Comment on Other Blogs – All about COMM 101

RIM Slowly Slipping through the Ranks (Comment on Joseph’s blog post)

In this post, Joseph talked about how RIM has fallen in the ranks from 56th to 93rd. This is due to Blackberry’s lack of innovation and creativity compared to the Apple and Android phones. Because of these competitors, Blackberry must come up with a new way to present their phones and show business professionals why they should choose Blackberry again. Joseph also raises the question of how RIM can improve their brand again and create a new POD (BBM vs iMessage).

I agree with Joseph that the Blackberry in comparison to Apple and Android phones lack in the specialness and differentiation. However, I feel that this also raises another question – previously known as the “business” phone, Blackberrys had the main concept of what businessmen required in order to properly communicate during the day; does that mean that all people using Apples and Androids are business professionals and need such intelligent devices throughout the day. Could RIM try to focus more on the business aspect of the functionality of the phones instead and create their POD that way?

(Source: Joseph’s Blog Post, Blackberry IMG)

Destruction of Diversity and Businesses (Comment on Andrew Huang’s post)

Andrew chose the article “Vancouver pursues regional ban on Shark Fins”. This post talks about how Vancouver is pushing Burnaby and Richmond to altogether ban selling shark fin. The article states that this will be a major threat to multiculturalism that has been established for so many years in Canada. Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang proposes an alternative way for restaurants to serve delicacy so to not harm restaurants’ businesses.

I agree with Andrew that this ban will threaten many Chinese restaurant’s businesses. Shark fin is a very popular cuisine among Chinese people and if this threat persists, there may be a possibility of a black market emerging. This would not be the preferred outcome for the government. However, I do not agree with the article that this will disrupt our multiculturalist state. This will merely affect what a minimal amount of Chinese people eat for dinner. Most people rarely eat this unless it is a very special occasion like wedding. This will not affect the multiculturalism, just merely affect restaurant businesses and their profits from these expensive shark fins.

(Source: Shark Fin Soup, Andrew’s Post)