http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-files-105-page-patent-lawsuit-against-avaya/
They no longer innovate, they're now litigating. Just like SCO did when they started suing everyone with pockets that used linux (including their own customers).
RIP BlackBerry. While I'm not a fan of their products, I do like to see competition in the market place. In the smartphone market only Apple and Samsung make money on the hardware, some of the other manufacturers like sony and lg have other products that bring up their profits and not making a huge profit doesn't mean the end of the company. RIM only has the their automotive (not sure how many manufacturer's are using them), phone hardware (with some patents) and some software and I think some people have lost trust in the company with the fact that they allow governments access to their backend servers to spy on the people using the RIM servers to communicate. Since moving to android there isn't really anything to differentiate their phones from any of the other android phones other than the phones with a keyboard for the people that have to have a physical keyboard.
Hopefully this isn't the end of BlackBerry, though I can see them dropping phones all together and focusing on money making things, maybe they can get into the home automation market like nest, get themselves into fridges, stoves, thermostats and light fixtures.
They no longer innovate, they're now litigating. Just like SCO did when they started suing everyone with pockets that used linux (including their own customers).
RIP BlackBerry. While I'm not a fan of their products, I do like to see competition in the market place. In the smartphone market only Apple and Samsung make money on the hardware, some of the other manufacturers like sony and lg have other products that bring up their profits and not making a huge profit doesn't mean the end of the company. RIM only has the their automotive (not sure how many manufacturer's are using them), phone hardware (with some patents) and some software and I think some people have lost trust in the company with the fact that they allow governments access to their backend servers to spy on the people using the RIM servers to communicate. Since moving to android there isn't really anything to differentiate their phones from any of the other android phones other than the phones with a keyboard for the people that have to have a physical keyboard.
Hopefully this isn't the end of BlackBerry, though I can see them dropping phones all together and focusing on money making things, maybe they can get into the home automation market like nest, get themselves into fridges, stoves, thermostats and light fixtures.