RIM is a very secretive company when it comes to products and services. What they don't like is rumour and speculation, which is going to happen regardless. Apparently there is one of the RIM lawyers who found out about the picture and was a little upset, as he apparently is with all leaked pictures, even though it was a RIM employee that took the picture.

Anyhow, one of my friends at RIM sent me an email telling me that there legal dept. has been throwing my name around with regards to this picture and the information that I have made available. He made the strong suggestion to me that I remove the picture and even better remove things I have posted about the 8700.

I most likely could have left the stuff up, without too much fear of any sort of legal action as yes, there are numerous pictures floating around, and lots of information. My concern here is my relationship with RIM. I have a lot of people I know at RIM and the last thing I need to do is lose their confidence. I need to keep my relationship with RIM and the employees that I know at 100% which was the reason that I took down the stuff I had posted.

Call it what you will, bending over for the company, so on and so forth, but I really need to maintain good relations with RIM at this point in my life.

RIM hasn't officially launched the 8700. Once it's launched on say... Nov. 9th... officially... then it's a free for all, until then, I am kinda tongue tied...

Sorry guys. I wish I could have kept the stuff up, but I have to look out for #1 first.

cd.