RIM announced pathetic numbers yesterday in their earnings call and their stock tumbled 18 percent. Even worse, the company announced that their BlackBerry 10 devices will not be released until the first quarter of 2013. We already knew that RIM was way behind the curve by releasing BlackBerry 10 devices in Q4 of 2012. With another delay, the company is destined to go down. The once dominant smartphone company will never be the same again as Apple and Google have changed the smartphone landscape for the foreseeable future.
CEO Thorsten Heins says the new launch date is agreeable to the carriers. Right.
Sorry RIM. We love the hardware keyboards but the BlackBerry platform is just too old, too slow, and too far behind. You might as well make a deal with Microsoft at this point because you will never be a dominant player in the smartphone market again. You'll be lucky to be a standalone company 18 months from now.
CEO Thorsten Heins says the new launch date is agreeable to the carriers. Right.
“I will not deliver a product to the market that is not ready to meet the needs of our customers, or provide anything less than an outstanding user experience with the quality I expect a BlackBerry product to have,” he said on the call. “There will be no compromise on this issue.”
Sorry RIM. We love the hardware keyboards but the BlackBerry platform is just too old, too slow, and too far behind. You might as well make a deal with Microsoft at this point because you will never be a dominant player in the smartphone market again. You'll be lucky to be a standalone company 18 months from now.