Posted on 04/12/2013 8:08:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Me too.
I tolerated my Crackberry phone but absolutely despise my new (company issued) Win8 phone. I’d trade back in a heartbeat.
The “All Baraq, All the Time” media used to love stories about Soetoro’s Blackberry. A few years later Blackberrys are a damaged brand.
Coincidence?
The most damaged brand in America is “the Office of the President of the United States”.
I don't care for Martha, but her incarceration was wrong.
Her crime was talking to investigators without a lawyer.
Pull Apple insert GM.
It's my read that she was so very arrogant that she pissed off the wrong people.
Classic case of "what goes around." She got what she deserved morally, not legally, as you pointed out.
Cosmic justice for Ms. Martha. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving maven.
She was dimissive. Mere mortals were beneath her notice.
I was not surprised that she ended up in the pokey. She ticked off the wrong people once too often.
I wish her well, though, because I think she paid her price. Time for her to move one.
There is a population of crack berries out there and maybe RIM listened to them too much. They had a great product that met a lot of businesses and government needs, but they lost sight. But more importantly I think they were cursed with being first to innovate.
There is a pattern in technology that dooms innovators in the long run. The prime example is Xerox PARC where the first GUI was invented. Apple and Microsoft OSs both stole from Xerox and are still in the market. Another example is Viscalc and Lotus. Microsoft has this nack of waiting for innovators the do all the hard work. Of course Microsoft came,up with Excel as an original idea.
But back to BlackBerry, they invested hundreds of millions in a NOC that is no longer needed today for secure communications. BlackBerry marketing perhaps thinks that is still a selling point, but any technical guy can achieve the same level of security for tens of thousands of dollars less using off the shelf technology that did not exist when RIM got its start.
BlackBerry has lost its way, just like the Republican Party.
That is what I always heard about her too.
Well put.
Blackberry is from a Canadian company.
I'd rather see cosmic justice for Al Gore and all the other global warming crooks, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Good idea. Gore has/had too many friends to protect him. It's still hard for me to believe how many Americans LOVED him. Yuck.
Gore doesn't even have Martha's talent.
Some of the rudest, most arrogant and condescending people I know are also from Connecticut.
Not a New England WASP, she just played one on TV.
I subscribed to her magazine when she was in prison as a show of support; I also thought the incarceration was wack. But when she publicly bashed Dubya after she got out, I took great pleasure in cancelling my subscription.
I’d agree on Hyundai. Nice car - until you have a problem with it. Maybe more of an issue with the ethics (or lack thereof) of the local dealership. Had an engine problem with one. They hemmed and hawed and fiddled with it off and on six or eight times over the span of months. Finally soaked in that they were stringing it along because the warranty was about to expire. Wasn’t until I threatened to take it to an independent mechanic for diagnosis, and when it showed something obvious and covered under warranty was wrong I’d sue them...viola, next day they had a part on order and it was fixed by the weekend. ($2K plus worth of parts and labor warranty work on it) We sold it within a week. Hyundai may be a good deal or not, but when the only dealership in town is a crook, no thank you.
Apple?!!?
Uhh...no.
Substitute Microsoft for Apple and GM for Hyundai and you have a pretty good list.
Well people would say this forgetting that just two years into Ullmans taking his position the 2008 Financial Crisis hit all retailers hard. Penney's was one of the few who held their own throughout that time...and this under Ullman’s leadership. Since he kept Penney's stable during the 2008 Finacial Crash, while others were floundering, it made perfect sense to bring him back.
Furthermore He had introduced Sephora and other brands at a reasonable rate while customers adjusted. So the plans for Penney's to increase and change their lines had already begun Under Ullman, before Johnson entered the picture.
The major stockholders and board members decided to bring Johnson in to move things along at a faster pace and with “fresh” blood to execute the plans...because he had turned around Apples Retail Stores it was believed he would do so equally as well with Penney's....it was downhill from the start...
Ullman has been less than a week at the Helm and though it will take more than a week, his work is already bringing stability to the employees and the customers.
The stocks always shake at every turn, and the “talking heads” like news pundits take the stage. There is still time to recover the losses, and the customers are already coming back.
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