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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The problem with RIM is that it's a company full of engineers, hiring more engineers from Waterloo, etc. There are no great idea people, marketers, industrial designers, etc. For years, Blackberries were the ugliest phones in the world without the features that grabs the attention of the general public. There's really nothing special about the Blackberry anymore (many alternatives to BBM, many phones with physical keyboards). RIM is basically Apple in the 1990s.
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For Oil and Gas companies where the pipeline buys your oil or gas if it's pipeline spec regardless this is a good thing.
For companies that make sales based on customer taste this is a horrible thing.