The Macalope Weekly: Terrible mistakes

16.04.2011
Macworld

Don’t you hate it when you see someone making destructive life choices? You feel like you’re screaming “NOOOOOOOOO!” in slow motion while they proceed to dig themselves deeper and deeper into a hole. That pretty much describes watching RIM this week. Speaking of mistakes, Computerworld makes the fallacious leap that when two people repeat a rumor, it’s confirmed! Finally, while developing for Android may not be a mistake, not also developing for iOS certainly is.

Here we are, practically on PlayBook Eve, and because people keep pointing at them and laughing.

RIM’s co-CEOs in an interview published Monday went on the defensive against critics of their performance in smartphones. Mike Lazaridis didn’t “fully understand” the reactions and instead wanted to steer people to high profits, growth, and international expansion that was taking the BlackBerry to 170 countries.

His counterpart Jim Balsillie argued that market share alone wasn’t the issue and that RIM could thrive in the next five years just by continuing to grow and be successful.