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kwassa

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2. RIM is dying. Technology changes, and it can kill very large corporations that don't have it.

Tue May 29, 2012, 08:57 PM

May 2012

All the moves made by RIM corporate heads reek of denial about the transformation smartphones have made to the world. They are already dead, supported by only their installed base in government and corporations that is quickly sinking.

I worked for the second largest computer corporation in the world. 120,000 employees around the world. It no longer exists. Digital Equipment Corporation. It also was once state-of-the-art, but the art moved on, and it didn't.

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