
At BlackBerry HQ in Waterloo yesterday, I sat down with Research In
Motion CEO Thorsten Heins, and the company's newly appointed CMO, Frank
Boulben. We covered a lot of topics, including the ramifications of BlackBerry 10 launching in the first quarter of 2013 vs. the previous target of Q4 2012.
The CrackBerry community, myself included, has not been very forgiving
to RIM on this delay since word of it came out via the company's recent
earnings announcement. After speaking to both Thorsten and Frank, I have
a much clearer understanding of why the decision was made to wait. Not
only do I understand it now, but I get it. From a...