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Scoble: RIM in Death Spiral

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    Tech blogger Robert Scoble on the future of the BlackBerry maker.

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Morning looks like black remake a rim circling the drain join in the company from San Francisco Robert Scoble with rackspace dot com.

That's kind of extreme languages and in the mean they're going down the tubes that are gonna disappear that now on death watch.

You know think that just gonna go out of business completely Research in Motion to.

And not this not soon I mean big companies take a while to -- but they're in trouble.

-- that developers I mean.

If you look at my phone I have lots -- lots of apps on my done this is weight consumer they're deciding on when they go in the stores to buy -- system now.

They look at how many out for available and android has them.

IOS -- them but Blackberry is being ignored by the apt developers and sit in the San Francisco area and that.

App developers are restrained developing out for -- system that now they have the developer windows firm Windows -- 7.

And they're in they're deciding to stay -- from black.

Very -- -- in the recent past we've seen Netflix.

Tumble I mean chronically we've seen Research in Motion.

I'm we've been saying all was on death watch and could this kind of thing happen to any tech company.

I'm thinking about a FaceBook -- and apple only -- totally immune from this kind of chronic immediate decline.

With some are you know.

IBM has weathered a lot of storms -- remember in the eighties everybody is saying no IBM getting out of business because -- -- -- -- and stuff like that.

-- -- You know some some companies are big enough to weather a huge number of storms might stop is probably one of those companies -- -- 1415.

Billion dollar businesses to -- laughed and through a lot of this stuff but really doesn't have that rim doesn't have -- another cash cash cow that's.

-- -- -- a big time before we get to Chris -- got a question I would say this Research in Motion is a takeover target period and ago when -- you agree with that.

I agree to OK -- -- Robert in many ways that -- Microsoft -- still controls the operating system environment with PC's.

The -- controls the Indiana.

Enterprise inviolate companies and the united we get a Blackberry here at fox and Tracy I know we get it because Tracy's -- going off like fifty times as we go to don't.

-- but Robert.

Yeah that.

The problem -- that's changing very very quickly that's -- they're -- they're going down.

Enterprise I accept it for -- executive from General Electric you've been you've gone android -- I.

-- -- -- -- So aren't you know this is not a huge this is a huge shift going on here and that's why they're there in that -- spiral and I don't see them pulling out they don't -- -- -- Allowing interest do you use the expression death spiral I said deaths what you said death spiral -- that it is not have a good member -- -- could -- -- Robert -- thank you very much indeed.

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