With a giant lead, RIM could have become Apple in terms of ongoing revenue, market capitalization, profits, something the iOS App Store created by moving billions of dollars of polished cheap apps to iPhones starting in 2007, but really not until 2009 when more of the bugs were worked out with AT&T wireless 3G/ 4G LTE early on mobile broadband to enable later iteration of iPhones to work well on the go, with iMessages almost replacing standard text messaging between iPhone iOS users, works in MacOS & and iPads too, so you log in once as an apple user and you can get all your messages of either kind on your MacBook, iMac, iPad, iPhone & incredibly even on Apple Watches since Series 1 & they are up to Series 9 or have Pro versions too :)
I have long nagged about Apple taking away the 1/8 inch stereo headphone jack on iPhone, for switching from lightning to USB-C like everything else, though that actually makes sense, then for the longest time sealing in the first part to fail so that users could not easily change the battery in their Apple products after a few years of use when the failing lithium cobalt carbon polymer battery held down with adhesive polymer strips inside the CNC aluminum body of iPhone.
Or having to apply liberal amounts of isopropyl alcohol to MacBooks to soften the battery adhesive of the old weak battery to remove it without causing it to catch on fire, something that many repair techs have experience with punctured LiPO batteries that vent with flame & emit huge amounts of nasty toxic smelly smoke from the burning cobalt, carbon, flammable electrolyte, think Boeing 787 Battery Fires on a small scale, but many also catch fire will overcharged plugged into the charger all night, since charging from 90% to 100% accelerated battery damage loss of capacity 10X faster, so where in the setting can you set the charge to top to 80% max for long life battery preservation?
No they don't offer that feature in settings, no one does, not on smartphones, because the number one reason people buy a new phone is because their old one has weak battery & diminished battery life per charge cycle. Many hobbyist who use LIPO batteries in wireless model aircraft know that LIPO prone to swelling & catching fire eventually. Essentially common rechargeable lithium ion batteries have to employ 6 different technologies to reduce risk of thermal runaway when the dendrites that form from side reactions end up perforating the electrode seperator film & shorting the anode & cathode, which creates heat like a smoke vaporizer for vape fluid, but the fluid vaporizing here as flammable electrolyte, which causes pressure inside the lithium polymer battery to increasing, causing the mylar film inclosure to swell or puff up.
Ask yourself, how can you change the batteries in Apple Air Pods in 3-5 years when the original batteries no longer hold a charge for very long & run out of power much more quickly then when they were new. Oh, you have to carefully cut the AirPod open with a heated ultrasonic knife in an argon glove box in a painstaking expensive producer that costs more than replacing the Air Pods with new ones, so almost no one does this. They are made in Hong Kong by a Hearing Air manufacturer & sonic welded closed hermetically sealed, so a total pain in the ass to open without breaking everything inside. Well designed Apple, that is not device repair friendly AirPods by anyones definition. Surely Apple is not alone in sealing wireless earbuds closed to keep moisture out, earwax too :)
Nearly all makers of wireless earbuds sonic weld them closed, since that makes them smaller & lower mass or lighter than a similar design made of CNC machined or 3D printed metal finish machined & screwed together with gaskets for good moisture sealing, though the high end watch makers do so, so I know Apple could make AirPods with changeable batteries, but obviously its more profitable to sell new AirPods & have the old ones become endless e-waste which is steel not feasible to recycle because of how all those different materials are mixed so tightly in something like an AirPod. Perhaps if Gold & Copper & Magnet Prices rise high enough, it would make teardown scrap recycling old AirPods more feasible or profitable for some third party or God Forbid that Apple creates its own e-waste mineral non-ferris metal & rare earth element magnet recovery robotic facility mass reduce AirPods into their constituent materials without catching fire.
How could BlackBerry & RIM with a 1997 head start in mobile electronics fall behind Apple & Samsung in the Smartphone market, when in many ways Blackberry by RIM was the first big mover & sales leader up until 2006. They sat on their hands selling the same sorts of hardware while Apple & Samsung & Google Android were in a fierce global competition to innovate mobile software, apps, & hardware, with endless new innovation & iterative improvements in every iPhone launched with magic technology as they call it, funny or not, it is usually well polishing in iPhones & their App Store much more secure then the Android App Store which is like the Wild West with spyware & sketch apps of all kinds by comparison. Android is security loose & Apple is obsessed with protecting user privacy, almost complete opposites. I am almost entirely Apple hardware for compute at home & on the go.
The ringconn smart-ring & my watch collection are not Apple, though I rock a Series 8 apply watch right wrist as a super overkill fitness tracker + messages & phone calls like Dick Tracy of the aforementioned science fiction cartoon. I also play STEAM on an ASUS Windows gaming laptop for CS2 lately in fits & bursts randomly, 15-30 minutes at a time, though sometimes for a few hours to blow off steam :) RIM & Blackberry are still around in 2025, just not like they were before. It was regular people, non-business users, for casual and pleasure playing games on their iPhones that Apps on the iOS App Store sell by the billion & usually only a dollar or two, often free versions are available with ads, or similar.
Apple Car Play means I can jack my iPhone into the dash & my car stereo takes or makes phone calls, touch free, iPhone in a cubby, I can keep my eyes on the road, driving a car highly visual, so voice based phone calls, I can think enough to do both at the same time, I focused to turning my brain on more, so have a cup of coffee & work out doing exercises that make you hot & sweaty a couple times per week to improve cerebral blood flow & your metabolism & metabolic health so you can think faster also.
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