RE: RE: AT&T about sold out in Raleigh and Charlot Just got back from a 4-day trip to Chicago (from TO) where I chatted up Blackberry whenever I could. I was in a couple of large gatherings where there was plenty of opportunity. most folks running a small business or working for a large company. I won't bore you with the details but I'll give one general comment which was repeated often and which isn't mentioned much...
People like Blackberry in general, but they are holding back from buying for one reason...the bad business experience they had with the days-long outage last year. One guy showed me his I-phone and said..."Look...I get 200 e-mails a day about business....Can you imagine what happens when I can''t get emails for days?"
Don't get me wrong...I'm long BB and today was a good day...but talking to these Americans was disconcerting. Blackberry needs to make sure that doesn't happen again. With these guys, that was the killer for BB in the US. Somehow they have to address that...or hope it fades away. It's the elephant in the minds of these people. If it happens again...they can forget about the US.
GLTA