The author points out each company's profits over the last 10-years (RIM $9 Bil, TiVo -$400 Mil), yet as many have commented, this isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. What would have been more effective would be to give some metrics on how each company did within their own industries. How did RIM do in comparison to the mobile hardware market, as % market share? How did TiVo do within their market industry?
RIM's success can be in part attributed to the explosive growth of the mobile technology industry. Maybe TiVo did great in the DVR/ VCR industry, but that industry just isn't nearly as lucrative.
A better question to answer would have been how did each company do in their industry. Or even better, give an example of a characteristically "hubris" approach of a product in the mobile hardware space, and compare it to RIM's "humility" approach.
RIM's success can be in part attributed to the explosive growth of the mobile technology industry. Maybe TiVo did great in the DVR/ VCR industry, but that industry just isn't nearly as lucrative.
A better question to answer would have been how did each company do in their industry. Or even better, give an example of a characteristically "hubris" approach of a product in the mobile hardware space, and compare it to RIM's "humility" approach.