Are You Afraid of Google? BlackBerry Cofounder Jim Balsillie Says You Should Be | The Walrus

Shortly before ten o’clock on the morning of May 10 last year, Jim Balsillie, cofounder of Research in Motion (rim), the Waterloo, Ontario, company that created BlackBerry phones, took a seat in a conference room across from Parliament Hill. Next to him sat Colin McKay, an executive from Google, the company whose Android operating system was responsible, in part, for BlackBerry’s fall from grace. rim (now BlackBerry) was an industry powerhouse a decade ago...
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