Will $100 in Free Apps Make Up for the BlackBerry Outage?

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Last Thursday, as more than three days of worldwide BlackBerry service outages finally came to an end, there was one topic that seemed to be foremost in everyone’s minds: How would RIM compensate its millions of affected customers?

In a conference call announcing that systems were being restored, RIM co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie attempted to avoid the issue, telling reporters, “That is something we are now turning our attention to,” and “This kind of discussion was not the priority.”

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