Apple needs to wake up before they become the next punch line in jokes like RIM.
Sounds like RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis decided the tablet market is a little clearer than he's been letting on.
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Facebook, for one thing, is not going to spend its new pile of shareholder cash on buying a rickety, crumbling contraption like RIM.
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Looks like RIM might be putting all of its eggs into this redesigned London-basket, which per this leaked roadmap could be yours come Q3.
It looked like RIM had pioneered a new market it would dominate, with its servers squarely ensconced in IT departments and corporate users without option as to what smartphone they would use.
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Even small changes like RIM's shift to optical trackpads instead of trackballs in its new devices should improve profit margins by decreasing warranty costs, UBS analyst Phillip Huang said in an August note.
In that sense, hard cases like RIM are misleading if they lead us to assume that the specter of shareholder activism will no longer haunt the marketplace once the next boom presumably occurs.
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The real hurt was dished out to Windows 7 tablets and "others" like RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, both of whom were cut down to just 1.2 points of share each in the spring.
The few patents that might matter to an Apple, Google, Amazon or Facebook ( FB) do not justify the time and money you would have to spend to get something out of a case study in complete failure like RIM.
However, even a RIM spokesman and Luddite like me would grudgingly concede the iPhone changed everything.
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He'd given the Knicks fits at the rim all night, just like in Sunday's game.
Can a slick new superphone like London put RIM back in the game?
It will be new players who come to rule this market, not previously dominant names like Nokia or RIM, he contends.
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It has been a horrific last few quarters for RIM as it saw rivals like Apple and Samsung eat into its market share while it unsuccessfully tried to enter the tablet market with the Playbook.
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To succeed, Motorola needs to maintain this momentum in the future as well, given competition from bigger and stronger players like Apple, RIM and Nokia that have a wider choice of smartphones and a greater share of the mobile phone market.
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Some big companies like Microsoft and RIM opted to have minimal or no presence on the show floor, so we thought that would shrink the overall content at CES. Oh no, dear readers, if anything it had quite the opposite effect.
She also went to the streets of Baltimore and met people like Skinny "Rim" Davenport, who'd been a pimp in the '20s, and Freddie Green, and friends from all sorts of aspects of Billie's life, and she interviewed them, tape-recorded the interviews, transcribed the tapes, and worked on the book, more or less, for 10 years.
We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running leaked pictures and videos of them for months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year.
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The fight for mobile supremacy is a multi-front war, with increasing competition in everything from smartphones to tablets like the iPad and RIM's forthcoming PlayBook. (Read " Quiet Before the Storm: Intel and AMD Dominate Chip Industry Ahead of Tablet Showdown").
Companies like Microsoft (DOS) and RIM (BB) have made their money on one product which they try and stretch out over the length of the cycle.
Their excellence in hardware is not matched in software and usability, areas in which North American firms excel (think of gadgets like Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry).
It's like there was a lid on the rim, and we couldn't seem to throw it in there.
You might also like to read this account of why RIM is failing through the lack of a strategic options approach.
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"There's a very clear rim of feathers running down the top of its head like a Mohican, all the way along its back, " Professor Benton described.
Places like China, South Africa and the Pacific rim countries, particularly, will adopt the technology eventually, so we could be faced with the prospect of importing fruit into this country in 10 or 20 years' time.
We've heard merger rumors before -- there was some half-baked chatter back in the day that RIM was after 'em -- and it does seem like Palm is at a crossroads.
Yeah, well, get used to the name -- it's just sued RIM, Apple and Palm for violating ten patents on things like detecting the difference between silence and voices, mobile device power management, and altering music to accommodate voices.
Against Ohio State last week, he soared to the rim and swatted a shot so far into the stands it looked like the 4:30 flight to Cincinnati.
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