RIM's greatest issue has been LEGACY. RIM's focus on the enterprise ensures that a large number of their staff has to build hacks to ensure their software's ba

RIM's greatest issue has been LEGACY. RIM's focus on the enterprise ensures that a large number of their staff has to build hacks to ensure their software's backwards compatibility. Forget the entire "Flash as being dated" debacle and think more to the tune of Microsoft's Exchange servers and address databases from the 80s which RIM has to be compatible with. Naturally, companies must decide whether they want to ditch this side of the business. RIM tried to dip its toes in both. To be fair, they were trapped into supporting legacy services. Legacy isn't something that can spinned off. For RIM, they would have had to cut out a huge portion of their business to try to innovate. By comparison, Newer players in the mobile phone space (Apple, Google etc.) didn't/don't have to deal with legacy. That's why they have such a small presence in older large enterprise. Microsoft's mobile side had similar issues to deal with but I think that their newer platform has eliminated their legacy components so there is hope. As a Canadian, I'm very sad to see RIM die off. U Waterloo will also suffer tremendously. With SRED going away, I wonder what the Canadian tech scene will look like overall. I think I'll consolidate my thoughts on this and write a blog post or something.