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RIM isn't dead until it does what all dead companies seem to do these day: get a new CEO and explode in one final conflagration of litigation when it digs aroun
by cletus 15y ago
RIM isn't dead until it does what all dead companies seem to do these day: get a new CEO and explode in one final conflagration of litigation when it digs around and finds a patent on the letter E.
That being said, their trajectory seems to be downward and I have trouble imagining how they will survive long term. It's simply becoming uneconomical to have your own mobile OS without significant market share. The future here seems to belong to iOS and Android, at least for the foreseeable future.
Windows Phone 7 only survives because it's being pumped up by the great cash engine of Windows/Office. Perhaps MS will plant a poison pill into RIM and eventually buy them out to buy marketshare, much as they've done and are doing to Nokia.
- PakG1 15y agoI just had a thought. You just described the strategy they used to grow Xbox to what it is today.
- kabdib 15y agoEr, no.
- PakG1 15y agoI've been puzzling as to why I was downvoted on this. I finally came across some numbers. Microsoft dropped more than $10 billion on the Xbox before it ever turned a dime in profit (that's operating loss -- not including acquisitions. It's still about $4 billion in the hole, lifetime.) http://www.businessinsider.com/so-how-long-until-we-can-write-the-obituary-for-windows-phone-2012-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/so-how-long-until-we-can-writ... I'm really failing to see how what I said about Xbox was wrong, given these numbers. But I suppose it's old news now.