Blackberry's fall
I thought this was an interesting piece about Research in Motion (RIM/maker of Blackberries) and how it went from the top of the cell phone world to its current predicament. The article itself is quite long and probably won't be everyone's cup of tea but I recommend reading it if you're at all interested in business.
Mods: Feel free to move to the Media Center if you wish but I figured it was interesting enough to put out here where more than five people might actually see it. Short excerpt: Quote:
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That and the fact that Jim Balsillie was more interested in getting an NHL in Hamilton, ONT than growing his company.
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Interesting. Even though the company I work for is doing well, stories like this bring realization that nothing good lasts forever.
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It's funny. Just a year ago my kids and I had cheap little phones from Metro PCS. I finally upgraded to a smart phone, then did the same with my kids. Our cheap little low end phones worked just like the Blackberry.
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We made Blackberry phones the standard for all smart phones in my company, and it solved a bunch of problems we were having with reliability. Then a few years later we changed the standard to iPhones. I felt pretty good about both decisions. Blackberries were great in their day, but that day is gone. I don't see how RIM can survive. |
Berry was the first smart phone I had years ago. It was great.
Then they just...stopped. |
Arrogant jackasses.
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Self-inflicted suicide
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I really liked BB. They just didn't keep pace. |
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The China deal and blackberry messenger providing seem like particularly egregious missed opportunities. |
You could write the story of BB's fail in one sentence.
"Things were great, we were kicking ass until Google and Apple chose to enter the market." |
A company like RIM needed to be bought out by Google, who bought a struggling motorola in 2012. The only company that impresses me is Samsung, but they run on the android
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They're Canadian....what did you expect?
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meh, I don't need to read that to know why crackberry failed. It's called the iphone. I'm completely guessing here but I bet if you chart the fall of the crackberry you will see a direct correlation with the rise of the iphone. That, and the fact that other HUGE companies like Samsung are cranking out great platforms like the Galaxy and you have a recipe for extinction. |
iPhone is next. Galaxy and others are already better. Just will take some time to convince folks.
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I still have a BB somewhere. I loved the damn thing. I could type on that awesome keyboard quicker than I could on my PC. But I must admit, I just got the new iPhone and I'm loving it more.
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I develop a browser app that was to support all platforms. RIM's browsers have rivaled IE for biggest pile for several years. So much happier now that we no longer supporting them.
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They squandered it. |
RIM's executives took the wrong lesson from the apocryphal Henry Ford quote, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse." It doesn't mean that you should dismiss all customer feedback, just that customers are bad at coming up with innovations. RIM decided to give up on innovating and just push old technology.
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Yeah, Blackberry was entrenched as THE phone for business. This was even after the iPhone came out as there were questions of its security , at least initially.
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I agree with the person earlier who said it was their own arrogance that did them in.....they reminded me of the techie character from SNL that had the obnoxious attitude toward people who asked questions.
I had a Blackberry in 2005-2007 and it was great then. When I was at a larger company from 2007 to 2011 they just went downhill like an Olympic skier. When you would call to ask them about phone issues they were slow to respond and their first response was always "have you rebooted your phone" |
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