An article over at Business Insider talks about some news from the past on how RIM saw the Apple iPhone and strongly believed it was “badly flawed.”  RIM execs even tried convincing superiors to go towards devices with better web experiences and larger screen devices but was denied.  At that point in time, RIM only saw secure email and physical QWERTY keyboards to be essential in smartphones.

Look where we’ve reached today.  Thankfully RIM has rolled out many new devices which do compromise to better web and application experience.  They’re not at the finish line yet with the not-so-new hardware now, but they are getting there, and we have a tablet launching anytime soon in the near future.

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