RIM’s Year of Misery ⇥
Brian X. Chen has summarised RIM’s 2011. In that time, their share of the US smartphone market dropped to 10 percent, they experienced a massive service failure in October, shipped an unfinished tablet (of which they took a write-down of half a billion dollars), lost the trademark to the name of their operating system and have delayed the introduction of the devices that may have the last shred of hope of improving their situation.
Other than that…