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D: Dive Into Mobile–The Full Interview Video of RIM's Mike Lazaridis

As promised, All Things Digital will begin publishing the full videos of the interviews we did last week at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco.

The first extension of the event, it produced some very newsy sessions. We’ll be posting them all week and next.

That includes this corker with Research in Motion’s co-CEO and co-founder Mike Lazaridis (pictured here).

In it, he did not quite answer our questions about why RIM’s flagship BlackBerry seems to have missed a step in the highly competitive smartphone wars compared to its new and more innovative rivals, Apple’s iPhone and Google Android.

While he did make a global argument, Lazaridis also seemed to be putting his big bet on the new PlayBook tablet the Canadian company is launching, as well as RIM’s reputation for security and reliability.

Here’s the full video of the interview, which Lazaridis did with Walt Mossberg and me:

Up tomorrow: Google’s Android kingpin, Andy Rubin!


comments so far. Add yours.

  • Web2nr

    I hear a lot of, “Look at all we’ve done,” and not much, “Here’s what we’re gonna do.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/tortillaman Nicholas Guyadeen

    exactly i think that if blackberry doesn’t start to upgrade to faster chips better display’s and its already showing that 47 percent of blackberry users say there going to switch platforms

  • Anonymous

    Ummm… I heard a lot about what is coming out. He talked about the future and the strategic decisions RIM is making.

    He also talked on history which was to bolster his discussion about having the R&D and skills to build products in-house.

  • Anonymous

    id like to be able to watch the video on a size larger than 2″
    please enable fullscreen support. i notice the video has a lot of aliasing so the video is a higher resolution, just let me watch it bigger. or am i not seeing the fullscreen button?

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