Meet RIM's new CEO: Thorsten Heins to adjust consumer market focus

2. ibap posted on 23 Jan 2012, 06:34 0 0

I hope they pull it off in some fashion that preserves a really good keyboard. I almost switched to a Blackberry, but at the time I had an Epic 4G and that keyboard, along with the big screen, was the winner. I had almost gone with the Helio Ocean double-slider, when the company folded, but I'd like to see that type of system again.

3. dyson posted on 23 Jan 2012, 06:46 1 0

That guy looks barely 30 years old in the first pic.

4. snowgator posted on 23 Jan 2012, 09:06 0 0

So many built in advantages still exist for RIM: Name recognition, fan base, money reserve, still good market share, and a high profit per handset. But I just do not feel RIM can continue to do both hardware and software development as their company is structured right now. I am cheering for WP to become #3, but I believe it is still BlackBerry's to lose as opposed to Microsoft's to take. Could I see a scenario where Apple and Android are say, 65% of the market and BB and WP are fighting for the rest? Maybe. But RIM is trending down, and WP is trending up, so this new CEO better be reinventing BlackBerry's wheel really, really quick-like.

5. downphoenix posted on 23 Jan 2012, 09:34 0 0

He looks like Michael Cera would look if he was a CEO in a movie

6. jellytime posted on 23 Jan 2012, 10:46 1 1

Is he Swedish?

7. downphoenix posted on 23 Jan 2012, 11:51 0 0

gonna miss those comics of dumb and dumber. Now the question is, which is which?