When was rim developed

Time magazine honors the phone as Invention of the Year. In Pic: BlackBerry devices. October - RIM passes 10 million subscribers. News of a China distribution deal boosts shares, making it for a time the most valuable company in Canada by market capitalization.

November - Google's open source Android platform is unveiled. It launches in October May - RIM introduces the Bold, a major redesign and still one of its top-tier products. The new model matches the resolution, but not size, of Apple's iPhone screen. The screen uses a tactile feedback technology known as haptics, allowing a user to click down to select actions. The model bombs. June - Apple announces and releases iPhone 3GS. In Pic: BlackBerry Storm. In same month Apple launches iPhone 4. February - Nokia, the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume, abandons its Symbian operating system to form alliance with Microsoft Corp.

March 2, - Apple unveils iPad 2 and ships it later in the same month. In Pic: The Astonishing Tribe. Early reviews pan the tablet for lacking core BlackBerry functions such as email and organizer functions. BlackBerry sales were soaring, even with the technical problems, with subscriber growth up 70 per cent to 36 million by the end of Despite the setbacks, the BlackBerry image appeared to emerge unscathed.

Rumours swirled around the industry that trouble was afoot. In September , the co-CEOs showcased the new product for the public but waited another six months before unleashing it to stores. By then it was too late, the tablet market had already been cornered by Apple and reviews of the PlayBook harshly criticized its lack of connectivity to popular BlackBerry functions like email and instant messenger. Within months the foundation of RIM started to crumble as it repeatedly missed its own revenue and earnings targets.

In June , the company slashed 11 per cent of its workforce, or 2, jobs, to keep its cost in line. A stark reminder of its fragility came in October when a worldwide four-day outage left BlackBerry users again without the use of the device they had come to rely on. The anger from its loyal users was heard loud and clear, and Lazaridis emerged from days of silence to apologize and tell users the company had let them down.

In December , the company reported that profits tumbled more than 70 per cent, affected by a big charge from sales discounts it was forced make on PlayBook tablets. RIM, once a symbol of Canadian success and innovation, had become awash in its own troubles.

Sweeny recalls visiting a group of developers, who he considered BlackBerry fanatics, while doing research for his book in They were writing programs for Apple and starting to write for Android.

Numerous acquisitions were made by RIM throughout and to beef up its stable of technology, Long said. That included Ottawa-based QNX Software Systems, whose technology became the basis of the new operating system, and Astonishing Tribe, the Swedish company that helped develop an early user interface of the Android operating system.

But the acquisitions came too late, and by late some investors were calling for its leaders to resign. The approach was a last-ditch effort to revive the company, but it has also thrown the BlackBerry maker into the most uncertain period in its history. World Canada Local. Full Menu Search Menu.

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