Steve Jobs - Should RIM (Blackberry) be worried?

Steve Jobs answers the question, should RIM, Research In Motion, be worried? This recording happened in March 2008 before the iPhone App store was created.

[Bamboodium]

Anybody here cuz the movie? It feels like watching a time machine, except we also experienced the whole event

[mmario]

Soon there will be a generation who will never know something called a blackberry phone existed.

[HikikomoriDev]

One unique feature of Jobs was that he attempted to not look at much at others and try to think on his own. Yes, both bad and good. just commentary.

[gamersuji]

Steve was very clear that he's not in for the glory or the competition, he was just there to serve and mend a bond between the developers and the consumers.

[tonyduan]

If you think about it, iPhone didn’t directly kill RIM and Nokia. Android did it after they completely redesigned their product when they learned about Apple’s new phone. Yeah, Steve Balmer didn’t see that coming.

[earthwatcher]

RIM : “Hey we got the Storm phone baby! We are relevant !”

[doddsyist]

BlackBerry users had right to be worried. RIM executives made their billions. Pocketed their cash and moved on. Annoyingly there hasn't been a smartphone as good at performing a phones most basic as imperative tasks as a BlackBerry since their demise. So we had to wait for BlackBerry to start making android devices in order to get a device that has all the apps and is good enough at emailing, calling, texting and shortcuts etc. Seems a little too late because most people have nfi whats not good enough on iphones, galaxys or pixels etc when compared to devices that utilise many of BlackBerry's 38, 000 patents that came with the territory of being the original smartphone pioneer.

[jormakovanen]

If someone wants to work in the phone industry should they get a RIM job?

[NikolasKallweit]

I know its a bit late, but yeah they should be worried.

[joetube]

Damn. Steve Jobs was a visionary. He was in his way to turn the world upside down. He moved from the PC to phones and tablets, he was just beginning to take on other industries for sure. Any other device, be it home appliances, motor vehicles and practically anything electricity capable, including digital content consumption, surely he would have at least given a try to change it under a different view.

We have missed all that.

RIP and respect.

[leahevehumphries]

Today's kids will never know what it's like getting caught texting when the lights go off in class and your blackberry keyboard lights up like the sun XD or having to try and press the keys as carefully as you can so the teacher doesn't _hear_ you texting!

[JD-kfki]

Scott was like one step away from becoming Steve's successor.

[truth-.]

They don't have to worry, because they're gone now.

Oops sorry, I searched they're website. They're still around.

[TheGreatLoco]

Even Windows mobile HTC phones were outrageously more advanced than Blackberry.

With iPhone, though very expensive when introduced, it was even more obvious.

And then Android phones joined the party.

What’s astonishing is how Blackberry lasted so long and how quickly Microsoft lost market share.

[designerspen]

always come back to and watch these older apple videos to try and draw parallels with Tesla's current narraitive and they're are just so similar it's crazy

[tedinoxford]

Steve Jobs is a very respectful leader, that is what makes him truly different from others

[joshsworld]

These three built the foundations for our modern phones. Scott forstall (left) and Phil Schiller (right) are Apple OGs that have some of the most interesting Wikipedia articles ever

[snapperjw]

Was that a compliment for Scott at the end?

[CartooonTHAT]

i like that. they focus on their products, business and customer. And RIM would too be focusing on their products. unfortunately it is RIP for blackberry.

[garfolino]

Where is this video clip taken from? I’d like to watch the whole thing