Of course it is a problem. But it is not the end of the world. They have laid out a transition to QNX-based phones, and in the middle of than transition right now. Did they make mistakes last year with the pre-7 phones (underpowered, stagnant interface)? Yes they did, and this is a major part of their drop in overall market share.

This does not seem unrecoverable to me though.

The market has grown. Subscribers are actually up, as well phone sales.

Abandoned is a bit melodramatic. But how about Apple? Or Unix? Or Nintendo?

RIM has a bad quarter, and the glee at which people post its demise is amusing. Look at the actual financials, their assets, and the market share. Adjust for an expanded market and you get less of a 'doom and gloom' picture.

And the Playbook is a fine piece of kit - and will only get better when the NDK is released. Could it have more apps? Yes. Is there anything wrong with the device itself. No.

A week away from the RIM earning call, and you are spouting about the ability of the iPhone to use flash.

I swear the lot of you are barely classified as functionally retarded, and don't realized when you are being used.

This article should have been tossed in the bin.

Twats.

You keep using that quote randomly. You are either regurgitating a meme, or just got Netflix.

If it where anyone else putting this out, it would be heralded as the second coming of the music generation. Since it is RIM, the knee-jerk reaction is to slam it, without understanding what it is.

Critical analysis is lost when it comes to RIM

They have not provided the governments with the ability to snoop on their citizens communications.

Like Lazaridis, I tire of this ignorance.

They didn't. Prove it or shut up.

Steam came before Apple iStore. So did Games for Windows Live.

You're right, screw the Apple iStore.