Mr. Heins (new RIM CEO) says "we are undertaking a comprehensive review of strategic opportunities including partnerships and joint ventures, licensing, and other ways to leverage RIM's assets and maximize value for our stakeholders."

Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying stuff like "maximize value for our shareholders"?

Steve was obsessed with providing a user experience that blew people's minds and designing products that changed the world. And he did, repeatedly.

RIM's leadership has no vision, and so there is no chance they will survive.

Interestingly, I bet there were people saying similar things about Steve Jobs when Apple was going down under and when he returned.

It's easy to hate on anyone by comparing them to someone phenomenally successful. But even Steve Jobs had his share of epic failures. And most certainly, doing things Steve Jobs style is not the only successful way to build a company as your post seems to imply.

My point is that focusing on "maximizing shareholder value" instead of innovation and customer experience is what got RIM in trouble in the first place. It seems no lessons have been learned.

"maximizing shareholder value" is the purpose of a public traded company, including Apple.

Jobs did it by out-innovating, out-marketing and other stuff. RIM CEO is trying to do it his way. (which may or may not be successful.)

That's code for "we're talking to other companies about what we have that we can sell them."

The best deal is to sell the enterprise integration bits to Microoft, or the whole company to anyone who wants it, if there is anyone.

Yeah, it almost sounds like a fire sale.

If you look closer, your quote is 'stakeholders', not shareholders. The meaning is a bit different, but perhaps Steve still wouldn't have said it.

Clickable: http://www.justgiving.com/steven-whyley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Iy82YV21k&feature=youtu...

Is it a print magazine or website? Website is less risky obviously. Going the print publication way will surely lead you to financial failure and starvation.

I say do it, but be okay with not having all the answers right now, but that other revenue opportunities related to your startup will likely manifest themselves.

Political concentration camps in North Korea. I'm serious.

Mind you, I do have an idea for this. If anyone is interest (even you Ben), hit me up on email.

Well... there's no email to hit you up by on your profile

I wonder if introversion/extroversion are umbrella terms for a wide range of meshing cognitive and personality traits.

For instance, we all default to a particular attentional style. To use the actor Woody Allen as an example, he has a classic narrow-internal attentional style (introspective, perhaps slightly neurotic) which suggests he's an introvert, yet these traits works for him socially on many levels.

But is he introverted? I think he and many people transcend that label.

More on Attention Theory: http://rejectiontherapy.com/control-your-reality-like-a-tv-s...

The Internet (the iPhone automatically capitalized it for me) is kind of like air - it's ubiquitous, and yet we don't see the word air capitalized.

Yeah, 'air' is another word that's sort of nebulous about its extent.

"The bug in the jar is running out of air" c.f. "Don't pollute the air" (i.e., Earth's atmosphere)

Yes, but "air" is not really comparable, is it? You'd never find someone saying "if we remove the wall from this room, we can make an air", or "you have your air, I have my air, and we should connect them to the Air".

There can be (and are) multiple internets. Hundreds, thousands of internets. There is only one Internet. The people who decide the nomenclature of the technology should be the network engineers who have the knowledge to build it. People who argue for "internet" don't seem to understand how internets work.

Forgot vs root.

The design and explanation of the service is fine. I understood right away what you were offering.

I definitely need an about page with contact info, and some hint of price. More info required before I could go ahead with this.

I actually really like the idea. What's the pricing structure like?

I voted this story up because I want somebody to kick Salesforce's ass.