RIM hasn’t released a smartphone in almost year, and in smartphone world of what have you done for me lately. Yahoo’s CEO tells the media that all their employees most learn all smartphone formats and she doesn’t even consider Blackberry’s smartphones. Naming all the smartphones leaving RIM’s Blackberry off the list. RIM can’t get that BB10 out fast enough.
“We literally are moving the company from BlackBerrys to smartphones. One of the really important things for Yahoo’s strategy moving forward is mobile.”
“One of the really important things for Yahoo’s strategy moving forward is mobile,” she said. “So it was really important that our engineers, our salespeople, really everyone throughout our whole organization really understand Android, iPhones, and, you know, Windows 8 and really get a sense of what’s happening there and how to create an amazing experience… so we decided we wanted to get everyone upgraded to smartphones.”