Why Does Blackberry Still Not Have Places?

Research in Motion's Blackberry phones have 50 million users, but apparently not enough of them are among the 200 million mobile users of Facebook.

I’m a walking example of why Research In Motion cell phones have earned the nickname Crackberry, so I feel like Rodney Dangerfield after today’s Facebook Places announcement.

Today the company made it sound like the expansion of Places would include all mobile phones, and I really hoped that would include the Blackberry, especially with the announcement of mobile deals. Apparently, Facebook thinks Android is cooler than RIM.

I realize there’s a demographic explanation for this, based on the number of downloads to the various platforms.

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