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This is what RIM/Blackberry should have done when they were the most trusted name in telecom. They could've bought Nortel and made a juggernaut.
by astrodust 9y ago
This is what RIM/Blackberry should have done when they were the most trusted name in telecom. They could've bought Nortel and made a juggernaut.
- pedalpete 9y agoDoes this not also somewhat mean this is what Nortel should have done? What did RIM bring to the table that Nortel didn't have, or was this related to the timing, where Nortel was already in the gutter and RIM was still flying high?
- wmf 9y agoCompanies tend to get punished for reducing margins; this discourages self-disruption.
- astrodust 9y agoTiming related. Nortel over-extended themselves in the 1990s by making a bunch of acquisitions related to networking. RIM could've bailed them out or acquired the company outright since they were very strong financially until just after 2008. Remember, when the iPhone launched RIM was at their peak strength and Nortel was a forgotten husk.