Could Research In Motion simply fade away to nothing?

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While Apple has blazed through the consumer market, however, analysts say Chief Executive Steve Jobs will have a lot of work to do to wrest the corporate market away from Research In Motion, which dominates the market for high-end business phones.

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While Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) has blazed through the consumer market, however, analysts say Chief Executive Steve Jobs will have a lot of work to do to wrest the corporate market away from Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ), which dominates the market for high-end business phones.

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Chopra explains that being in touch with the this kind of consciousness is what sports players, ballet dancers, and musicians experience when they enter a moment of utter connectedness with their art: the mind is clear, the world appears in slow motion, and all internal dialogue fades away.

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Both Sony and Microsoft included their own take on motion sensors (with Microsoft doing completely away with the controller when it introduced the Kinect) and now Sony and Microsoft are likely to introduce their own take on second screen experience with the new consoles they will unveil this year.

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Leap Motion impressed attendees by enabling people to throw away the mouse and control computers with natural hand gestures, allowing users to literally mold their ideas on the screen.

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But the reader comes away convinced that the forces set in motion, for good and for ill, in 1979 set the stage for the world we see today, in ways that were hard to see at the time.

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Then, in slow motion, little boys emerge from the back, push the adults away, run toward each other and warmly hug.

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With the Blackberry, Research in Motion was able to attach itself to a different customer and drive demand away from the traditional carrier relationship.

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In short, he concludes, there has been a massive valuation shift to Apple and away from the likes of Dell, Nokia and Research In Motion.

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