The Verge takes on the rise and fall of RIM
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Marketplace, Microsoft, RIM, Steve Jobs, Tech Industry | Tags: android, apple, iPhone, marketshare, microsoft, research in motion, RIM, windows phone Leave a comment »An exhaustive and compelling cautionary tale.
RIM can’t save itself
Posted: January 24, 2012 Filed under: Apple, iPhone, RIM, Tech Industry | Tags: android, blackberry, iPhone, research in motion, RIM Leave a comment »New Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins — previously a co-COO at the BlackBerry maker, in charge of product and sales — is too little, too late.
Unless Heins is secretly a rare, freakish visionary genius whose creativity has been stifled by his former bosses for all these years — he’s been at RIM since 2007, right when it started to get into trouble — he’s not going to save the company from its decline.
It’s been almost five years since the smartphone industry shifted radically, and Research in Motion is finally starting to realize.
