if RIM, feels its best for their share holders if they stick with the smart phone market stricktly, thats up to them, like you mentioned, mine was largely from a customer's point of view.
Basically you want them to create a whole ecosystem which parrallels what Apple have done?
I for one find it difficult to happen.Would rather see RIM stick to its strengths and keep producing good quality,reliable handsets which work very,very well for most executives(basically giving them no reason to switch to a competitor atleast for Business).
I wholeheartedly agree (from a consumer point of view)and respect your opinion regarding the Blackberry playbook here.
But I also feel that ultimately Blackberry is responsible to its shareholders and so the decision which most benefits its shareholders(especially in the Long-term) is the right/correct decision.
For this I feel that Blackberry insiders/Senior & experienced management have the best understanding of the situation at hand here.
1)Their encryption technologies(which caused so much brouhaha last year)
2)Their Keypad(the touchscreen ones on most leading competitors just don't cut it for most busy execs)
and
3)The Messenger
Its time for Blackberry to re-affirm its strengths and build on its reputation as a no-nonsense operator in the market.
For that reliability issues like the one which happened last week need to be tackled with an iron fist.
If they do this there is hope for Blackberry.
Regarding the Playbook(whether to keep pushing it or shut it down)-That's a decision which should be taken only after the QNX OS has gotten widespread traction in the market.
I see no reason why RIM should exit the market. RIM is a strong company, and i think a flow in their strategy with th playbook could be workedout internally.
There are too few strong competitors in the tablet market, and RIM is needed in there!
I had the opportunity to work with people from RIM Design department, and Had the chance to visit their facility, I can say they can do that and even more.
Yes, I also vote No. I have almost the same thoughts as you. It will be interesting from the readers who voted yes. What kind of arguments make them to vote yes.
The recent, widespread RIM service outages is a perfect example of how RIM has much bigger priorities than trying to compete in the tablet market, a market in which it is ill-suited to compete in anyhow.
RIM really needs to focus on their phones and playing to their strengths in the enterprise space. And of course, they need to do damage control and make some upgrades to ensure an outage such as this one never occurs again... another couple of incidents like this and there will be a mass exodus.
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