RIM changes the direction of trying to keep up with Apple and Google

Manufacturer RIM BlackBerry phones completely changed the Canadian leadership: their positions lost Mike Lazaridis Founder Jim Balsillie and dividing the Acting Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. RIM will have an executive director - Thorsten Heins, who joined the company in 2007 from Siemens, where he worked for 20 years.

"This is a new era for RIM. Path a bit thorny, we did everything we could - quoted Lazaridis Bloomberg. - Thorsten - the perfect choice, he has all the necessary skills at the right time. "

According to Haynes, with him RIM «should remain in the top three wireless" and strengthen its position in the corporate segment. The company will release a new model of the tablet version of the Playbook and 10 BlackBerry OS, the new leader promised.

The market value of RIM in the past year fell by 77% to 6.8 billion, primarily because of competition from smartphones "new wave" on iOS from Apple and Android from Google. The main competitive advantage of BlackBerry - secure mobile corporate email - eroded in recent years also due to some fault in the company's servers, and in October 2011, customers were deprived of access for a few days. As an additional anti-crisis measures executive and CEO of Research in Motion even reduced his salary to $ 1 a year. Prior to that, the annual salary of each year was 1.2 million.

It was rumored even that RIM sold: a number of media wrote about interest in a Canadian company by the alliance of Nokia and Microsoft. In January, BGR reported, citing an unnamed source, like Jim Balsillie RIM director met with several bidders for the company or its software licenses and the best chance at Samsung. Samsung officially denied not only the fact of negotiations with RIM, but even the interest in this company.