Josh Lowensohn for CNET:
The metric follows an extended outage of Research In Motion’s e-mail and BlackBerry messaging services, which left users unable to communicate with one another or send and receive e-mails globally. To placate angry users, RIM offered users $100 in free “premium” applications. The spike also coincided with the release of Apple’s new iPhone 4S.
And the bad news just keeps coming for RIM.
You know, I was having fun making fun of RIM. But I’m still a bit surprised. It’s obvious that they’re screwed; what I still can’t fully wrap my head around is exactly **how** screwed they really are.
RIM is one stubborn horse.
Is e-mail that just works a “premium application”?