RIM’s half-CEO Lazaridis walks out of BBC interview

“The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spoke to Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian firm behind Blackberry,” BBC News reports.

“After questioning him about RIM’s new Playbook tablet, he asked a question for BBC Click about RIM’s problems in India and the Middle East, where governments want to gain greater access to the tight security system used for Blackberry’s business users,” The Beeb reports. “Mr Lazaridis responded by saying the question was unfair, and that the interview was over.”

Full article, with video, here.

MacDailyNews Take: Dead company walking – and publicly cracking from the top down.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]

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