RIM extending tools to other smartphone platforms and gconsiders management tools for iPhones and Android……..
Vice president of RIM Pete Devenyi said in an interview following a Boston business event. He hinted that the company’s remote administration might extend not just to other phones but to those not using BlackBerry services.BlackBerry Connect could already manage some non-RIM devices, but only if they communicated in a method RIM’s software could understand. The new approach could let the single platform manage a competing platform even if it didn’t use any BlackBerry-related features.Most of its losses are to home users looking for more advanced apps, media and web access, but it has also ceded ground in smaller businesses as more nimble firms could afford or were willing to experiment with changes to the iPhone, Android or other platforms.
