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Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: sekker
Date: May 29, 2012 08:20PM
This was the number one technology company in all of Canada.

They waited at least 2 years too long to fire their co-CEOs, and their products show it.

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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: deckeda
Date: May 29, 2012 08:43PM
Few CEOs can drive product lines directly. As we all know, it tends to be very rare to have one as a visionary. In this regard, they were doomed years ago. Even if they did a full stop in the summer of 2007 they wouldn't have had enough time to compete even with Android later, which had an insider's head start to what Apple was doing.

RIM was smart to target and support Enterprise right off the bat: that was the historical MS path to success. No one expected these same users to later force Enterprise to accept their more sophisticated smartphones.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: hal
Date: May 29, 2012 09:32PM
RIM was a one trick pony - they were doomed from the start. They assumed that the one trick would stun and amaze people forever.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: GGD
Date: May 29, 2012 10:04PM
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hal
RIM was a one trick pony - they were doomed from the start. They assumed that the one trick would stun and amaze people forever.

In some ways, reminds me of Palm in the earlier days, with the Palm Pilot.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: Racer X
Date: May 29, 2012 11:16PM
Looks like a lot of people aren't going to be getting @#$%& in the future.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: Panopticon
Date: May 30, 2012 05:54AM
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Racer X
Looks like a lot of people aren't going to be getting @#$%& in the future.

bada-bing! rimshot smileys with beer

...so RIM continues its race with Nokia to the abyss, sad.





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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: DP
Date: May 30, 2012 08:10AM
I have two friends who (up to this point) wouldn't own any phone but a Blackberry and they are very upset about RIM.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: May 30, 2012 08:18AM
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Racer X
Looks like a lot of people aren't going to be getting @#$%& in the future.

What about Freehand jobs?




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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: TLB
Date: May 30, 2012 09:34AM
I have 10 coworkers that were diehard Blackberry fans. Today? 6 iPhones and 4 Androids. It was an even split but one of the Android users had battery problems on their phone. After 3 replacements he switched to the iPhone.
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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: May 30, 2012 10:51AM
....so they will now be RIMming on the DL.....??


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Re: Sad but predictable - Losses and Layoffs at RIM
Posted by: Sam3
Date: May 30, 2012 06:49PM
I'll be stuck using a Blackberry from work as my boss wants the 2-way capabilities for us. Not many phones can be used for 2-way walkie-talkie style communication any more.
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