RIM Outage Victims Provided Compensation In Apps Instead Of Cash

After Resuscitating from the Outage which crippled BlackBerry's Web based communications leaving the BBM,Web,EMail users literally stranded for almost 4 days after an apparent failure in the failswitch mechanism. The issue which was initially prevalent in the Middle East countries,along with India & South Africa also engulfed U.S,Canada & Puerto Rica into this messy affair.
                                                            After RIM managed to the clear the backlogs which were created due to the apparent glitch was removed & the company had issued an official statement claiming that the services are fully restored & up and running.While users were expecting for some kind of a compensatory cash package,to everyones dismay RIM has announced that it will be provided a package of 12 apps as a compensation.Totaling almost $100 in the BlackBerry App store,these apps include SIMS 3,Vligno plus which are premium apps which will be provided given free with a customer support offered for one month.The Entire App list includes the following:

• SIMS 3 – Electronic Arts 
• Bejeweled – Electronic Arts
• N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
• Texas Hold’em Poker 2 – Gameloft
• Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
• Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
• DriveSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
• iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
• Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex
• Shazam Encore – Shazam 
• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo

                                                  In a statement made by Research In Motion's(RIM)CEO Mike Lazaridis:

“We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for their patience,” RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in a statement. “We have apologized to our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore their confidence. We are taking immediate and aggressive steps to help prevent something like this from happening again.”

Well the disgruntled users have something to cheer about rather than to be left high & dry.Probably this comes as a tactical move by RIM to prevent its users from shifting over to Apple's iOS whose timing was absolutely perfect with the Outage which eclipsed RIM.The entire cost of the Outage due to a Snag in the server as well as back-up server system has slapped RIM with losses which amounts to a staggering $100M.