I have a short position in the stock, not that it matters much in this space, but I have to say that for people who genuinely wish RIM well, the only hope lies in capitalism’s self-corrective mechanisms – the ones other than extinction…. The colossal (you are too kind by half to Jim and Mike, imo) errors of judgment, ones I ascribe to arrogance and “losing touch” and at least one of them being only averagely intelligent, MIGHT lead to someone wading in and “picking up the pieces,” perhaps soon enough to make a difference.

Right now, comparisons to Palm are so spot-on that it must be scary to employees, shareholders, etc. But in this still-recent-Steve-Jobs’-passing period, one does well to remember how much of what is being written about RIM – “days are numbered” and all its variants – WAS SAID about Apple around 10 years back. We all know that lightning doesn’t just “strike once.” Whether the odds of its striking RIM are 1 in 10 or 1 in 1000 is one of the many things I do not know – no point in my guessing. Suffice it to say that it’s against the odds, and those odds are not improved by having not one, but two, “clowns” at the helm. I hate to say it, but if I were a RIM shareholder, I think I’d have a secret wish that they fly together and encounter, literally, stormy weather – stormier than their plane can handle! … As best one can tell with people one has never met, one or both of them is determined to “go down with the ship,” all but ruling out a “control change” that represents the company’s only real hope at this point.