I wasn't drunk. I'm still not drunk. My point is still valid. If you want new features, you ask for them and justify them. Then maybe the manufacturer, when they receive enough requests, will add a microwave or full support for IMAP. When they add the microwave or the IMAP support, they may have to put the cost up to provide this service.
My point is twofold:
One, if one customer of a company with over 10,000,000 customers makes a thinly veiled threat to take his business elsewhere because a product doesn't do what he wants it to do even though the manufacturer made no claims that it would perform this feature, that company aren't going to listen. Their observation will be that there's 9,999,999 who are happy with that feature being absent.
Two, If you want this feature then a concerted effort - yes, maybe even a petition - is going to have more effect than tirades of childish petulance. RIM have, for a long time, been going down the path of "we know what our users want" without actually asking them what they want. As someone else intimated, the email capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch for a non corporate user are better than the features of BIS. And the Storm is just a "me too" device. RIM needs to start listening to its users again - but the users need to say "It would be great if my BB could..." instead of "I'm getting an Nokia if you don't..."
Right. NOW I'm going to get drunk.
