Another day, another bad forecast from an industry analyst; today’s comes courtesy of Matthew Robison with Wunderlich Securities. Robison claims that RIM will lose the consumer appeal it has worked so hard to build over the last few years. Robison was quoted saying:

“Our long-term forecast anticipates a role supplying business-oriented devices, both mid-range and high end, as well as cloud-based services via the BlackBerry Network. We expect the consumer mix gained over the past two years to churn off, and that earnings will decline after 2013 and eventually grow again on demand that is largely associated with business users.”

Despite selling well in relation to other hot tablets on the market i.e. Apple’s iPad and Android based ones, Robison also commented saying:

“there’s little indication that the PlayBook has registered with consumers outside the loyal BlackBerry installed base”

After attending BlackBerry World 2011, playing with the 9900, and starting to review the PlayBook; I can admit that while I don’t disagree with the above statements, I feel as though analysts are counting RIM out too soon; the die-hard consumers are die-hard for a reason: they love BlackBerry and always will, and a few delays aren’t going to be enough to sway’em.

Agree? Disagree? Sound off in the comments.

[via AllthingsD]