I think the mobile revolution (in many ways) can be compared to the internet
revolution. The early days of the internet have seen defacto and definitive web
sites and attitudes evolve and refine themselves as technology and human
adoption advance. In other words, never say never about anything to do with the
technology arena – I certainly do understand your position and attitude with
the current state of RIM, however, you appear to be looking forward by looking
backwards. i.e. basing the future (of RIM) on the past mobile landscape.

I’ve often likened the overhyped ‘app’ media focus with the early 90′s CDROM
obsession… remember the days where anything in a nice fancy box that
contained CD’s would sell off th shelf? Well, I can tell you first hand – I’ve
purchased a whole whack of those (misleading) CDROM Applications in the 90′s
and I’ve done the same with the (overhyped) mobile Apps in the (late) 2000′s.
The one thing I’ve found which is dramatically different is the price.
Pointless $25-50 spent in the 90′s vs $1-5 in the (late) 2000′s… The analogy
continues with CDROMs changing into DVDROMs back then and today the Mobile
‘Apps’ will change into HTML5 apps. We see this already starting to make waves
and generate excitement in the developer community – but more importantly, the
entire landscape is changing… increasing numbers of consumer products are/and
will become web-enabled and that means they will be able to run HTML5 apps.

The traditional approach to enabling content and providing distraction through
platform specific apps will (start to) die in 2013 and more and more developers
will focus on a common development platform – HTML5.

RIM is committed
to providing a great HTML5 experience, this is why I believe RIM has a future.
BTW – are you going to speak about your hands on BB10 experience soon?