> Rim is doomed because they've fogotten who their core customers were: businesspeople.
In the US. And the US business market is not that big, and considering more people are entering it all the time, it's shrinking fast. Even more so with the iPad making inroads there, which is very likely going to push the iPhone further in it as corporations work on iOS integration in general. RIM is trying to expand into the wider consumer market because they have no choice: if they don't, they will be annihilated as competitors invade their space.
FWIW, RIM never amounted to much in the European business world (apart from the City maybe, but that's not Europe), its sales come mostly from teenagers and young adults as it's the perfect texting line of phones (and in that, TFA is wrong: blackberries aren't good at email, they're excellent at written messages in general)
In the US. And the US business market is not that big, and considering more people are entering it all the time, it's shrinking fast. Even more so with the iPad making inroads there, which is very likely going to push the iPhone further in it as corporations work on iOS integration in general. RIM is trying to expand into the wider consumer market because they have no choice: if they don't, they will be annihilated as competitors invade their space.
FWIW, RIM never amounted to much in the European business world (apart from the City maybe, but that's not Europe), its sales come mostly from teenagers and young adults as it's the perfect texting line of phones (and in that, TFA is wrong: blackberries aren't good at email, they're excellent at written messages in general)