From RIM's perspective, ...it's hard to take aim and shoot when a grizzly bear is closing ground and about to eat you alive.

Sometimes you shoot to early and miss, hopefully there'll be enough time for a second shot.

About 30 years ago the polyvinyl record industry underwent a massive shift after the introduction of the CD. Record production jobs were lost, plants in the North East U.S. were shut down but a whole new industry sprung up on the West coast associated with the production of the CD's. Also at that time the cry went up that all the devices that play the CD's are being manufactured off-shore and something should be done to stem the flow. Well that flow is like a tsunami, you aren't going to legislate it away. The ability to survive is in innovation and leadership. One day the innovation leader is Blackberry and the next it's Apple. I could also site many more leadership transitions, ...these are the facts. The delusion is that a politician can say and do something of consequence in these matters.