Interview with BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie

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Published 2008-04-05
April 1st 2008 interview with Research in Motion's co-CEO Jim Balsillie on CBC's The Hour. RIM is the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone.
All Comments (21)
  • @thuxedo6848
    I'm here for the same reason as the rest of you. The movie
  • @SurferFille17
    WOW I can't believe this was 15 years ago,; how time just flies
  • @tpakyle9099
    How prophetic! "It either goes to the moon or crashes to Earth..." Welcome to Earth, Jim. Subterranean Earth. RIP
  • @lynskyrd
    "The iPhone is really..." - oh boy.
  • @josecarlos11
    Wow no wonder RIM is exactly where they are today!!! This dude is sooo clouded by his status he has no idea about anything...Soo sadd...
  • @rsz90182
    RIM made the big mistake of not eliminating the keyboard to incorporate Android with their encrypted technology. Their CPU and OS combination were horrifically slow. I remember setting up these devices for people and the amount of time it took to reboot one or 50 of them was just such a huge undertaking. They were just like Novell and thought they could take over the world. Jim should have made friends with Steve Jobs and got some tips from him!!!
  • @tuumz
    @ 3:20, The response explains why Blackberry is going down fast....
  • @G_Stalgia
    Weird I just watched the movie.. that's dude was A Dilznick in the movie
  • @tuumz
    @smirkingdevil very true...i was also amazed at his nonchalance about the future of rim or diversyfying
  • @quiet451
    Glen Howerton looking a little aged in this interview.
  • @taxicamel
    November 2023 ....the movie came out, not painting a very pretty picture of Basillie. A recent interview with Basillie and the author of the Blackberry book, ....the delicate questioning of the accuracy of the movie with people preferring to be "polite on camera", very strongly suggests the movie, obviously hyped up to be entertaining, may not have been far off track. Mike Lazaridis was obviously invited to this interview, but did not even respond to the invite. This factor alone is indeed very telling of what it was really like "in the day". .
  • @Inaworldoflove
    He says he wont diversify but now he claims he wanted to give up on hardware and do services
  • @massapower
    Canadian version of STEVE JOBS... Was looking to loathe the "BLACKBERRY" movie, but I ended up loving it... I rarely watch any Canadian Crap, but the main actors like "Glenn HOWERTON", Jay Baruchel & Michael Ironside impressed me .😁👍🏻
  • @smirkingdevil
    @dc619 At its launch, the Playbook required the user to own a Blackberry to have any type of functionality close to that of the iPad 1 or 2. "Apple Sheep" don't usually own a Blackberry, thus limiting the Playbook's sales exposure in the overall market. You should ask yourself whether the people you deem "Apple Sheep" were that way before or after they purchased an iPad or iPhone. The last Mac I owned was the Mac Plus back in 1988. I did not become one of the "Apple Sheep" until the iPhone.