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> If blackberry fails in the consumer market, the commercial market will save it. Why? Blackberry's grip on the corporate market was destroyed by execs coming
by AlexDanger 14y ago
> If blackberry fails in the consumer market, the commercial market will save it.
Why? Blackberry's grip on the corporate market was destroyed by execs coming to work with their iPhones and demanding that IT depts connect them to the corporate infrastructure.
Remember, IT works for the business - not the other way around.
- ghshephard 14y agoTrue in most cases - but, in some organizations, IT has ludicrous amounts of policy power that surpass what any rational person would think should be allocated to it. In particular, Yahoo!'s IT organization kept Blackberry's as the Mobile Platform of choice, for a company whose major future growth is going to come from Mobile Consumer usage - far longer than it ever should have. Eventually, though, somebody gets around to knocking heads, and IT typically falls in line...