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Jan

2012

[Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco

A very pertinent way to look at the shipment of true personal computing devices that includes tablets & smartphones. The traditional PC shipment is stagnating while the portable devices are seeing explosive growth. It is more of a case of market penetration & expansion rather than actual death of the traditional PC.

www.asymco.com/...and-fall-of-personal-computing

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Dec

2011

Daring Fireball: BlackBerry vs. iPhone

All points pretty valid even today, and RIM has pretty much sealed its fate.

daringfireball.net/...blackberry_vs_iphone

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Jul

2011

Inside RIM: An exclusive look at the rise and fall of the company that made smartphones smart

Quite a bit like the railroad vs road transition. Underestimate the customer at your own peril.
"You’d hear Mike Lazaridis unequivocally state time and time again that BlackBerry smartphones would never have MP3 players or cameras in them because it just does not make sense when the company’s primary customers were the government and enterprise."
"RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005"

www.bgr.com/...ny-that-made-smartphones-smart

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You’d hear Mike Lazaridis unequivocally state time and time again that BlackBerry smartphones would never have MP3 players or cameras in them because it just does not make sense when the company’s primary customers were the government and enterprise.
A BlackBerry with a name is ridiculous.
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- There was no three-year plan at RIM.” RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005
- In the corporate world, especially at large companies, the senior executives would buy a BlackBerry as soon as it came out. They would then give their old devices to employees beneath them, and these BlackBerry phones would eventually make their way down through the corporation. This isn’t the case anymore, and now those people that used to receive the hand-me-down BlackBerry devices are asking for shiny new phones.
- “When you hear Mike talk about the latest and greatest, it’s been the same thing for ten years: security, battery performance, and network performance
- the data network fees paid to RIM were definitely the number one cause of heartburn from carriers, and a big point of contention.