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Gah. The corporate-speak vocabulary obliterates any sincerity that may have been been in that letter when it was conceived. It reads like nothing more than "damage control".


The use of the word "challenge" is classic.

A simple, "We've told the X team to get a clue and fix the multiple registration form stupidity by next Friday" would go farther than eight paragraphs of borderline marketing bilge.

Of course, these are not the /actual/ problems at RIM. The real problems are the mindset and processes that allowed this type of stuff to happen in the first place. They have a long row to hoe to get their house in order, since it's probably fractally bad in there.

I should add: I was in a developer tools org once (at a certain large hardware company) that had nearly exactly the same problems: Expensive tools, confusing processes, and probably worse support than RIM has. Over years of trying, the underlying troubles were never fixed (but a lot of manager careers were lofted on internal promises and new "team initiatives").


To be fair it was probably heavily vetted/chewed on by the weasels in the legal dept first.




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