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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."

2 of 94 comments (clear)

  1. How about a partnership with Microsoft? by erroneus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That oughta bring out INSTANT success right?

    (muhahahaha!)

  2. Economic Side of Blackberry by Fucko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you pay a fixed amount for a month and then you can send all the emails you want or each email you send cost you a few cents? Can you send SMS for free too?