Five months after replacing the longstanding co-CEOs, Heins desperately needs more time to right the now-struggling company and he likely has next to nothing concrete to offer his restless audience in terms of new products and services.
RIM is screwed.
And yet his direct reports keep reassuring him that they’re working on all these things.
Sorry if this is too morbid, but when I read this it sounded exactly like the story of AF447 that John Gruber linked to yesterday. The guy who just took the controls doesn’t have enough maneuvering time left to get back to speed.