Ex-BlackBerry employees, partners dish on company’s epic blunders

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ouitpOP2xPpVGbFg5hdEVg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/blackberry-lazaridis-balsillie.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/ex-blackberry-employees-partners-dish-company-epic-blunders-185553877.html)When BGR published the famous open letter from an anonymous BlackBerry executive back in 2011, it was easy for some of the company’s defenders to brush it off as the bitter ramblings of one disgruntled employee. But now Bloomberg Businessweek has gotten a lot of former BlackBerry executives and partners to go on the record about their time with the company and it turns out that realization of the company’s impending collapse was widespread by the time BGR’s letter posted more than two years ago. The first thing that these interviews confirm is something that was painfully obvious to outside observers for years: Namely, that BlackBerry’s senior management didn’t take the threat of the iPhone at all seriously. “I remember



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