Page 1 of How the iPhone crippled Blackberry

http://boingboing.net/2015/06/05/the-inside-story-of-how-the-ip.html

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The next day Mr. Lazaridis grabbed his co-CEO Jim Balsillie at the office and pulled him in front of a computer.

"Jim, I want you to watch this," he said, pointing to a webcast of the iPhone unveiling. "They put a full Web browser on that thing. The carriers aren't letting us put a full browser on our products."

Mr. Balsillie's first thought was RIM was losing AT&T as a customer. "Apple's got a better deal," Mr. Balsillie said. "We were never allowed that. The U.S. market is going to be tougher."

"These guys are really, really good," Mr. Lazaridis replied. "This is different."

"It's OK -- we'll be fine," Mr. Balsillie responded.

RIM's chiefs didn't give much additional thought to Apple's iPhone for months. "It wasn't a threat to RIM's core business," says Mr. Lazaridis's top lieutenant, Larry Conlee. "It wasn't secure. It had rapid battery drain and a lousy [digital] keyboard."
Oops! At least they admit now their thinking was a bit off. ;)


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RIM's devices crippled Blackberry. I have one for work and it's terrible. No on likes them, but we appear to be stuck with them for the time being. There have been rumblings of going to Windows Mobile, but who knows?







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If you were still stuck with them for work Chris, you won't be much longer:
http://gizmodo.com/sad-blackberry-will-stop-making-phones-1787177777

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We are, albeit the slightly better ones that can side-load Android apps. I read this yesterday actually. We'll be going to Android at some point in the future once we get Lync and Sype for Business in as part of our telephony overhaul. Although all of our projects are behind schedule... Win 10 was supposed to be Q4 this year and the PID hasn't even gone in...







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