RIM Co-CEOs Balisillie and Lazaridis to Step Down
Much Needed and Long Overdue
A change in leadership is exactly the kind of thing to fix that image problem and help the stock price start increasing again.
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Vmac39 said:
I understand RIM has always been more of a business phone but, they have kind of fallen behind in terms of what a lot of people wanted, I think. With business professionals being younger and more of the older ones retiring, the expectations of what a phone should do and what people want them to do has changed.
All that happened with RIM is that they were a company with business oriented smartphones that just HAPPENED to be there a few years back when everyone on earth decided that they had to have these devices.
So overnight, thanks to Apple and later Google a new "consumer" market was created for these devices which RIM was slow to respond to.
Blackberries still have a lot of strengths, b...
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I mean, how did Apple originally become successful? They become successful because they just happened to product an affordable personal computer right at the time when computers were starting to be no longer the exclusive domain of electronics hobbyists and were starting to become mainstream.
And after the introduction of the Apple II, Apple struggled for a lot of years to find an adequate follow up, and then came a string of failed products, the Apple III, the Lisa, and the first generation Macintosh.
Indeed, RIM's story is very similar to Apple's....and RIM right now is about where Apple was when Steve Jo...
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I owned a couple of Newtons which are about the size of todays Android phones with about the same battery life 🤣
Apple knew how to screw up too sometimes.
I know I'll get flamed for that comment 🤣 All kidding aside...
Palm, RIM and Windows mobile used to dominate, now Apple and Google. You never know what tomorrow may bring...
QNX should hopefully be a good alternative to those that are annoyed with their perceived shortcomings on other smartphone platforms. RIM has a shot
Bring the specs of the high end Blackberries up to the level of the high end Android phones and switch to a more stable OS based on the one currently in use on the Playbook and I think they'll be fine....they just need to get Blackberry 10 into production ASAP.
The Blackberry Playbook, on the other hand, is very stable. I ordered on Thanksgiving when they were $199.99 and it has performed exceptionally, not one crash yet. On the other hand, my Motorola Xoom seems to have spps crash after every couple hours of usage.
If the performance of the Playbook is any indication I think the stability issues should be fixed wit...
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T Bone said:
Truthfully, there is nothing really 'wrong' at RIM, it's just an image problem, in 2011 they sold 50 million Blackberry handsets, whatever that might be, that's NOT failure or a sign that the company is about to go under. The only problem is the Wall Street analysts who keep telling people to sell RIM stock....the very same analysts, I might add, who told people to keep buying Enron stock right up until the moment the company went under. The analysts don't know jack.
A change in leadership is exactly the kind of thing to fix that image problem and help the stock price start increasing again.
Nice post. And very, very true.
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