RIM's Mike Lazaridis apologizes, spends $100 on every BlackBerry user for outages
If you still own a BlackBerry device, then you probably experienced the four-day absence of all BlackBerry services last week. Fortunately, they're all back up now, but only after RIM founder Mike Lazaridis released a quite somber apology video (above.)
Feeling that the video wasn't enough, Mike and the rest of the RIM team decided to spend some money on every BlackBerry user affected (which, really, is every BlackBerry user) by giving away $100 in the following apps:
- SIMS 3 – EA
- Bejeweled – EA
- N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
- Texas Hold'em Poker 2 – Gameloft
- Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
- Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
- DriverSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
- iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
- Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
- Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex
- Shazam Encore – Shazam
- Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo
I would make a joke here about how RIM might only be spending $300 in total on apps for its users, but I feel so bad for all of its problems lately that I think I'm just going to leave it alone.
Were you affected by the outages?
[Engadget | Anythingbutiphone]
