This article seems to suggest that BB innovates and will wait, while others copy & march ahead
RIM Innovates and Then Waits as Apple Moves Ahead - NYTimes.com
Among the features of the new
Apple iPhone 5 are a more movie-friendly display format, two tiny grills on the bottom that shield
noise-canceling microphones, a more powerful processor and a slim, all-black case.
All of those features made another debut last May when Research in Motion gave software developers prototypes of the BlackBerry 10 handsets, the model that may well decide that ailing brand’s fate.
The trouble for RIM, of course, is that the iPhone 5 will be in stores Sept. 21 while the much delayed BlackBerry 10 still doesn’t have an official arrival date. RIM promised it for early next year.
By then, Apple is unlikely to be the only competitor to spoil some of RIM’s BlackBerry 10 surprises.
Windows Phone 8, which may upstage some of the new BlackBerry’s software features, is expected to be out shortly. New handsets that take advantage of some of Windows 8’s features will most likely appear in November. And the world of phones using
Google’s
Android operating system marches relentlessly on.