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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.

9 posted on 06/16/2012 9:17:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")

As their financial results are proving, the “secure enterprise platform” business isn’t enough to keep RIM alive as an independent company. Either they open their OS to support Android apps (not difficult to do) or they sell themselves to some larger company like IBM.