RIM BlackBerry Bad News Piling Up. Is RIM the Next Nokia?

The mobile device business is a brutal one. Palm was the clear winner in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Now, Palm is gone. Microsoft found its mobile mojo around 2002/2003, was even adopted by Palm, and then lost focus just before the iPhone arrived in 2007. Now, Microsoft is scrambling to produce a winner out of Windows Phone 7 in a last ditch effort. While Nokia is still the world leader in overall phone sales, they don’t have any smartphone story to tell.