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I feel like you're glossing over a bunch of things here. 1) the display on the iphone was gigantic compared to any other device on the market. The fact the iPh
by josh2600 6y ago
I feel like you're glossing over a bunch of things here.
1) the display on the iphone was gigantic compared to any other device on the market. The fact the iPhone had the battery life it did was amazing.
2) the software on the iphone destroyed anything RIM had ever put forward.
3) the iPhone was a much better piece of hardware aesthetically and performance-wise than anything RIM had ever put out. Their closest competitor was the Pearl and it was garbage compared to the iPhone.
4) Lastly, RIM had 10 year development cycles. Pivoting to attack the iPhone meant ripping apart 10 years of planned development much of which was already executed. Pivoting that hard is just not something companies at the scale or RIM are designed to do.
RIM should've seen the writing on the wall, shred their hardware business, and gone all in on supporting BES on iPhone. I digress...
- tinus_hn 6y agoI don’t know if there was a future for them anyway. What could they have done that Apple could not? Did they even have a way for third parties to make apps? Even though the iPhone originally didn’t have that the jailbreak community pretty quickly showed that was the way forward.
- josh2600 6y agoJust to be clear, RIM was on top of the world when the iPhone came out, and, if they had been fast pivoting they might still be relevant in the world.