I didn’t expect the Blackberry Storm to take such a beating. I even initially thought the clicky screen was a clever idea, but it solves the wrong problem. The big advantage of a physical keyboard isn’t the tactile feedback, it’s the pre-feedback — feeling the damned button you’re about to depress.
The question I really want to ask Blackberry fans (and iPhone skeptics) is: if you believe that RIM (or any other competitor short of Microsoft) is going to catch up with the iPhone, exactly where is their platform supposed to come from? In a sense, the iPhone OS has been in development for over ten years (twenty if you count NeXT). “Making Blackberry/Palm/whatever better” isn’t just a hardware problem.
