This is pretty poorly written, even if his point is valid. TiVo to RIM is an apples to oranges comparison. You can't surmise that because RIM had $15b in revenu

This is pretty poorly written, even if his point is valid. TiVo to RIM is an apples to oranges comparison. You can't surmise that because RIM had $15b in revenues and TiVo had $240m that the difference is humility. It might just be that there is a lot more money in Blackberries than DVRs. It might be that RIM faced no real challenge in the early years, whereas TiVo faced challenges from every cable company and electronics maker who partnered together to make their own DVRs. Everyone knew what a TiVo was regardless of the description. It was such a hot topic that blogs about it made fortunes from AdSense in the early years. Perhaps calling themselves a better VCR would have worked out, but I can't imagine it would have been an extra $14.75 billion.