Dear Research in Motion,

In the coming year, please take the SDK for Google’s Open Handset Alliance and iPhone SDK and create a BlackBerry Connect for those respective platforms. I realize that you have solutions out there now [link] and may have plans for this in the future [link] and I don’t want to sound too presumptuous or impetuous but I’m tired of shocking headlines about your products you have yet to make.

Run on all platforms and shut pundits up. I don’t want to read another nearly-fired-due-to-lack-of-productivity-wallstreet-analysts cum blogging-fud-and-buzz-rakers‘ cobbled together ideas of what would spark growth. Nor do I want to read how RIM’s [insert product name] is going to be the next [insert hot handset, business device, software]-killer. I know you see the potential of everyone in the business world connecting to their corporate BES with or without a genuine BlackBerry device. If you made connections to BIS cheap and available to everyone – you could become the de-facto standard for email; in fact email 2.0.

Keep making your handsets, make them sexy and irresistible to appease your current fan base; but make your service sexy and irresistible. Your biggest market isn’t the people who want Blackberry devices, it’s the people that don’t have Blackberry devices. If you don’t kill the iPhone or HTC’s touch devices, you could live happily knowing that you’re cashing in on their connectivity.

kthnxbai,
pb

ps: could you open up a datacenter in michigan? we kinda need the jobs…