http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/16/419-rim-confirms-down-q3-but-management-assures-us-everything-will-be-fine/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/16/419-rim-confirms-down-q3-but-management-assures-us-everything-will-be-fine/#comment-86660 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:32:01 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/16/419-rim-confirms-down-q3-but-management-assures-us-everything-will-be-fine/#comment-86660 Textbook SHORT.
Almost every Blackberry owner is shopping for the replacement to their phone when their contract expires or they are allowed a free upgrade from their carrier. Go into any Sprint, ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon store and ask the manager what the real scoop is on new Blackberry Sales.
IT departments everywhere are re-tooling for employee owned Androids, and I-phones.
A Pad launch that was akin to the space shuttle Challenger (god rest their souls)
Trouble with Muslim communist Indonesia about security concerns. And they are hanging their hats on the operating system used in the Playbook paperweight and delaying its launch untl late 2012.Seriously, late 2012, thats 20 years in RIM years. Add to that an Ego of upper management that wont entertain a buyout until overtme in the fourth quarter of their existence. Call your broker, get in the PUT or Short and erase this weeks losses that our friends across the pond have handed to us.

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