I doubt that college students are going to be upset by an open source project 'Destroying Wealth'. Why would anyone other than RIM share holders care if RIM is loosing market share to Android?
As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
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Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#12A new form of Jingoism. This is not how you are going to succeed in the long term. Even if this is half serious, appealing to the protective, negative instincts of people suggests that RIM's future is bleaker than I thought it was
Edit: It's not clear to me though if RIM has anything to do with this.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#13... every 6 seconds, a BlackBerry device is thrown into the trash(hopefully a recycling bin) due to the evils of better devices like Android.
Devices like Android smartphones are creating a "better" model when it comes to user experience, apps, and price, yet how can we define "better"? Is it by a truly better experience? No. We like to define better as "stfu google, rim r0x0rs, tr0l0l0l0l0l! I'm not listening to what you're saying! Go away. RIM ruuuuulz". So next time people tell you that google is better, shove fingers in your ears and kick him in the nuts, because rim is just awesome.
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Edit: Seriously though? TomTom needs to fight google? Thats laughable. Why wouldent I want to buy a device that costs me extra ($150-400), is bulky, non-free map updates, and is known for selling user data to whoever offers money and a good enough usage case?
I don't think google is so bad.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#14Um...how is Android destroying businesses again?
And what should I do if I want to help? PS: I have an Android phone
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#15I smell the scent of Astroturf.... does my nose delude me?
Yep. Bad Astroturf at that.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#16The existence of something like this is an admission of defeat.
Not really. This appears to be a marketing tactic by a small startup trying to rile up all the Android fanboys and anti-Googlers in Waterloo; the hometown of RIM. So I wouldn't say that it has anything to do with RIM PR.
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#17Is this one of those "it doesn't have to make sense, it's just for publicity" things? Why are the uni students holding a rally? What connection do they have to"Paybuyer, LLC" which funds this Adwords competitor?
> Is this one of those "it doesn't have to make sense, it's just for publicity" things? Pretty much. > Why are the uni students holding a rally? What connection do they have to"Paybuyer, LLC" which funds this Adwords competitor? It's not a rally; they're holding up giant signs to face traffic. I think it was four people to a sign. (It didn't occur to me to take a picture until I was already far away.) This is just a…
This I gotta see. BRB.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#18I have long had a distrust for Google so I can understand the anti-Google sentiment. If we want a competitive battleground in the market, every player needs to be balanced. I was one of the earliest Android adopters but now I see that I must move on to one of the other underdogs (i.e. Nokia or HP).
> every player needs to be balanced
Correction: at least two players need to be balanced. iPhone, to my mind, provides just such a balance. Trying to boost every single also-ran product into a position of strategic equity is a waste of time. Right now, RIM is the poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma, and there's little anyone including RIM can do about it.
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#19I see nothing about "building a better machine" from a technical perspective on their site, which I'd expect given the byline.
I'm no fan of google's business model (advertising in the vast majority of cases == worthless noise), but at least they are using their position to further technology in good ways, which is more than I can see coming out of RIM.
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#20According to a whois the site is run by the owner of this site: http://www.paybuyer.com/
PayBuyer appears to be an ad network. In other words, the guy could care less about Android and is just mad that AdSense/AdWords dominates.
It's funny that supporters of RIM have taken it seriously without doing 30 seconds of research.