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# RIM hits back at Apple's 'reality distortion field'
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## Jim Balsillie, chief executive of Research in Motion, the Canadian company
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behind the BlackBerry, believes there is a market for smaller tablet
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computers, despite Apple's claims.
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![Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive of Blackberry-maker Research in
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Motion.][1]
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Jim Balsillie, chief executive at RIM, has accused Apple of only telling half
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the story, and criticised the company's 'reality distortion field' Photo:
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reuters
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By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 10:32AM BST 20 Oct 2010
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[Comments][2]
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During a quarterly earnings call on Monday, Steve Jobs, [**Apple**][3]'s chief
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executive, provoked the ire of rivals by claiming that 7in tablet computers
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were so small as to be unusable, and that the category would be "dead on
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arrival".
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It prompted Jim Balsillie, [**Research in Motion**][4]'s chief executive, to
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[**respond with a blog post**][5] in which he criticised Apple's "reality
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distortion field". He said that the iPad's lack of Flash support meant it
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didn't fulfil the needs of customers, and that Apple was only telling people
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"half the story".
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RIM has recently unveiled the PlayBook, it's answer to the iPad, which uses a
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7in display and supports Adobe Flash.
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"For those of us who live outside of Apple's distortion field, we known that
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7in tablets will actually be a big portion of the market, and we know that
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Adobe Flash support actually matters to customers who want a real web
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experience," wrote Balsillie.
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"We also know that while Apple's attempt to control the ecosystem and maintain
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a closed platform may be good for Apple, developers want more options and
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customers want to fully access the overwhelming majority of websites that use
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Flash.
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## Related Articles
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* [Steve Jobs attacks 'fragmented' Google Android][6]
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19 Oct 2010
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* [iPad is like having 'a tiger by the tail', says Jobs][7]
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19 Oct 2010
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* [Apple profits to double on iPad and iPhone 4][8]
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17 Oct 2010
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* [Apple expected to unveil smaller MacBook Air][9]
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20 Oct 2010
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* [Apple Mac OS through the ages][10]
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20 Oct 2010
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"We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by
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Apple. As usual, whether the subject is antennas, Flash or shipments, there is
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more to the story and sooner or later, even people inside the distortion field
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will begin to resent being told half a story."
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Balsillie also used the blog post to set the record straight regarding the
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number of devices Research in Motion had shipped in the most recent financial
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quarter.
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Jobs claimed that Apple had sold 14.1 million iPhones during that period,
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compared to the 12.1 million BlackBerry devices sold by RIM in their most
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recent quarter, ending in August.
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"RIM has achieved record shipments for five consecutive quarters and recently
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shared guidance of 13.8 to14.4 million BlackBerry smartphones for the current
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quarter," wrote Balsillie. "Apple's preference to compare its September-ending
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quarter with RIM's August-ending quarter doesn't tell the whole story because
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it doesn't take into account that industry demand in September is typically
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stronger than summer months, nor does it explain why Apple only shipped 8.4
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million devices in its prior quarter and whether Apple's Q4 results were
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padded by unfulfilled Q3 customer demand and channel orders."
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[**Steve Jobs**][11] singled out RIM in his conference call, stating that he
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didn't see RIM catching up with Apple in the "foreseeable future", and warned
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that the Canadian company must "move beyond its area of strength and comfort,
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in to the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform
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company".
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"I think it's going to be a challenge for them to create a competitive
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platform and to convince developers to create apps for a third software
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platform after iOS and Android," said Jobs. "RIM has a high mountain ahead of
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them to climb."
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