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RIM

We have covered the story last week about the RIM open letters and my colleague's Klint Finley's three suggestions about how RIM can survive. And then there was a story by Chris Nerney in ITworld talking about how key developers are ending their support for Blackberry, including Seesmic and others.

But one of the more surprising factoids to come to light was that RIM has three billion dollars in cash. So I thought I would ask some of my readers what they should do with this hoard? I got some interesting answers.

Several felt it was too late to do much to turn around the company's fortunes. "That's the big problem with being successful, you tend to forget how to innovate. Any new product has problems being as successful as your last success. Apple is one of the few that did not get trapped (yet) in that problem (after Scully)."

 

To read the full, original article click on this link: What Should RIM do With its $3 Billion?

Author:David Strom