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RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

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Re: RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

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Post by diminish »

codedivine wrote: post #19

As a sidenote, all the cheering and celebration that goes on in the techpress when a company dies is somewhat disgusting. I don't understand why a large section of tech industry wants RIM or Nokia etc to fail. I would rather them see them succeed, see them build something cool and have more and fun things to play with. edit: I think we can safely conclude that hackers are about as human and as fallible as any other g…

Сompanies have their reign and they die; it's inevitable. (But CocaCola didn't yet die). The problem seems to be that people's fate are too much tied to the fate of their company. Each company can be seen as trial of a business model or product idea; they monetize the idea to the full limit and then they go down.

And each death seems to be a birth for another company; look at Apple's profits and Samsungs growth.

Re: RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

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Post by coopdog »

codedivine wrote: post #19

As a sidenote, all the cheering and celebration that goes on in the techpress when a company dies is somewhat disgusting. I don't understand why a large section of tech industry wants RIM or Nokia etc to fail. I would rather them see them succeed, see them build something cool and have more and fun things to play with. edit: I think we can safely conclude that hackers are about as human and as fallible as any other g…

It's also a good thing to have a company finally fail rather than just not quite die perpetually. It frees up their engineers and other talented people to go pursue a company with maybe a bigger or more contemporary vision for adding value to the world

Ie, let's take these resources away from those bad managers.

Sucks for the employees short term, but no doubt they'll be happier in the long run

Re: RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

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Post by btipling »

mark_story wrote: post #15
btipling wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there is room for three great smartphone platforms and I hope Windows Phone isn't one of them. So I'm rooting for RIM.

What's actually wrong with Windows Phone other than it came from MS? From what I've seen of it, its a well designed well executed mobile OS. You can't really say the same of the recent blackberry os releases.

Because that's just one more smartphone OS that will never support app development from anything other than their own creator's platform, i.e. Windows and Visual Studio or Mac OS X and Xcode. The world doesn't need this horrible, closed-system, innovation killing, walled gardens crap anymore.

Re: RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

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Post by mark_story »

btipling wrote: post #43
mark_story wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's actually wrong with Windows Phone other than it came from MS? From what I've seen of it, its a well designed well executed mobile OS. You can't really say the same of the recent blackberry os releases.

Because that's just one more smartphone OS that will never support app development from anything other than their own creator's platform, i.e. Windows and Visual Studio or Mac OS X and Xcode. The world doesn't need this horrible, closed-system, innovation killing, walled gardens crap anymore.

That's a totally fair point. Sadly I think iOS' success just compels other manufacturers to follow suit.
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