In advance of today’s earnings call, RIM announced that co-founder Jim Balsillie is out at the company he built.
After enduring a few years of shrinking relevance in the smartphone market, RIM punctuated its decline with the simultaneous departure of its conjoined CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. And while this may signal a new direction for the company, it also likely means the stream of moronic soundbytes we’ve grown accustomed to will cease to exist as well.
Promising that “we will have an over-the-air email client to announce very, very soon,” RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie also spoke of the reaction to the PlayBook tablet in the first wave of reviews. Labelling that it wasn’t “fair” reviewers suggested they rushed the tablet out too fast, he also failed to convince the watcher why they should buy the PlayBook.
During an earnings call yesterday, Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance to talk up Apple and talk down just about everyone else. But RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie has a message for those who exist outside of Apple’s “distortion field:”
RIM’s so confident that its upcoming two flagship phones and OS 6.0 will pound the competition into mincemeat, their co-CEO Jim Balsillie has taken to using physics to express his excitement. It better not just be that flip-phone, RIM. [BusinessInsider]
