Research in Motion will reportedly lay off 2,000 of its employees, or about 10 percent of its total workforce, according to a press release issued this morning. The move comes as part of a “workforce reduction” following the company’s rapid expansion which lead to quadruple growth in its team over the past five years.
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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”…
The BlackBerry Storm was a bit of a disappointment, but RIM seem oddly nonchalant about it. First one CEO tells us that duff smartphone software is ‘the new reality’, now his co-boss is chipping in to lower expectations even further.