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Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

#21

That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.

I noticed the link to the AP article after I posted and it had been upvoted. But to be honest, the 'blog spam' actually says everything that is interesting in the AP article, in about half the wordcount.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market. The Storm was rushed out, as the article says, in part because RIM thought it had to compete where I don't think it had to compete. Now I'm no savvy analyst, but it seems to me like RIM got tricked into picking a fight on…

I'd say RIM was superior in messaging, but lost because they kept the platform closed - and inferior in photos and music, which made them lose as a multi-use device.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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post #6

That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.

There's a far, far better account at the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/excerpt-ho... (it's an excerpt from a book)

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9591528.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

#24

That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.

Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://time.com/3916434/blackberry-storm/.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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post #22
post #2

I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market. The Storm was rushed out, as the article says, in part because RIM thought it had to compete where I don't think it had to compete. Now I'm no savvy analyst, but it seems to me like RIM got tricked into picking a fight on…

I'd say RIM was superior in messaging, but lost because they kept the platform closed - and inferior in photos and music, which made them lose as a multi-use device.

If only they would have brought BBM to iOS, Android and the rest of the platforms...

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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post #2

I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market. The Storm was rushed out, as the article says, in part because RIM thought it had to compete where I don't think it had to compete. Now I'm no savvy analyst, but it seems to me like RIM got tricked into picking a fight on…

Enterprise and business users were increasingly getting used to and demanding iPhones and iPhone-like devices. Apple and Android phones changed the way people used phones and Blackberries went from being the "how cool is it that my work got me this awesome phone that lets me do so much" device to the "ugh, my workplace still forces me to use this crappy device with a tiny screen and a funky physical keyboard" device.

Government/military users of course have long been accustomed to using whatever device wins the RFP, but even there the change in how people use mobile computing devices had to be felt.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

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post #24

That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.

Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://time.com/3916434/blackberry-storm/ .

Change the URL again to this: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CN_TEC_BLACKBERRY_FAI...

The current URL makes you pick your city, etc, first.

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

#29
post #24

That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.

Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://time.com/3916434/blackberry-storm/ .

The AP link seems to be broken now

Re: Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly

#30
post #2

I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market. The Storm was rushed out, as the article says, in part because RIM thought it had to compete where I don't think it had to compete. Now I'm no savvy analyst, but it seems to me like RIM got tricked into picking a fight on…

By the time the iPhone came out, they were already innovator dilemmaed to death. They could either choose to double down on their existing customers and be slowly nibbled to death or leap across the chasm to mainstream customers and fall into the pit. The only way they could have survived was if they had started 5 years before and came up with the iPhone themselves, which wasn't going to happen. Faced with two bad pa…

I disagree. RIM never realized they were never selling pagers or phones. They were selling business communications. They should have made their software run on devices built by others. They could keep their high-end devices and market them as status symbols.

And, obviously, their phones should run Android.

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