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This sneaky trick lets attackers smuggle malware onto your network. Missouri apologizes to k teachers who had SSNs and private info exposed. You agree to receive updates, promotions, and alerts from ZDNet. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to receive the selected newsletter s which you may unsubscribe from at any time. Promises of critical software updates for the tablet went unfulfilled. Needless to say, the ailing company is desperately in need of a jumpstart.
If RIM can get enough devices in the hands of consumers to produce a demand for software, developers could be convinced to start creating apps for the platform. When in doubt, hold a fire sale. Mike is a Wired. He's written on a number of different tech topics, ranging from startups to social media. Staff Writer Twitter. The Storm, released in late It was awful, and left RIM behind in the game. So when the iPad came out, RIM decided to get ahead of the game. Unfortunately, it didn't get ahead in the right part - the "persuading people to buy your product rather than someone else's" part.
Not to mention the "building your product on a just-in-time basis rather than optimistic three-month forecast" part. The PlayBook isn't substantially worse than many of the 7in Android tablets out there, apart from having even fewer apps. But there's no reason to buy it ahead of an iPad, if a tablet is what you want. Tablets are turning out to be money-munching monsters for some companies. At least when companies went into making would-be iPod killers it didn't murder them like this. The stock market has completely lost patience with, and faith in, RIM.
We'll remind you of what Horace Dediu uses as his rule of thumb for the mobile business : if you make a loss, even for one quarter, then you never come back to your former position in terms of market share or profit.
So far it has held true across more than a dozen companies which have either exited the phone market or lost their independence after falling into loss. The prognosis for RIM, therefore, isn't happy. Stock price on its own doesn't mean anything to the company; it doesn't affect how much money it has in the bank, nor in the short term how easy it is to get money, nor how good or bad its products are.
The stock price is just a guess at how much money the company will make in the long term. That's somewhere between 21 quarters based on the profits in June-August and eight quarters based on the profits in December-February. Either way, the numbers say RIM isn't long for this world if it doesn't shape up. The PlayBook?
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