6 thoughts on “T-Mobile to stop stocking BlackBerry phones”
Put the fork in Blackberry (RIM). I’ say me theory one more time: BlackBerry (RIM) started failing when Microsoft released Server 2008s2 and sold Active Directory sync to Apple,& Google after. Businesses (that usually used Blackberry & RIM Server) learned slowly the last few years that they don’t need that expensive BlackBerry Server anymore if they already had 2008s2 or better to support iPhones & Androids.
I wonder what friends of Lazaridis and Balsillie believe the problem was.
Why is it sad? Blackberry bashing is a sport here at The Loop (and most of the tech industry). They’re a company loaded with incompetent management that made horrible decisions to do nothing as their industry passed them by. They’re now getting exactly what they worked hard to get for the last several years.
Sad because there are a lot of people hurt by this. As much as we like to armchair CEO (and they did make some very silly moves) it doesn’t mean we should revel over people losing their jobs.
Good for T-Mobile. I’m sure Blackberry holds them to some kind of sales contract, so they might as well drop them if those Blackberries aren’t selling. And think about it, as far as carriers go, T-Mobile is low on the list of having Blackberry users as subscribers. The whole thing makes sense, actually.
Well yes, that part is sad. But I suspect anyone there worth their weight in salt will be picked up by another tech company fairly quickly.
Put the fork in Blackberry (RIM). I’ say me theory one more time: BlackBerry (RIM) started failing when Microsoft released Server 2008s2 and sold Active Directory sync to Apple,& Google after. Businesses (that usually used Blackberry & RIM Server) learned slowly the last few years that they don’t need that expensive BlackBerry Server anymore if they already had 2008s2 or better to support iPhones & Androids.
I wonder what friends of Lazaridis and Balsillie believe the problem was.
Why is it sad? Blackberry bashing is a sport here at The Loop (and most of the tech industry). They’re a company loaded with incompetent management that made horrible decisions to do nothing as their industry passed them by. They’re now getting exactly what they worked hard to get for the last several years.
Sad because there are a lot of people hurt by this. As much as we like to armchair CEO (and they did make some very silly moves) it doesn’t mean we should revel over people losing their jobs.
Good for T-Mobile. I’m sure Blackberry holds them to some kind of sales contract, so they might as well drop them if those Blackberries aren’t selling. And think about it, as far as carriers go, T-Mobile is low on the list of having Blackberry users as subscribers. The whole thing makes sense, actually.
Well yes, that part is sad. But I suspect anyone there worth their weight in salt will be picked up by another tech company fairly quickly.