London, Dec 18 (ANI): The crisis surrounding BlackBerry maker Research In Motion apparently show no sign of lifting, as analysts and commentators are now making their complaints ever more loudly after it emerged that the company has delayed the launch of its new smart phones until late 2012.
Embattled RIM paid a 365 million dollars charge for unsold PlayBook tablets in November, and yesterday it announced that crucial new phones would now be delayed to the latter half of 2012, rather than being out by March.
The new announcement gave more fodder to calls for ouster of RIM's co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, with a critic saying on a blog that the pair should have been "fired months, if not years ago".
According to The Telegraph, at the heart of BlackBerry's problems lie its troubled transition to a new operating system, and in order to compete with the iPhone and with Google's Android phones, the Canadian company needs to rebuild its software from the ground up.
Last month, analyst Ian Fogg pointed out that 'RIM has a history of missing launch dates; that doesn't bode well.'
He warned ominously that "If they fail to ship quality products we'll see a slow decline," and it would appear that Fogg's predictions are already coming true, the paper said.
RIM's share of the smartphone market in the US fell to 9.2 per cent in the third quarter from 24 per cent in the same period last year, revealed a research group Canalys.
According to the paper, increasing numbers of analysts across the board now find one conclusion inescapable-RIM doesn't just need customers, it needs a buyer. (ANI)
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