Rui Carmo
Today RIM pulls the plug on BIS and the last remaining traces of the BlackBerry relay/application services, which signals the end of an era in many ways.
As a former Product Manager for BlackBerry (and mobile e-mail) at Vodafone, I used RIM devices for many years and amassed a number of tales that I really should write up sometime.
I still wish we’d had those “I Survived the BlackBerry Storm” T-Shirts done.
It was one hell of a product launch (in short, I persuaded our CMO to only order 200 units for launch and saved us from the utter disaster that launching that device - their iPhone “killer” - turned out to be, and that was only the very tip of the tale…).