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Suggestion: They have to come up with a plan and stick to it. Through thick and thin. They have to be like Apple with the AppleTV. Don't make lofty pronouncemen

Suggestion: They have to come up with a plan and stick to it. Through thick and thin. They have to be like Apple with the AppleTV. Don't make lofty pronouncements, call it a hobby, anything, but just keep plugging away incrementally improving it. I don't care if it's a smartphone, a thin PC, or a mid-sized tablet with VoIP. Pick one and try to build it slowly, absorb punishment and learn from mistakes, but just keep plugging away instead of trying to hit one out of the park.

ChuckMcM 14y ago
I was thinking of something similar. The cynic in me has this conversation at the board: MW: "We have to develop a smartphone." Board: "Uh, can we sell ink for that?" MW: "What? NO you bonehead, its a phone you know you make calls on it?" Board: "Uh, but without ink how do you make any money?" MW: "People buy them as fashion accessories doofus!" Board: "Fashion accessories? I don't think we have anyone here that knows anything about fashion. Is there any other way to make money with phones?" MW: "Oh sure, you make one and then sue everyone for patent infringment." Board: "Oh that we can do! We've got lots and lots of patents. We'll get right on that." But less cynically, I can't imagine how they could get into the smartphone space without first buying a company that had done the investment to know how to be in the smartphone space (and I'm not sure Palm counts, but maybe they were in tighter with Rim than we knew). Of course they could buy RIM ...