11 things RIM did right in 2011

Yeah, that was ambitious. I got nothing, sorry.



14 thoughts on “11 things RIM did right in 2011

  1. It depends on whether or not “right” == “good.”

    1) Lost market share

    2) Produced a tablet that no one wanted.

    3) Proved that people really want email on their tablets.

    11) No Profit!

  2. Are you seriously telling me, that ditching native email, calendaring and BBM in favour of Need For Speed Shift, wasn’t right?

    Wait…

  3. How smart the analysts are.  Two years ago, they all agreed that RIM would be the dominant smartphone company for the next five years thanks to their corporate strengths, push e-mail service and bullet-proof security.  Those analysts boosted RIM’s share price to the moon and pretty much disdainfully regarded Apple’s iPhone as a toy.  It appears as the analysts were wrong.  They just love to bet against Apple and their “toy” iDevices.

  4. I actually thought you’d have something here. Damn.
    If you had found eleven things they did right, Balisille and Lazaridis probably would’ve come to your house with a printed version of this article, given you a kiss on the cheek* and then merrily jumped away to hand this list to RIM’s controlling.

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    * Whichever cheek you would’ve wanted.

  5. Analysts boosted RIM because they were smart enough to dump it.  A market had to be made for people to buy the RIM stock so the analysts’ bosses could get money to buy Apple.  That’s my take and I could be wrong.

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