[Mr. Jeeves]

Several years ago, Nokia was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world when it came to making phones.

That's usually the point where the executive team stops thinking.

Research in Motion is making a similar mistake with the Blackberry - it needs to support Android apps ASAP, but management can't seem to get that.

[pepsionice]

Nokia screwed up about seven years ago in Germany. They had taken advantage in the late 1990s of a German tax credit...moved in, and had a factory there. As the tax credit maxed out...they quietly announced that they’d found a new location down on the Black Sea. Whole operation at the German plant was to shut down within a year. They even had construction going on while secretly holding back on the termination notice. Germans went ballistic after the announcement, and I suspect that they lost about half of their sales in Germany almost overnight. They had never gauged the negativity of the announcement and what it would bring.

[Dr. Sivana]

Research in Motion is making a similar mistake with the Blackberry - it needs to support Android apps ASAP, but management can't seem to get that.

Nope. RIM's remaining strength is in the Enterprise, and in security. These are Android weaknesses. Apple's iOS is also weak on enterprise security, but is strong on app security.

I am contracting at a 3,000 employee state office building that is on Blackberry. IPad support is being added, iPhone is considered. Android will not be considered. Android has a great market position, but it is not RIM's position.