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The Complete History of RIM

Posted by timothy on from the first-there-were-the-dinosaurs dept.

museumpeace writes "I enjoyed reading Alex Frankel's thorough Tech. Review article on the luck, persistence and shrewdness that took RIM's proprietary mobile e-mail technology from presumed small niche product to the must-have blackberry that so many use today. Although the technology at the heart of the product was developed in 1989, it took years of further development, the lucky break of GPRS supplanting Mobitex, and the business smarts to jump on their first-mover advantage and the daring to partner with giant Nokia who could have swallowed RIM. Its a great example of how to succeed by carefully making a defacto standard out of a good proprietary technology."

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  1. You'd think by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could find a better name for it.

    All this talk of mobile RIMming and Nokia swallowing RIM just sounds a bit icky.

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    "It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
  2. Not to mention... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The explosion of RIM jobs and how it lead to an increase of black berries...

  3. So are RIM good guys? by Salk · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about Nokia?

    I know M$ is bad and GNU/Linux good beyond that I get a cluster headache.