Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten Heins called a “complex transition” earlier this month, and the latest is that 250 employees of its core R&D and new product testing facility have been let go as of earlier this week
Translation: We probably aren't going to make anything new anyone will want to buy, so why try?
All joking aside, being a Canadian and seeing our homegrown RIM/Blackberry falter so much is a tough pill to swallow. You can't help but think that if they weren't so stubborn about their hardware keyboard when Apple released the iPhone that they would have had a real shot at competing due to their incredible foothold in the market at that time.