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Greenville, SC P: Please complete all required fields! Invalid Input. Within two years, BlackBerry reached more than 1 million subscribers. The smartphone was in demand at corporate offices around the world, and soon the more casual consumer began to take notice, helping to boost its subscribers to nine million by RIM also secured a distribution deal in China, driving its stock to a level that made it the most valuable Canadian company.
In June , Apple unleashed the first iPhone touchscreen device onto the U. Whether it was a strategic decision or simply coincidence, Apple kept its iPhone far away from the Canadian marketplace for nearly a year, choosing to launch in six other countries first.
They gave Apple a two-year head start. RIM went on the defensive in , releasing a combination keypad and touchscreen device it called the Storm, but the phone was swept up in a flurry of other BlackBerry releases that year. At the height of its hype, the BlackBerry device was splashed across television shows and movies, while then-presidential candidate Barack Obama proclaimed he was a BlackBerry faithful during his campaign.
In , Balsillie launched his third, and most aggressive, attempt to buy an National Hockey League team, with hopes that he could convince the NHL to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Hamilton.
The battle dragged on for months before Balsillie abandoned his dream once again. There were two network outages in less than a year that left BlackBerry users temporarily without their services.
Some industry observers suggested the company could buckle under its own success. 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.
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