Jim Balsillie resigns, RIM earnings disappoint, share prices drop and Thorsten Heins starts firing people
Jim Balsillie resigns, RIM earnings disappoint, share prices drop and Thorsten Heins starts firing people
Breaking Research in Motion news: today brought not only an expected fourth quarter earnings report (spoiler: the numbers were dismal and share prices nosedived), but also a big—if not surprising—announcement: former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has stepped down from the company’s board of directors. New CEO Thorsten Heins also used this momentous day to start firing high-level staff in sales and marketing. At least no one can can say the company’s not making significant changes anymore. Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »
You mention taeitrng users like cows who are there to be milked . Honestly, as a former Blackberry user, and current iPhone and Playbook owner, I think that statement holds true for Apple as much as any other company. Apple products are overpriced, overhyped, and under criticized (still have barely ever heard an article or blog post slamming the iPhone for its atrocious scrolling/cutting/pasting functionality!).And also, for goodness sake, you claim that The company claims to have the most popular smartphone in Britain, *but* Comscore pins BlackBerry OS at around eight to 10 percent of the market in Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and Spain as if these measures contradict one another. But obviously obviously obviously one is measuring the British market and the other is an aggregate of 5 *independent* european nations. You are instantiating the very ignorance of other markets that you discuss in the article.In my experience, working with UK offices, never mind users overall, which seems high based on the numbers you quote, but corporate users are not in the least bit interested in iPhones they are most definitely dedicated Blackberry users. Perhaps you might follow up with more data on corporate users both inside and outside the US?