RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

Re:RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns by btipling on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:08PM (#4035766)

I think there is room for three great smartphone platforms and I hope Windows Phone isn't one of them. So I'm rooting for RIM.

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Re:RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns by mark_story on Monday May 28, 2012 @11:14PM (#4035784)

What's actually wrong with Windows Phone other than it came from MS? From what I've seen of it, its a well designed well executed mobile OS. You can't really say the same of the recent blackberry os releases.

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Re:RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns by btipling on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @03:36AM (#4036405)

Because that's just one more smartphone OS that will never support app development from anything other than their own creator's platform, i.e. Windows and Visual Studio or Mac OS X and Xcode. The world doesn't need this horrible, closed-system, innovation killing, walled gardens crap anymore.

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Re:RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns by mark_story on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @10:59PM (#4041164)

That's a totally fair point. Sadly I think iOS' success just compels other manufacturers to follow suit.

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Re:RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns by josephagoss on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @01:20AM (#4036072)

My girlfriend got a windows phone recently, by far its one of the best mobile operating systems I have ever used. She's hates computers and loves the phone. Microsoft did a good job on the OS.

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