Yesterday I was in a presentation with a number of companies including Telus and RIM. It was comical to watch Telus try to push its “services” to a group that was largely hostile to the company because of its lame handset selection and Internet service (blocked ports and all). It was interesting to see what Telus has planned for the next few years, especially as it seems that after 2012, there will be some manner of convergence with CDMA and GSM technologies as telecom enters 4G and a single point of contact for all the ways and means of communicating. RIM also showed some interesting tools that can already start to make this happen through the BlackBerry.
But what about the congrats? Well, I asked – what about Mac support? Will Mac users be left to questionable third party solutions that are not always functional, but sanctioned or unsanctioned third party solutions that are far more useful, but don’t support the full feature set. And what about at least being able to upgrade the software on the Mac? The answer, flat out… You’re stuck with crappy third party solutions.
I appreciate the frank response, but I can’t imagine that they can still ignore the Mac for much longer.
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