RIM source says Mac tools are on the way!

Yes please. :)

I'm still on the fence as to when I'll take on iPhone because I am so anti AT&T wireless.

I covet Curve and now I covet Bold. Mmmm so meaty.

oh, NOW they care about the Mac ?? It's only what percent of uni student laptops? 40% ??? yeah, must be tough for a company with $7.17 Billion in revenue to find the change to fund development for a Mac version (even on the same CPU!) as well as Windows. So I can see how they'd always really wanted to but, gosh, just couldn't make the numbers work. Now that the iPhone is kicking their butts and taking taking names, all of a sudden the Mac market matters. Hey, RIM, suck it.

Now they just need to invent a time machine to go back 2 years to when this might have actually helped their mac customers. RIM's updates are a joke. Expect their debut mac app to have the quality of Quickbooks for mac.

Companies that don't regard the mac customer base as relevant are now starting to come around. We have more discretionary income for technology, we're more interested in function, we're more comfortable with using a wider spectrum of features on our machines, and we don't countenance bad ideas. It's great that RIM decided now to come around, and while it's a step in the right direction, by the time they learn to walk in the mac world, their competitors will have already learned to fly.

I can't wait. I won't be getting an iphone for a few years and who knows, maybe if this is good enough, I won't be interested in one either, although that's a tall order.

Too late! I'm jumping to Android next month.

Well, I like my Curve 8320... but you are all right, that the software for Mac is pathetic, especially compared to the PC/Windows software...

I can get *neither* Missing Sync NOR PocketMac to sync reliably... One makes duplicates of everything, the other just doesn't sync at ALL...

I will be buying a used iPhone, and getting it on my Tmobile account, as soon as I can save up the $.

Another vote for "too little, too late." I bought a Verizon 8330, tried it for a day, pulled my hair out trying to get *either* program to work, then took it back the next day. Complete failure to provide crucial trusted sync feature. Two days later, after much self reflection, bought an iPhone 3G from AT&T and LOVE it. RIM should be crapping their drawers over this. Same for any other smart phone company. I didn't realize how amazing Apple's effort was until I got my own (demos don't do it justice).

If they had done this two or three years ago, there might be no iPhone.

Now that there is an iPhone, which blows the BlackBerry away in so many different ways, I wonder if they'll recoup their development costs?

And look out when the iPhone gets a hard keyboard. BB's will be on Ebay for $0.50

tooooo little way tooooooooo late. I am on to the iPhone. They are well over a year late to the party. The sad thing is I was a huge fan of my BB even with its nonexistent support for the Mac. I guess for some its better late than never.

About freakin' time.

I love my BlackBerry. IMO, it does a superior job of handling email vs. the iPhone, and at the end of the day, that's the one thing I need my phone to be able to do (other than making calls, of course). Sure, I miss the multi-touch, the web browsing, the movies, the music, the iTMS, the App Store... But it's a tradeoff I'm comfortable with.

Still, RIM's Mac support to date has been downright pathetic. Between using a combination of Missing Sync and Google Sync, I'm able to get by. But if they're serious about making a big push into the consumer smartphone market, they really need to deliver with their Mac software, because Macs are what all the consumers are buying these days.