[badclient]

Interestingly, I bet there were people saying similar things about Steve Jobs when Apple was going down under and when he returned.

It's easy to hate on anyone by comparing them to someone phenomenally successful. But even Steve Jobs had his share of epic failures. And most certainly, doing things Steve Jobs style is not the only successful way to build a company as your post seems to imply.

[squadron]

My point is that focusing on "maximizing shareholder value" instead of innovation and customer experience is what got RIM in trouble in the first place. It seems no lessons have been learned.

[random42]

"maximizing shareholder value" is the purpose of a public traded company, including Apple.

Jobs did it by out-innovating, out-marketing and other stuff. RIM CEO is trying to do it his way. (which may or may not be successful.)