Innovate or Die: Which Companies Have It (RIMM)

Innovate or Die: Which Companies Have It

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In today's edition, Austin discusses one of the business mantras that has manifested itself in the success and destruction of many household names: Invest or die. It sounds so simple, but history has shown companies to be notoriously unwilling to let go of their legacy brands, and that attitude quickly proves to be their downfall.

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Report this Comment On February 12, 2012, at 3:29 PM, InfoThatHelp wrote:

Research In Motion cannot innovate. Whereas Apple's iOS was invented by Steve Jobs's Next Computer as a purebred Unix variant, Android is a Linux variant developed by Android for the OHA. Windows Phone is developed by Microsoft for mobile devices. All of these innovations are envisioned, designed, developed, and grow upon the organizations which spawned them into the mainstream forces they have become.
QNX on the other hand, was developed in Ottawa back in 1980, recently acquired by Research In Motion which is not known to be a innovative company, but a business email pager turned phone manufacturer for meeting very basic rudimentary email and some texting needs. Rim is having morbid failures with QNX as Rim tries in vain to glue QNX with the hodgepodge of desolate and disjoint Rim artifacts. The QNX Playbook still does not run BBM nor native BES connection, and even when it does, poses a non-innovative old fashioned me-too in a sea of Android, Windows, and wild garden flavor hardware which have nothing to do with innovation.
Apple, on the other hand, is taking artificial intelligence out of the labs into the Apple Siri in making the Apple machines the best any machine can be to human beings now able to listen and talk just like English or other fluent human language beings. Apple's Siri is examplary innovation the world should get up and follow, not like Research In Motion which is still dreaming of staying with the passé statusquo.

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