Here’s a pair of nice anecdotes from the Department of Doh! – RIM thought the iPhone would bomb and bomb hard. According to a fairly extensive Reuters report (see the PDF), RIM was convinced that the iPhone was “so badly flawed from day one” and that “users wanted great batter life, great security, great mail handling, minimal network use and a great keyboard experience”…
There’s more! RIM execs tried to tell founder Mike Lazaridis that they needed to make a very iPhone-like phone back in 2005, two years before it made its debut. They suggested a web-enabled device with a larger screen but he slammed the idea preferring to focus on the twin pillars of Blackberry’s earlier success: good keyboards and excellent email. Still, that Blackberry PlayBook‘s nice isn’t it?
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