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I don't want to get political, but what you're talking about sounds a lot like corporate welfare. I don't know much about Nortel, but Avro seemed like the sort

I don't want to get political, but what you're talking about sounds a lot like corporate welfare. I don't know much about Nortel, but Avro seemed like the sort of company that was trying harder to get featured in Popular Mechanics than make something useful, and I don't know if anybody ever considered Blackberry tech cool enough for it to be a "halo" product. Supporting home-grown tech sounds great, but how do you prevent porking?

core-questions 7y ago
> what you're talking about sounds a lot like corporate welfare. What if it is? What if the only way to make longer term speculative investments work in a place like Canada is simply to put some government muscle behind them? > I don't know if anybody ever considered Blackberry tech cool enough for it to be a "halo" product Did you miss the 2000s? Blackberries were THE phone for anyone in corporate / political life. RIM's play should have been to make their mobile device management software control iPhones and Androids as soon as humanly possible, and Blackberry Messenger should have been brought out on every platform right away. Keep the enterprises under control and use that steady money to regroup and find a way to make phones that compete with the iPhone later. Instead they just doubled down on stupid until it basically killed them.
- frenchyatwork 7y ago
  > RIM's play should have been to make their mobile device management software control iPhones and Androids as soon as humanly possible I'm not convinced that would have worked. I remember the 2000s, and I remember that a selling point for iPhones was the fact that corporations would let them get away from Blackberry's controls. The big problem is that they would have had to get Apple to agree to let Blackberry lock down the iPhones, and IIRC, Apple wasn't a fan of that idea.

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I don't want to get political, but what you're talking about sounds a lot like corporate welfare. I don't know much about Nortel, but Avro seemed like the sort

by frenchyatwork 7y ago

core-questions 7y ago
> what you're talking about sounds a lot like corporate welfare. What if it is? What if the only way to make longer term speculative investments work in a place like Canada is simply to put some government muscle behind them? > I don't know if anybody ever considered Blackberry tech cool enough for it to be a "halo" product Did you miss the 2000s? Blackberries were THE phone for anyone in corporate / political life. RIM's play should have been to make their mobile device management software control iPhones and Androids as soon as humanly possible, and Blackberry Messenger should have been brought out on every platform right away. Keep the enterprises under control and use that steady money to regroup and find a way to make phones that compete with the iPhone later. Instead they just doubled down on stupid until it basically killed them.
- frenchyatwork 7y ago
  > RIM's play should have been to make their mobile device management software control iPhones and Androids as soon as humanly possible I'm not convinced that would have worked. I remember the 2000s, and I remember that a selling point for iPhones was the fact that corporations would let them get away from Blackberry's controls. The big problem is that they would have had to get Apple to agree to let Blackberry lock down the iPhones, and IIRC, Apple wasn't a fan of that idea.