Wednesday, March 2, 2011

RIM Thought Apple Was Lying About the Whole iPhone Thing

iPad2's announcement reminds me of just how far behind RIM was in terms of engineering.  Link, with an excerpt from 2007 below:

The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage, and to have made outlandish claims about its features. Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet. 
The iPhone "couldn't do what [Apple was] demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life," Shacknews poster Kentor heard from his former colleagues of the time.

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