I Told You RIM Was in Trouble

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Post by rkuester » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 4:47 AM UTC

I Told You RIM Was in Trouble
appleoutsider.com

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Post by dlsspy » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 5:41 AM UTC

Whatever happened to http://rim.jobs/ ? Apparently they're no longer hiring.

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Post by joeguilmette » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 6:32 AM UTC

link to the RIM CEO's talk. worth a read. if i had RIM stock i would be frantically selling it right now. http://pastie.org/1716857

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Post by tlear » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 6:53 AM UTC

They made a great decision with QNX. But flash and Adobe is what is going to kill them

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Post by georgieporgie » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 7:08 AM UTC

it’s limited to the all-but-obsolete Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” runtime.

Uh. 3.0 was created specifically to address tablet concerns, was it not? 2.3 is still the new hotness for phones.

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Post by wtracy » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 7:27 AM UTC

If I were at Palm now or before their acquisition by HP, I would be pushing to ease up on the consumer focus and make an all-out attack on Blackberry's home turf.

RIM has completely lost focus. It has taken its eyes off of its own flagship product, and is busy trying to copy whatever anyone else is doing--but it can't really make up its mind who it wants to copy.

I think WebOS could have been a tremendous hit in enterprise IT departments. Anyone who can handle basic web technologies can write apps for it. If Palm had focused on the enterprise segment, WebOS could have been God's gift to any IT department saddled with a significant number of in-house applications.

Grab someone with a web development certificate from the junior college, give them a month, and you can have an app on all your in-the-field employees' mobile phones. Oh, and you can trivially port it to your desktop machines, too!

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Post by Zev » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 7:29 AM UTC

georgieporgie wrote: post #5

it’s limited to the all-but-obsolete Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” runtime. Uh. 3.0 was created specifically to address tablet concerns, was it not? 2.3 is still the new hotness for phones.

The PlayBook is a tablet, not a phone.

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Post by Samuel_Michon » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

georgieporgie wrote: post #5

it’s limited to the all-but-obsolete Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” runtime. Uh. 3.0 was created specifically to address tablet concerns, was it not? 2.3 is still the new hotness for phones.

For phones, sure, but certainly not for tablets. By the time that consumers can actually buy RIM's PlayBook tablet, how many developers will still be writing tablet apps for Android 2.3? All Android tablets that have any chance of taking market share from the iPad run Android 3 (Motorola's Xoom, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, etc).

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Post by jarin » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

"If that’s not a win-win synergy of agile infrastructure assets, well you need to start pivoting."

My favorite part of the whole article.

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Post by kosmonaut » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

joeguilmette wrote: post #3

link to the RIM CEO's talk. worth a read. if i had RIM stock i would be frantically selling it right now. http://pastie.org/1716857

I tried to read it but it's headache inducing (the talk, not the colors). Wow.