Comments on: What’s Old is New: Microsoft Phones

By: Rick Mahn

Rick Mahn — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:43:00 +0000

Kent, it is amazing that we don’t have better integration between Outlook and office phone systems. I also thought long ago that the systems to do this would be inexpensive and easy to configure by now.Oh well, I’ll keep moving forward with mobile phone technology – at least it continues to innovate.

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:47:00 +0000

I actually said “Blackberries, etc.”While most of my social friends do not have Blackberries, almost all of them have cell phones that can pull their email.Now I’m off to play polo on my yacht at the country club. Not.

By: Hal O'Brien

Hal O'Brien — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:48:00 +0000

"Everyone and their cat have Blackberries, etc. and can get their mail anywhere."According to RIM's annual report (note: Acrobat file), there are about 5 million BlackBerry subscribers. Globally.I'm sure a great many of the people you socialize and work with have such devices. But that's also a self-selecting sample.It sounds like you've been in the bubble so long, you don't realize it's a bubble.It may well be that Microsoft fails in this venture. They tend to, more often than not. (Heck, they can't even release their current OS, because one of their OEM customers is forcing them to wait until the OEM in question is finished testing. So much for "monopoly power.")But to think that BlackBerry is so pervasive to be uncatchable by anyone is just... wow. A remarkably privileged point of view.