RIM CEO On What Went Wrong

AZA43 writes "After releasing some very ugly financial numbers in late June, BlackBerry-maker RIM went on a media blitz to downplay the significance of its latest earnings and counter increasingly negative media attention. ... But a new Q&A with BlackBerry chief Thorsten Heins offers a unique take on what exactly went wrong at RIM — Heins blames the company's downfall [partly] on LTE in the U.S. — and he actually seems genuine in his answers." A peek into the mind of RIM's upper management.

Comments

He's not *that* honest

[Rogerborg]

I'm curious why you decided to take the helm at RIM?

Surely it should be: Money, Al. Huge, heaving, throbbing piles of money, more money than you'll ever see in your entire life, more money than you can possibly imagine.

No matter how much of this festering dinosaur I have to carve off and throw to the dino-wolves, there will still be more than I can eat, and I'm going to gorge myself on its rotting corpse until we're down to the lips and asshole.

Re:Instead of phones, RIM is now selling jets

[Anonymous Coward]

I just read RIM has sold one of their corporate jets [theglobeandmail.com] in order to stay afloat. That's pretty desperate.

Yes.

Clearly, RIM should have kept all the corporate jets and ask for a government bailout, the same way GM & Chrysler did.

RIM would get bonus points if they actually flew on their corporate jets to go and ask for a government bailout, the same way GM & Chrysler did.

Re:Instead of phones, RIM is now selling jets

[ctrl-alt-canc]

In a related news, to keep the company afloat, corporate jets were replaced with hot air balloons.

Re:Apple happened

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

I would have thought just the opposite. Any doof can set up an active synch device, but it takes truly l33t skillz to keep a BES environment running. When the PHB's Blackberry goes down, Only You can fix it. BES makes you key personnel. Without it, you're just head count. :-)