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On today’s quarterly earnings conference call, which ended minutes ago, you can bet that the topic of Android support on the PlayBook came up more than once.  RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie shed some light on the decision, calling the PlayBook the “no compromise platform” which basically means that if you want Android apps, you have [...]

I really like the management at RIM.  They don’t go digging at other companies in public statements, but they’ll respond vigorously when somebody else starts making negative comments.  This week, on Apple’s quarterly results call, Apple CEO/Messiah Steve Jobs made some comments about how they outsold RIM last quarter and that customers don’t want 7″ [...]

When I was watching the live blog of today’s Apple press conference, I perked up when I read that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 had the same antenna “death grip” issues as the iPhone 4.  They have even launched http://www.apple.com/antenna/ that shows other smartphones that have the same issue.  I did a very informal study of [...]