Blackberry is facing demotion to the list of pioneering devices that failed to survive, according to analyst firm IDC.

The firm's analysts claims that Nokia and Motorola are finally getting their acts together and have come out with formidable mobile email devices. Mix in the fact that both companies sell millions of mobile phones and have marketing budgets the size of RIM's total revenues, and you understand that it doesn't take a psychic to see a major battle evolving.

29 Sep 2006

If Blackberry fails to maintain its lead, the company will join companies like Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox Parc on the list of trendsetting companies that failed to profit from their inventions.

IBM has the bragging rights of inventing the first hard drive as well as the database, but left the market to Seagate and Oracle respectively. Xerox PARC invented both the laser printer and Ethernet, but allowed HP and 3com to reap the rewards of those inventions. And Bell Labs screwed up big time to make any money from Unix.

At least Blackberry will be in good company.

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