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Seven inches is enough, RIM tells Jobs
News Limited ^ | October 20, 2010 | AFP

Posted on 10/20/2010 6:28:53 PM PDT by SubGeniusX

ANADA'S Research In Motion has fired back at Apple's Steve Jobs over his claims that the iPhone is outselling the Blackberry and that 7-inch tablet computers have no future.

"We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple," RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in a blog post responding to the comments made on Monday by Jobs.

Jobs, speaking to financial analysts during a conference call, dismissed 7-inch tablets as "tweeners" saying they were "too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad".

He suggested makers of 7-inch screens "include sandpaper so users can sand down their fingers" to be able to tap onscreen keys.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; blackberry; headlines; napl; rim; stevejobs
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To: Slings and Arrows

And everyone associated with the priesthood is relieved about the nuns, I’m sure. ;-P


61 posted on 10/21/2010 9:48:34 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Do you know what she’s called? Incontinentia...”


62 posted on 10/21/2010 9:49:59 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: JoeFromCA

Here in Florida we measure across, like inTexas


63 posted on 10/21/2010 9:51:34 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: andy58-in-nh

“...Buttocks.”


64 posted on 10/21/2010 9:55:32 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Darksheare

Makes me wonder what happened to my old Commodore-64.


65 posted on 10/21/2010 9:56:58 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TheOldLady

Poor things. ;^>


66 posted on 10/21/2010 9:58:59 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Life of Brian. Funniest "repressed laughter" scene ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8_jgiNqUc

67 posted on 10/21/2010 10:00:04 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: SubGeniusX

Richard Gere just called Barney Frank to make a donation.


68 posted on 10/21/2010 10:02:03 AM PDT by montyspython
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To: Slings and Arrows

I still have an original C128 laying around.
Worked last I knew.
Temple of Apshai Trilogy..
Never could find the Eye of Ra in the one level.


69 posted on 10/21/2010 10:02:31 AM PDT by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; TheOldLady
Either that, or he’s been living in a nunnery all his life.

Hey, that doesn't sound too bad... ;^)


70 posted on 10/21/2010 10:05:32 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: JoeFromCA

As the Italian guy used to say, “Yo...it ain’t big, but it’s thick”


71 posted on 10/21/2010 10:21:33 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL!

I suppose, you handsome devil, you.


72 posted on 10/21/2010 10:28:01 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: freedomlover; Slings and Arrows

LOL! Castle Anthrax was definitely the wrong nunnery for Galahad.

Slings would like it though.


73 posted on 10/21/2010 10:29:55 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Constitution Day

Yes, class, seven inches should be quite sufficient, as you will see . . . .

74 posted on 10/21/2010 12:59:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: JoeFromCA
It may be useful: How many cm in an inch
75 posted on 03/24/2019 8:15:24 AM PDT by elbirtus (cm convert)
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To: elbirtus

Bringing up an almost 9 year old thread ?
Really?


76 posted on 03/24/2019 8:19:41 AM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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