Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie may still be smarting from the fact that Apple passed it in
smartphone market share last quarter. Steve Jobs made a point to rub it in during Apple's most recent
earnings conference call: "?We?ve now past RIM, and I don?t see them catching up to us in the near future.? Asked what he would say to Jobs if he were present today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Balsillie shot back: "You finally showed up." The implication being that RIM practically invented the smartphone category and is not going anywhere. Balsillie went on to contrast the Blackberry approach to Apple's when it comes to web apps. There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. "You don?t need an app for the Web," he says, and that is equally true for the mobile Web.
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