Ex-RIM co-CEO Balsillie offers brutally frank reflections on BlackBerry’s downfall

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While Research in Motion certainly made many strategic missteps over the years, it never really had a shot at going toe-to-toe against Apple and Google in the consumer smartphone wars. Ex-RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie on Tuesday gave a talk at The Empire Club of Canada in which he gave a brutally frank assessment of his former company’s downfall as a major power in the phone industry. RELATED:-Why is BlackBerry still making phones? CEO Chen gives a very smart answer As we learned recently in an excerpt from a new book on BlackBerry called-Losing the Signal, BlackBerry’s downfall really started with the release of BlackBerry Storm in 2008. Balsillie confirmed that the device had a “100% return rate” for Verizon and

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