The two CEO’S of RIM, the creators of the Blackberry phones have today stepped down. Their jobs have been on the knife edge ever since the major blackberry outage last year. The pressure of this combined with Blackberry’s diminishing stake within the mobile phone market has resulted in changes at the top of the Candadian firm.
The co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have both stepped down with immediate effect. They will be replaced by the curretn Chief operating officer Thorsten Heins by next Monday.
Invstors have welcomed this change of strategy, as the firm struggles to compete with the likes of Google and Apple in the growing smartphones market. Blackberry, once every businessman’s best friend, have lost their reputation for reliability and professisionalism. Gone are the days where a businessman would have a “Blackberry” rather than just a phone. The new CEO will be expected to put in a change of strategy to reverse their fairly rapid decline.
Will he manage it?
What does this mean for the smartphone market?
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January 24, 2012
