“There’s no question Research In Motion is in the midst of a major transitional period,” Jonathan S. Geller reports for BGR.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, from walking around in fresh Canadian air to swimming madly while circling the bowl.
“The thing is, RIM has always been a company controlled by two people — Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis,” Geller reports. “For all the things that have worked, they have missed the boat countless times and we’re now seeing the results.”
Geller reports, “We have received an open letter to Mike and Jim from a high-level RIM employee (whose identity we have verified), and in an amazingly honest and passionate plea, this letter gives fascinating insights into what RIM must fix, and fast.”
Read the letter here.
MacDailyNews Take: Letters like this often closely precede a company’s implosion. As if DCW RIM needed any more kisses of death.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. – Steve Jobs, June 14, 2005
Related articles:
RUMOR: Beleaguered RIM axes 10-inch PlayBook tablet – June 28, 2011
RIM BlackBerry developers defecting to Apple’s revolutionary Phone – June 27, 2011
Beleaguered RIM slashes PlayBook production plans – June 22, 2011
Beleaguered RIM begins axing jobs in Waterloo – June 21, 2011
RIM half-CEOs: What did you know and when did you know it? – June 20, 2011
Former RIM employee: Company ‘brims with hubris’; ‘culturally blind’ to consumers – June 17, 2011
Beleaguered RIM misses on revenue, announces layoffs – June 16, 2011
BLOODBATH!
Stop using the word beleaguered
MacDailyNews Take: Letters like this often closely precede a company’s implosion.
We’ve seen letters like this at Microsoft. How come they haven’t imploded yet. (OK, so maybe they’re working on it.)
The BGR site has printed RIM’s official response.
So sad, in complete denial…
I’m a bit late with this comment since I have been on vacation, but these open letters and description of company operations sound a lot like a Canadian company I used to work for back in the early 2000’s: Nortel Networks. Same red tape, CYA, and other activities as all these letters describe. You see where they ended up.