Here’s something that RIM will be desperately trying to spin. in an interview with Fortune on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made this comment:
“One of the really important things for Yahoo’s strategy moving forward is mobile. So it was really important that our engineers, our salespeople, really everyone throughout our whole organization really understand Android, iPhones, and, you know, Windows 8 and really get a sense of what’s happening there and how to create an amazing experience… so we decided we wanted to get everyone upgraded to smartphones.”
Ouch.
To her BlackBerry products aren’t smartphones. That’s going to rub a few people in Waterloo ON the wrong way. But other companies are considering products other than RIM. I know because I’m helping some of them to do it. I have several customers who are now in whole or in part using something other than BlackBerries.
It really sucks to be RIM.
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Yahoo CEO Upgrades Employees From BlackBerries To “Smartphones”
Here’s something that RIM will be desperately trying to spin. in an interview with Fortune on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made this comment:
“One of the really important things for Yahoo’s strategy moving forward is mobile. So it was really important that our engineers, our salespeople, really everyone throughout our whole organization really understand Android, iPhones, and, you know, Windows 8 and really get a sense of what’s happening there and how to create an amazing experience… so we decided we wanted to get everyone upgraded to smartphones.”
Ouch.
To her BlackBerry products aren’t smartphones. That’s going to rub a few people in Waterloo ON the wrong way. But other companies are considering products other than RIM. I know because I’m helping some of them to do it. I have several customers who are now in whole or in part using something other than BlackBerries.
It really sucks to be RIM.
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