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I'm the only one seeing this as the announcement of RIMs downfall? One of the things that really held BBs still going was that it's in almost all corporate environments. But I think a lot of users will jump ship after this. At this point RIM is in serious problems.

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They've had outages before and it doesn't seem to change anyone's opinion of them. That keyboard is like crack for some people - no matter how bad the rest of the offering is, they keep coming back for that keyboard.

They got me with the 4 day battery and the sweet sensitive laser pointer. I do have an Android phone on the side though, but I just can't get myself to charge it everyday and when I think of it, it's dead.

As well as the corporate market, RIM also has, at least in the UK, a large teen market. They can't get enough of Blackberry Messenger. You hear it on every bus, tram and train: "What's your pin? I'll BB you..."

It's nowhere near as big as the corporate market but it's there.

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