People keep using the expression "great artists" to refer to a company that makes an out-of-date phone that's only popular because Enterprises can turn the camera off and force users to have a 1 million character password that they have to type before every operation.
RIM is not a "great artist". RIM merely does exactly what people with a lot of money tell them to do, and then they charge the people with a lot of money a lot of money. Then they make a lot of money. It's not art. It's business.
what? I wasn't saying RIM is a "great artist" at all, they're terrible. The quote is supposedly from steve jobs.
While I'm writing, my opinion is that the big problem with RIM's tablet is that they didn't think at all about designing hardware that met the enterprises needs, or as you say "people with a lot of money". If they did, they would have made a tablet great at capturing employees thoughts and ideas. My opinion is that this requires two things:
1) A tablet that handles multitouch AND pen input very well (i.e. get n-trig / wacom hardware/licensing for the touchscreen)
2) A tablet that doesn't have a small 7 inch screen. The screen size equivalent to a stenographer's book is 10 inches. It's great for writing down lists of things down.
RIM is not a "great artist". RIM merely does exactly what people with a lot of money tell them to do, and then they charge the people with a lot of money a lot of money. Then they make a lot of money. It's not art. It's business.