Q3 2010 Earnings Call

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@Brian Lipscomb
The Playbook is actually a nice tablet. I found the OS to be very smooth and there were no problems with crashing or lag. I enjoyed the one I owned for about two weeks. I ended up returning it due to the lack of real email (there was a Gmail app that was sort of a viewer for the web version) and the fact that there is no USB mass storage support. Another gripe I had was the almost impossible to press power/standby button. It's a shame they released it too early. It will be hard if not impossible to get people to take a second look at it once the quirks are worked out.
@Frank Guillen
Blackberry OS 10 should come right now, RIM needs something extraordinary, of course, better than the Playbook, it was a flop from day one, why would you name your business tablet PlayBook? Poor name and poor sales, but there is a change for RIM to come up with a whole new mobile idea, they are good, this is not the end of RIM, this is the end of RIM poor performance and poor mobile strategy. RIM is down, but not out yet.
@Laks Sundararajan
You can either die quickly like Lehmann or have a slow painful death like RIMM. We have seen this happen before - Britannica didn't expect their business to disappear, newspapers didn't expect online media to takeover and now the same happening with RIMM. Apple and Google focussed on consumers which changed the enterprise market. People buy into an ecosystem and not a phone and I don't see any incentive to buy a Blackberry now. The question is not how but when.
@Brian A. Quirk
Apple. 1995. Who wants to buy a Mac? Let's not close the book on RIM yet.
@Laks Sundararajan
Honesty rimm doesn't have a Jobs. Even Google doesn't for that matter Brian A. Quirk
@Habibullah Khan
Blackberry 10 a year late? Game over for RIM. How do they get back from this? Of course they will see a sales surge as cheaper models hit emerging markets where their brand equity as a business phone stays relevant. But that's just mortgaging the future to get a decent Present. The CEO comments show how they still think they can turn this around. They are so delusional it's actually sad. This used to be a great company. Now it's a HBR case study on Founder Hubris taking a multi billion dollar company down.
@Khaled Mourad
Unified Communication (Video calling, IM, Data sharing, VOIP) , Social networking, Microsoft Lync could affect RIM business model, I believe they need to be un the Unified communication space.