Originally Posted by jfox67

I'm not sure why anyone would disagree with this sentiment or why so many on this thread are crying blasphemy just because someone suggests that there may be things RIM can learn from the iphone. RIM has the best push email solution and business device in the world currently....that isn't likely to change near term. However they are in the business of selling phones and it would be irresponsible of them to ignore a product that clearly has mass consumer appeal. Aren't all those 17 year olds going to be young business people in a few years?

None of this is meant to suggest that RIM needs to mimic the iphone. I'm only stating what I think should be obvious and what I'm sure RIM is already doing; evaluating competing products and models to see if there are useful aspects that they can utilize to improve their own devices or to improve their sales/market share. Perhaps there is nothing useful at all in the iphone for RIM or their vision of future product offerings......but isn't it foolish of us to think that they are not doing their due diligence on it and other competing products/technologies?