Introduction
The digital technology embezzles societies more and more. It makes the communication between both individuals and businesses easier. Nevertheless, what kind of feather will be developed and who will be the innovator, telecommunication companies war will never stop. Companies such as Apple, Samsung, Nokia and Blackberry have their own target groups and strive to cover their need and, at the same time, to provide them with something new, innovative, and “cool”. As in most industries, when a company stops its development and does not introduce new products and services, it loses customer loyalty and market share.
BlackBerry is one of the leading providers of business smartphones. However, it does not change it thinking and the new
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The corporate history of the company is not familiar to many as it was for Apple. However, it can be said that both companies have some similarities such as young, innovative founder. According to Alastair Sweeny, the author of “BlackBerry Planet: The Story of Research in Motion”, “Steve Jobs supposedly gets involved in everything. He can drive people crazy…” ( Woyke, 2009), where the similarities end. The first BlackBerry device was introduced in 1999 under Research in Motion (RIM) name. The model was the first innovation targeting businesses and one of the leaders that support email and limited HTML browsing, with a monochrome screen. Ten years ago, the company was one of the ten major players into the U.S. market along with Palm, Dell, HP, and Nokia. In 2013, there are only two companies that decrease their profit but still work hard to reinvent themselves – BlackBerry and Nokia. (Segan, …show more content…
In his article, he mentioned some professionals: lawyer, Research scientist, university professor, mechanical engineer, aspiring investment banker, Fortune 500 salesperson, IT consultant, financial technology specialist who choose the new Passport. As it is cited into the article ““Reading PDFs is great” on a Passport, while the call quality of BBM Voice is “very good”” (Lai, 215). In 2010 ComScore Inc. did a study emphasizing that RIM points out 51.2% of the business smartphones market, while iPhone accounts for 22.7%. Thus, “BlackBerry is mainly for business use and for corporate customers, it is hard to just compared total company sales and not look at sales in specific market segments” (BBinsight, 2010). The figure below also illustrates that 12.10% of business users buy Google smartphones and 8.80% -
Besides, there are always many new entrants enter the market with the flow of labor and capital (Laudon, 2014, pp. 124). Although the requirements for the entry to the mobile market is relative higher than others, the number of new entrants are considerable while customers are more selective. As a result, those companies like the T-Mobile in this case that are lack of competitive advantages will be omitted by customers. As for the substitute, the development of entertainment tools decrease the desire of the mobile phone although there is little instrument can replace the mobile phone
The short product life cycle in this industry requires competitors to continuously evolve. This continual innovation is difficult for new entrants to achieve. Also, existing products, such as Apple’s iPhone, have built brand loyalty and associated switching costs for consumers, which pose as barriers to entry for new competitors.
Joseph Palenchar (2013) noted that “the old days saw BlackBerry’s market share in global smartphone shipments peak in 2009 at 20% and fall to 5% in 2012, marking the company’s lowest level since 2003.” (para. 3) “Increase the chances that BlackBerry can regain some of its lost market share during the make-or-break year of 2013” (para. 9) Revenue is declining because the market is becoming smaller. With Apple, Samsung’s products are growing deeply in customers’ impression, BlackBerry is standing in the behind position compare with those two brands. BlackBerry is not enough strong to attract those Apple and Samsung’s customers to choose its products even they produce the new products.
Primarily, RIM is well known for developing Blackberry, a cellular smart phone that was established in 1984. Blackberry is one of the very few cellular device companies that introduced and supplied people
Apple and Samsung are the major competitors in the smartphone field. We would, like to discuss why they’re leading and conclude which one is better. In the electronic industry these two companies fight are considered as the highest massive ever. They mainly clash for brand image and brand reputation but any consequences regarding this fight, the impact should be faced by both these companies in terms of brand reputation loss and also the loss of huge amount of money over the litigations We would like to discuss the following,
Lazairdis co-founder of Blackberry which was formally known as Research in Motion (RIM) with his childhood best friend and fellow student Mr. Fregin invented the BlackBerry, with the profits made from a re-designed popular game Reach for the Loops. They created a new and so called revolutionary smartphone industry, and built Canada’s largest global tech business. They founded Research in Motion which was a business consulting electronics and computer science that later focused on developing a wireless transmission of data. Wireless data such as emails, text messages, and wireless terminals. Lazaridis and Fregin were later joined by a student from Waterloo University by the name of Michael Barnstijn, in 1969 the three young men were awarded a $600,000 contract by General Motors for creating Research in Motion. Till this day Blackberry is yet to hold Canada’s top tech spot. Lazairdis held many positions including Co-CEO and Co-Chairman from 1984 to 2012 and as well as Board vice Chair and Chair of the Innovation Committee
Patents: After many years of research and development, particularly in the mobile communications market, BlackBerry has a strong patent portfolio. The estimated value of BlackBerry’s patents ranges from $2 billion to $5 billion.4
The purpose of the report is how good BlackBerry run in the radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing industry in Canada in terms of revenues, market share, and the corporation’s Strength and weakness. Also, the report will analyze the BlackBerry’s three corresponding competitors’ market share in the hope of predicting the firm’s future performance.
Research In Motion (RIM) was founded by University of Waterloo engineering student Mike Lazaridis in 1984 who is the current Co-CEO. In 1988 RIM becomes the first wireless data technology developer in North America and the first company outside Scandinavia to develop connectivity products for Mobitex wireless packet-switched data communications networks. 1997 RIM becomes a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. 1999 RIM introduces the BlackBerry wireless email solution, BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software for Microsoft Exchange and signs a supple agreement with Dell. RIM has offices located in North America, Europe and in Asia-Pacific. The corporate structure of RIM consists of co-CEO’s Balsillie, who also holds the position of chairman, while Lazaridis is also the company president. There are two chief operating officers; a chief financial officer; a vice-president, Enterprise Business Unit; and vice-president, Corporate Marketing.
Research In Motion (RIM) is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company that designs, manufactures and sells cellular phones and other communication devices. RIM’s success started in August 1998 when they launched the inter@active pager 950. In 2003 RIM became one of the most recognized brand names with the introduction of their most popular device the BlackBerry. In June 2011, RIM announced that
In this case we will be talking about the company RIM (Research in Motion) and some of the Challenges they faced to protect their Intellectual Property. Research in Motion is best known as the developer of the Blackberry smartphone.
RIM has had a rash of bad press due to failures in its email system as well as its product and management strategy. RIM has suffered two major disruptions of service in 2009 and 2011 that have tarnished the touted reliability standard that has been a standard marketing tool for BlackBerry devices. In 2011 alone, RIM stock dropped more than 50% due to a series of product errors and profit warnings. (Sharp & Prodhan, 2011)
Shakespeare said – „What‟s in a name?‟ Everything..!! BlackBerry – an exotic looking fruit with wine like taste. How did that fruit become associated with terms like business, emails, internet on go? How did BlackBerry – which has become a sort of cult, have its fruity name from? One would think that probably the CEO, Mike Lazaridis or somebody influential from RIM was partial to the seedy fruit. Which “surprise” “surprise” isn‟t True. It‟s got a more logical origin to it. In 2001, RIM
Apple could make future strides in the smartphone industry, if it can figure out a way to steal away some market share from BlackyBerry users. Many business users prefer the BlackBerry to all other smartphones in the industry.
▪ BlackBerry product first launched in 1999 ▪ Wide range of Wireless Service Providers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and all major global providers) ▪ 41 Million units sold in 2009 ▪ 80+ Million units currently in use globally