Friday, February 10, 2006
Blackberry - Doomed To Repeat Apple's Rocky Road?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 10:00 AM
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=750595&ad=true
"Here's a small company in a technology backwater selling a klugey portable pager to an equally small market. Then it makes a few modifications to its product, and Wham! It has one of the hottest new electronic devices on the planet. Movie stars carry it, corporate tycoons sit through billion-dollar negotiations tapping its keyboard, and even its goofy name, BlackBerry, enters the language as defining an era of wired wheeler dealers."
This is an interesting article that shows some parallels in the Blackberry rise to dominance with the Apple II, Palm Pilot and Atari video game systems, each king in their day, but relatively quickly set aside by late comers with better technological offerings. Will RIM's Blackberry suffer the same fate? It also offers some interesting suggestions for RIM to survive into the next wave of wireless messaging.
"Here's a small company in a technology backwater selling a klugey portable pager to an equally small market. Then it makes a few modifications to its product, and Wham! It has one of the hottest new electronic devices on the planet. Movie stars carry it, corporate tycoons sit through billion-dollar negotiations tapping its keyboard, and even its goofy name, BlackBerry, enters the language as defining an era of wired wheeler dealers."
This is an interesting article that shows some parallels in the Blackberry rise to dominance with the Apple II, Palm Pilot and Atari video game systems, each king in their day, but relatively quickly set aside by late comers with better technological offerings. Will RIM's Blackberry suffer the same fate? It also offers some interesting suggestions for RIM to survive into the next wave of wireless messaging.
