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"The marketplace has abandoned our business model? OK, we'll just iterate endless new hardware and firmware until everyone leaves or a miracle happens." Its a
by VLM 12y ago
"The marketplace has abandoned our business model? OK, we'll just iterate endless new hardware and firmware until everyone leaves or a miracle happens."
Its a very old story in IT. Some companies survive it, most don't.
- seunosewa 12y agoIt's very difficult to replace an obsolete business model that was widely successful with a new one that is equally successful. Such success is rare enough that achieving it twice in a row requires a lot of luck or really incompetent competitors (which Android & iOS were certainly not!)
- rbanffy 12y agoBlackberry had very successful corporation-friendly software. They could try to fight BYOD, enter the BYOD fight with decent phones or they could embrace BYOD and make their server software compatible with Android and iOS and let corporations go on with unchanged processes.