WATERLOO (Ontario) - in an interview of rare last week, Mike Lazaridis, one of the two leaders of Research In Motion, was the one asking questions:
"Why people don't appreciate our profits." Why people do appreciate our growth? Why people do not appreciate the fact that we have spent the past four years is going global? Why people don't appreciate that we have 500 carriers in 170 countries with products in almost 30 languages?
It is wrapped with "I do understand why there is this negative sentiment, and I just do not have the time to confront." Because ultimately, what I learned is that you just have to prove it over and over and over again. ?
Mr. Lazaridis may point to the numbers back up to his defence frustrated R.I.M., manufacturer of the BlackBerry, the phone of choice at the White House and a global totem of connectivity. In its last financial year, the company, which is based here, shipped a record phones 52.3 million — an increase of 43% in the previous year - and his income in the fourth quarter of $ 924 million exceeded forecasts.
Nevertheless, as R.I.M. prepares to present its first Tablet PC on 19 April, doubts about its future have probably never been greater.
Some analysts suggest that R.I.M. has lost its momentum and can now be oriented downward, like Palm, which in better days, was to rub on the BlackBerry aware then nascent R.I.M. are shackled with an aging operating system, and last year, growth of the market of the undertaking seems less impressive when contrasted with the rise of 93% of Apple iPhone shipments.
In a world where applications have become a major point of sale for mobile devices, the number of applications available for phones BlackBerry is tens of thousands, compared to hundreds of thousands of Android and Apple devices. BlackBerry is always appreciated for their ability of e-mail, between the Government and business clients that rely on security tight devices especially. But it is more common to find people with a BlackBerry e-mail and an iPhone for all the rest.
That led many analysts and investors to question the ability of R.I.M. to hold his own in a market dominated by devices running Google's Android software, as well as of the iPhones and iPads. "They were caught myself", said Jean-Louis Gassée, a former Apple Executive, former President of spin-off of the Palm software and a partner at Allegis Capital in Palo Alto, California "they built a formidable business;" They are people of distinguished circles. They are not idiots, but they behaved like idiots. ?
Jim Balsillie, another Chief Executive of the R.I.M., has vigorously dismissed suggestions R.I.M. was poorly prepared for the evolution of its markets. But he acknowledged that if it had moved earlier to introduce its tablet, BlackBerry manual, it could improved perceptions of the company. And he agreed with the criticism on one thing: many businesses will be struggling to adapt to the industry in fact huge shift to a world of powerful mobile computers.
"No other company other than Apple technology only has successfully passed their platform", Mr. Balsillie said in an interview. "It is almost never done, and it is no more difficult than you think." This transition is where technology companies are dying. ?
Mr. Balsillie, said that the manual will show that R.I.M. has joined Apple by making this gesture. The Tablet is important in part because it runs first operating system the of new R.I.M. Since the introduction of the BlackBerry, a decade ago. That software will also be on the new phones that the company will publish in the coming months.
Richard Tse, a Toronto Cormark securities analyst, said that the new operating system may be also crucial for the future of the R.I.M. as Apple decision to attract back Steven P. jobs in 1996, and its future technology base on the software that he developed at the next computer.
The other historic lesson comes from Palm, the handheld computer pioneer, which is not to accumulate enough Dynamics for its new operating system and has put on sale. Hewlett-Packard bought two years ago and attempts to restart the software in its own Tablet due later this year, called the TouchPad.
The equivalent of the NeXT R.I.M. is another Canadian company, QNX Software Systems, she acquired a year ago. He specializes in highly reliable operating system used, among other things, to control motor systems and aircraft and nuclear reactors.
Jenna Wortham contributed reporting from New York.
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