RIM has $1.7 billion in the bank, no debt, and has grown quarter after quarter after quarter.  The whole “RIM is DOOMED” meme has grown primarily out of the opinions of people who prefer other smartphone OSes, not out of any real statistics.  Hard as it is for partisans of other OSes to imagine, lots of people value solid battery life and class-leading messaging over Angry Birds and Netflix.

Honestly everyone, the researchers claim it themselves “… anecdotal evidence suggests…”. Yeah, I’ll base my business strategy on that….

Finally, I’m sure I can find 5 studies that would say the contrary or that teenage girls prefer Nokia phones. It all depends on the methodology, the actual questions asked and the sampling.

At best, these results should be taken to temper/dilute other research claiming that the iPhone trumps all, but it should definitely not be taken as a bona fide re-emergence of RIM and it’s Blackberry product.

Recent talk of RIM’s woes seems odd when so many teens are addicted to their Blackberries.