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RIM co-CEO sees no threat from iPhone | MacMinute News:

A story out of Reuters today reports that Research In Motion’s co-CEO said in an interview that Apple’s iPhone doesn’t pose any threat to the company’s consumer-geared BlackBerry Pearl.

This also in: Mercedes isn’t threatened by Porsche’s new Cayman.

Most of the time, these two devices couldn’t be more different. They are geared for completely different markets.

But I think it is very naive to think that the iPhone will not cannibalize the entire market that wants a media-rich device that is easy to use and elegant. The BlackBerry consumer line lacks the cachet of the iPhone, and always will without significant re-investment in a consumer line of devices, which RIM will not do or seems wisely unwilling to do. The Pearl line is supposed to be individual-friendly, and provide solid messaging for the masses. But their software is clumsy, their user interface passé and dull, or completely confusing depending on who you ask, and the complete lack of real media capabilities on the entire BlackBerry line will hamstring them in the consumer market.

To be more clear—I feel strongly that RIM knows full well that they cannot continue to make handsets forever. They know that need to get out of the hardware business, and focus instead of infrastructure and software to move email the way they do.

Every other competitor they have is going this route, and they are going to start winning with more variety in devices. If RIM plays this right, they can continue to dominate the mobile email space without lifting a single handset above their heads.

So I recently had an nVidia 7800 GS AGP get flashed up to Mac firmware from one of the guys over at Strangedogs and it worked great for say, a month.

But over the last couple of days it has been remarkably skittish about working and not freaking out. I’ll be playing WoW and the audio will stutter and the machine will hard-freeze and release and hard-freeze again. It is very distressing.

So now I’m back to a 5200 FX card and I’m thinking about either getting a 6800 DDL, a big iMac, or a MacPro. The video card selection for AGP G5s is just far too ridiculous and slim. And nobody, NOBODY has an ATI X800 Mac for sale! Everyone is sold out and inventory seems light. Great.

I am hopeful that I can have my 7800 GS fixed. I really like that card and while it is pretty clearly better than my dual G5 2.0GHz workstation can use, it is nice not having the video be the bottleneck. I have high hopes that Leopard will bring mult-threaded GL to the ppc platform. It has had an amazing effect on my MacBook with the slow integrated intel video.

My thread on the We Know forums about my card and the the benefits it has given. I’m sad that I may have to ditch it.

Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/ \
HPServicesInterface.framework/Versions/B/HPServicesInterface

Dear HP,

Know what that library error occurs? Preventing me from scanning?

Because you linked your software against libraries that don’t exist in your software.

Way to go.

The fix is to install the old version on the CD that comes bundled with your new HP printer. The latest one is fried as of this date. Version 7.9.1 is broken. Don’t get it. I sent the errors and library issues and told them how to fix it. I haven’t gotten a response.

OmniPlan Coming Soon!:

This promises to be a very interesting application.

When I replaced the dual G4 with a 2×2Ghz G5 I was a little apprehensive about giving up the internal bays that I had grown to rely on.

I didn’t want to merely start slamming a bunch of firewire boxes across my desk, so I looked around at some of the options out there and I settled in on the G5 Jive from Sonnet.

I bought mine from MacSales, so I’m giving them a link. They were easy to buy from, shipped right away and everything was as expected, which is typically the way they deliver—they’re great.

So the G5 Jive lets you put another 3 SATA disks into the front of the G5 right behind the front vent. The disks seem to get plenty of air and the CPUs don’t seem to run any hotter for having them in there. My G5 runs 24×7 and does duty as household file server, media warehouse, and where I play World of Warcraft when I’m not up to my eyeballs in Xterms working on other things.

This gizmo is well-priced and the fit and finish were perfect. It looks and feels factory, which is nice. No need to tear out your optical drive with this add-on, so you lose nothing by going this route.

Easily the best way to remedy the fact that Apple doesn’t give you a method to put more than two fixed disks in a G5, which is idiotic since the machine is so damned big.