UAE and BlackBerry users remain loyal to device despite approaching deadline

By Edwin Kee on 10/05/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

UAE was pretty worried about the BlackBerry being a security threat to the country, and has since asked RIM to comply with regulations in an agreement with the government within a specific deadline. Well, the day is drawing nigh, but we still do not have any word from RIM’s side on whether they are anywhere near to a compromise. This has not unsettled BlackBerry users in the UAE though, since they have yet to switch over to other smartphones, as most of all the 500,000 subscribers are pretty optimistic for an agreed deal before services are disconnected. Talk about brand loyalty and having faith in a company!

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RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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