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"I don't, however, sympathize with the company that made their decision to go it alone despite overwhelming evidence that there isn't room for another platform."

- I'm confused. They were THE leading mobile platform. So they didn't decide to enter a crowded market. The market got super crowded and they didn't respond well. But I don't understand the "go it alone" unless you mean innovating too late to roll out a new OS that was touch driven vs BB keyboard.




They decided to compete on operating systems well after it was obvious that a 3rd operating system wasn't going to make it. Numerous companies had failed or were failing on that strategy already.


They were ALREADY on first place, what you are saying makes no sense.


Nokia always had a bigger smartphone market share than bb world wide.




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