for
it to be available everywhere right now,
but I think as long as we're talking now or
next week or the next couple of months,
that's okay."
SAL MASIONIS, STOCKBROKER, BRANT
SECURITIES
"I think that the marketing presentation
was not as good - you gotta have the
pizzazz. Really, you're buying a product --
it could be a game changer -- but people
have to get excited about it, to buy it, to
use it."
The scheduled U.S. launch in March is "a
little bit of a problem too. When you have
a marketing thing, you like to have it so
that people can buy it."
"It's a very uphill battle -- the fight. They
have to market it right. They have to
market it in such a way that it's a little bit
different than the iPhones and go for the
encryption part of it, because that's
where the corporates -- you have to go
for the corporates, that's where the
money is.
CAROLINA MILANESI, RESEARCH VP,
GARTNER
"The most exciting thing for me was the
lack of mention of email and the focus on
everything else that consumers want to
do with a device. This is the new
BlackBerry. The change in brand is also a
good move: one name, one brand, one
promise. Shopping time could have been
better, but I think that they are being
cautious on supply."
MARK SUE, ANALYST, RBC CAPITAL
MARKETS
"So far so good, the buzz seems mostly
positive. It's an ultra-competitive
industry, however, so it's going to be a
tough fight for BlackBerry, which has
limited resources. Beyond the form
factor, elegant software, RIM has to get
partners to help win this battle ...
BlackBerry needs carrier partners to
promote the new devices, apps partners
to build the ecosystem, and enterprises
to commit to the device. So it comes
down to how many "likes" BlackBerry can
get from its friends."
CARL HOWE, VICE-PRESIDENT FOR
CONSUMER RESEARCH GROUP, YANKEE
GROUP
"the device stacks up well against iPhone
and Android devices. I believe it will
quickly gain ground with BlackBerry lovers
and with business that have invested in
BES enterprise infrastructures. Because
BlackBerry controls its entire ecosystem
including software, hardware, and
services, it can move quicker than
Android and Windows can. We see
BlackBerry rapidly becoming a solid third
ecosystem behind Apple and Android."
IAN NAKAMOTO, DIRECTOR OF
RESEARCH, MACDOUGALL, MACDOUGALL
& MACTIER
ON STOCK PRICE:
"I think a lot of it was built into the
market and people are taking some
profits. They took some profits yesterday
and even Friday. ... It was such a well
advertised-launch date that people moved
the stock up and then they took profits
ahead of when it was going to be
revealed.
"For RIM, it's a normal stock market day.
It would have been an abnormal stock
market day if it had got cut in half or
something."
MICHAEL GARTENBERG, ANALYST,
GARTNER
"RIM has clearly reinvented itself with a
new set of devices and a platform. It's
definitely met the table stakes for many
users. The challenge will be to keep the
momentum going for developers and
apps and leveraging the Blackberry brand.
Blackberry delivered the first step but
this is a marathon not a sprint."
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
BlackBerry 10 launched: What the experts are saying
Microsoft launches new Office version
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp
launched new Office software for home
users on Tuesday, featuring constantly
updated, online access to documents
from all kinds of devices as the world's
largest software company attempts to
tailor its most profitable product to a
mobile generation.
The new Office suite of applications -
including desktop staples Outlook email,
Excel, Word and PowerPoint - is aimed at
home users rather than businesses, and is
designed to extend Microsoft's
domination of the workplace to the home
office and beat back growing competition
from Google Inc's free online apps.
"The notion of an always up-to-date
streaming version of Office comes directly
from how people are using devices
today," said Kurt DelBene, head of
Microsoft's Office unit, in a phone
interview. "You really want all your
content to roam with you. We see that as
an opportunity to deliver what customers
are asking for."
The version of the new software launched
on Tuesday, called Office 365 Home
Premium, is the first major overhaul of
Office since 2010. Big companies, which
generally buy Microsoft's software under
multi-year contracts, already got the
latest features of the new Office in
December.
Tuesday was the first look for individual
customers, and initial reactions were
positive at Microsoft's flagship Seattle
store.
"It looks badass. And that whole touch-
screen thing now," said Kouichi Armga, 25,
who works at Trader Joe's grocery store
and studies at the University of
Washington in Tacoma, after seeing the
new Office run on touch-screen hardware.
"It was actually very impressive," said
Jeremy Payne, 26, from Olympia,
Washington, who works in retail and is
studying public relations at the local
Evergreen State College. "The biggest
thing was the new PowerPoint. I was
really excited to see the new
PowerPoint."
Payne, an avowed Apple Inc enthusiast,
said the new Office was "really rad," but
it might be hard to drag Mac users away
from their Apple-centered world.
"They have their work cut out for them
pulling people from Apple," he said. "The
Apple system is so integrated to my way
of thought."
DOWNLOAD UPDATES
After downloading the basic programs
online, users can access the latest
versions of all Office applications from up
to five devices on a subscription basis for
$100 a year.
The software will be updated online,
marking a change from the past where
users had to wait years for upgrades to
installed software.
It is the latest step in what Chief
Executive Steve Ballmer called Microsoft's
"transformation to a devices and services
business," making the company more like
Apple.
The new Office largely adopts the look of
last year's Windows 8, with a cleaner,
more modern-looking design and includes
touch-screen capability.
The "ribbons" showing commands in Word
and Excel are mostly unchanged. For the
first time the package includes online
calling and video service Skype, which
Microsoft bought in 2011.
Users' work can be stored on their
devices but also in remote data centers -
known as the cloud - and the latest
version of a document can accessed from
any licensed device with a browser.
GOOGLE KILLER?
Two and a half years in the making, the
new Office is designed to extend
Microsoft's domination of the business
market and counter the growing
popularity of Google Apps, a collection of
online-only, Office-style applications
Google provides free for home users and
sells to businesses for $50 per user per
year.
Microsoft is hoping its move into online
services, alongside its new Surface
tablets, will push it into the forefront of
mobile computing, which has been led by
Google's Android software and Apple's
combination of slick hardware and apps.
"Microsoft Office remains the gold
standard for productivity applications,"
said Avi Greengart, research director at
Current Analysis. "It is bringing Office
fully into today's connected, cloud-based
environment. But it still has more work to
do to make it fully finger-friendly for use
on its own Windows tablets."
The new Office will run natively on
Microsoft's own Surface tablets - both the
'RT' and Pro versions running on ARM
Holdings and Intel Corp chips respectively
- but it will not run natively on Apple's
iPad, disappointing some iPad users who
are also Office fans.
"We have not said that we will do rich
client software on the iPad at this point,"
said DelBene, although he did not rule
out producing such software in the
future. "We've been very logical in our
approach. I'm pleased with the software
we have delivered for the iPad to date,"
he said.
Microsoft's SkyDrive online storage
system and its OneNote note-taking
software are available as iPad apps, and
iPad users can use limited Web versions
of some Office applications.
The iPad issue has been a long-time
quandary for Microsoft, which might gain
more mobile users by making Office
available on the iPad but would have to
give Apple a cut of its subscriptions.
Availability of Office on iPads would also
take away a major incentive to buying its
own competing Surface tablet.
Microsoft estimates that 1 billion people
worldwide use some part of Office and
the unit that produces Office is
Microsoft's most profitable, edging out
the flagship Windows division for the last
few years. It now accounts for more than
half of Microsoft's overall profit.
Sales dipped last quarter as consumers
held off in anticipation of the new Office,
but analysts expects sales to ramp up this
quarter.
"In the immediate next year or two, this
version of Office should help many of the
core small and midsize enterprise
customers stay with Office," said Al Hilwa
at tech research firm IDC. "The value
proposition for the consumer space has
always stemmed from synergies with the
enterprise. I don't think this is going to
change." (Additional reporting by Eric M.
Johnson. Editing by Matt Driskill and
Steve Orlofsky)
assange to run for Senate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run
for a Senate seat, a tweet from the
whistleblowing website says
Julian Assange will run for a Senate seat
in the 2013 federal election and his mum
reckons he'll be awesome.
Christine Assange confirmed her son's
candidacy on Wednesday after WikiLeaks
tweeted the news.
"He will be awesome," she told AAP.
"In the House of Representatives we get
to choose between US lackey party
number one and US lackey party number
two - between the major parties.
"So it will be great to `Assange" the
Senate for some Aussie oversight."
Queensland-born Assange, who founded
the secret-leaking website WikiLeaks,
announced his Senate ambition last
December from Ecuador's London
embassy.
He sought refuge there last June in a bid
to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Mr Assange fears if he goes to Sweden to
be questioned over rape allegations,
authorities will allow him to be extradited
to the US to be questioned over
WikiLeaks' release of thousands of US
diplomatic cables.
He said last year he would run as a Senate
candidate under a yet-to-be-formed
WikiLeaks party banner and was recruiting
others to stand with him.
The election will be held on September
14.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
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