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Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sarcasm tag needed? I think OP makes a good point. If RIM would have cross-platormed BBM sooner, they would of incredibly early to the messaging platform war

Which would have added $0 in revenue to the company.

Which is not if sell one dollar just like whatsapp

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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Problems were they ignored Apple and at a time in which they themselfs were moving more towards the consumer market with the perl and Bold models, dropping the nice easy to use jog-wheel which still can't be beat for scrolling up and down fast with one hand, imho. They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how thin…

>They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how things were going and with that had extra delays in seeing what was wrong.

What does share price as an indicator and not feedback mean?

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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post #53
post #9

Problems were they ignored Apple and at a time in which they themselfs were moving more towards the consumer market with the perl and Bold models, dropping the nice easy to use jog-wheel which still can't be beat for scrolling up and down fast with one hand, imho. They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how thin…

>They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how things were going and with that had extra delays in seeing what was wrong. What does share price as an indicator and not feedback mean?

Means people would tell managment things were wrong and they would ignore it as the share price was doing well. So instead of using metrics to gauge how well they did they were in effect ignoring those and going the share price is alright, have another beer.
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