RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm .

What Nokia did in the end was to bypass RIM and go straight to NTP. It's really unfortunate for RIM to still be dealing with the same issues, which haven't been resolved. It's definitely adversely impacting their business model.

RIM is definitely trying to push aggressively with their technology, but legal issues are holding them back from going full throttle and coming out with new devices and technologies.

They need to get over these hurdles with NTP to compete in the marketplace. RIM is now dealing with these legal issues instead of focusing their own resources to compete against rivals like Microsoft.

knocking the other guy out. It's just getting in there and participating. So we wanted to keep it loose, and it's free-form. Although I hit Edward whenever I could and was able to get away with it.

[In fact, all he’ll offer is a simple] No, I’m not getting into all of that ... The Break Up.