RIM CEO Firers Back At Steve Jobs Tirade On Conference Call

Steve Jobs has certainly been in the spotlight over the last six months.
First during antenna gate Jobs insisted that his drop call issues where industry wide. He relented and give iPhone 4 owners a case.

Now Mr Jobs has decided that RIM, Android and others simply can't compete. We are not going to get into everything he said about the competition, but most of it was mean spirited and in many ways wrong.

The power Steve Jobs has is going to his head. If I where a stock holder Id be trying to find out if he gos to a shrink. Bet he does.

RIM and others have responded to Jobs with statements like the one RIM CEO Balsillie made below.

For those of us who live outside of Apple’s distortion field, we know that 7” tablets will actually be a big portion of the market and we know that Adobe Flash support actually matters to customers who want a real web experience. We also know that while Apple’s attempt to control the ecosystem and maintain a closed platform may be good for Apple, developers want more options and customers want to fully access the overwhelming majority of web sites that use Flash. We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple. And by the way, RIM has achieved record shipments for five consecutive quarters and recently shared guidance of 13.8 – 14.4 million BlackBerry smartphones for the current quarter. Apple’s preference to compare its September-ending quarter with RIM’s August-ending quarter doesn’t tell the whole story because it doesn’t take into account that industry demand in September is typically stronger than summer months, nor does it explain why Apple only shipped 8.4 million devices in its prior quarter and whether Apple’s Q4 results were padded by unfulfilled Q3 customer demand and channel orders. As usual, whether the subject is antennas, Flash or shipments, there is more to the story and sooner or later, even people inside the distortion field will begin to resent being told half a story.

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