BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is arguing that Apple isn’t innovating the UI of the iPhone fast enough, making the device outdated. At the same time, he admits that BlackBerry 10 owes iOS for its groundwork on touch devices.
“Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices to market, they did a fantastic job with the user interface,” said Heins. “[But] the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate . . . you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.”
In the realm of tablets, Heins was a little more generous. “Kudos to Apple, I think they really managed to own that space, so it doesn’t make sense for me to just take this head on,” he conceded. “I need to figure out, for my enterprise customers, for my consumers, for my BB10 audience, what can I do that provides them a mobile computing experience in the form factor of a tablet, which goes beyond just the puristic tablet experience.”
Source: SlashGear.com
