As hard as it may be to believe, it was just over two years ago that Research in Motion was still considered one of the premiere innovators of the smartphone industry.
Oh sure, the iPhone was considered to be much cooler than RIM’s assorted BlackBerry devices, but it didn’t have the same corporate email capabilities, it was only on one carrier and there was only one model of it. And besides, Google’s Android operating system hadn’t really produced any hit devices yet, so where else could non-AT&T smartphone users go?
Needless to say a lot has changed in the past two years. In this timeline we’ll take a look at how RIM fell from its peak in the spring of 2009 to where it stands today — via redwolf.newsvine.com