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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (45982)	12/18/2009 8:05:04 PM
From: Johnny Canuck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71154

The phone actually cost the carrier $300 to $400 dollars depending on the model. Consumers have no idea what they really cost. The cellphone industry is like the printer industry. They give away the technology at below cost and get you on the re-usables. They is no way a printer cartridge is $40. The ink cost pennies. Similarly on the carriers network. SMS care actually transfer in the unused control code packets. The cost if virtually free but they may charge you 50 cent a message without a plan.

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (45982)	12/20/2009 6:45:47 AM
From: Johnny Canuck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71154

Do you classify yourself as an early adopter, mid-cycle adopter or a late cycle adopter of technology. If you are a late cycle adopter and a consumer versus a corporate client, the exponential growth for RIMM might be almost over. From a corporate sense anyone that needs one has gotten one in most established western economic markets. In fact some people lost their Blackberry priviledges during the current downturn. China and new green field markets like consumers users are their next growth areas and I am not convinced that the consumer markets will not saturate quickly because of the carriers unwillingness to lower data rates. People forget that RIMM really makes it money on the royalty for each email that gets sent or received on the Blackberry exchange servers. The handset sales were really just to drive subscribers when the handset manufacturers and carrier did not move fast enough to promote adoption by potential clients.