RIM Gets Hit With Bad News On Three Fronts
If you didn’t think things could get worse with RIM, it has.
First, there’s a delay in for the update for the Blackberry Playbook:
PlayBook users will now have to wait until February for a piece of software that brings e-mail, calendar and other capabilities to the tablet. Since its launch in April, the PlayBook has been criticized for not coming equipped with these features. RIM had originally promised an update in the summer, then pushed that date back to the fall, and now into 2012.
And to make matters worse, when it does ship, there will be no BBM:
RIM announced the latest delay on its official blog Tuesday evening. When the update does come out, the company said, it will not include BlackBerry Messenger, RIM’s ultra-popular instant-messaging application.
Seeing as the device was basically crippled from the day it shipped, this delay isn’t going to help RIM sell any more of the tablets. Sadly for RIM, the bad news doesn’t end there. They’re also being sued:
Montreal-based law firm the Consumer Law Group Inc. says it has filed a nationwide class-action suit against the smartphone’s developer, Research In Motion.
The lawsuit needs to be certified by a judge as a class action before it can go forward.
The suit claims that RIM failed to directly compensate BlackBerry users, who pay monthly data fees to wireless carriers.
Consumer Law Group claims that RIM also failed to arrange for service providers like Rogers, Bell and Telus to provide refunds.
The suit covers the BlackBerry outage which occurred around the world from Oct. 11 to Oct. 14, affecting some user emails, BlackBerry messenger service and Internet.
I guess giving away free apps to users isn’t working. Here’s the last piece of bad news. Their stock tanked by 9% today. I guess that confirms the fact that the halcyon days are truly over for RIM.
Time to buy an iPhone and an iPad. Many already have.
October 27, 2011 at 8:27 am
There is no chance anyone wins anything with this lawsuit. If you set that precedent, every communication company in the world might as well shut down.