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Re:RIM's reply to jammur's open letter by pi3832 on Sunday February 27, 2011 @05:53AM (#2267652)
Gah. The corporate-speak vocabulary obliterates any sincerity that may have been been in that letter when it was conceived. It reads like nothing more than "damage control".
Re:RIM's reply to jammur's open letter by kabdib on Sunday February 27, 2011 @12:22PM (#2268263)
The use of the word "challenge" is classic.

A simple, "We've told the X team to get a clue and fix the multiple registration form stupidity by next Friday" would go farther than eight paragraphs of borderline marketing bilge.

Of course, these are not the /actual/ problems at RIM. The real problems are the mindset and processes that allowed this type of stuff to happen in the first place. They have a long row to hoe to get their house in order, since it's probably fractally bad in there.

I should add: I was in a developer tools org once (at a certain large hardware company) that had nearly exactly the same problems: Expensive tools, confusing processes, and probably worse support than RIM has. Over years of trying, the underlying troubles were never fixed (but a lot of manager careers were lofted on internal promises and new "team initiatives").

Re:RIM's reply to jammur's open letter by Stormbringer on Sunday February 27, 2011 @06:57AM (#2267700)
To be fair it was probably heavily vetted/chewed on by the weasels in the legal dept first.