本来已经想好今天就买一千RIMM，看来是到头了啊。临到按键之前又忍了忍，心想还是调查一下吧。这一看，全是负面的评论啊。尤其是下面这段，说的那个狠，而且还无法反驳。得，想了想，还是没买。
This stock once traded in the $140s but closed at less than $10 on a couple of occasions last week.
The company has been both a punch line and a punching bag for anyone with enough common sense to understand that all there is left to Research In Motion is its name, one that has become synonymous with failure and futility.
Yet RIM's investors continue to insist that the company is only one good idea away from regaining its once-dominant status.
They forget that Apple(AAPL_), Google(GOOG_) and Microsoft(MSFT_) are not going to just sit indolently and wait for that to happen.
For all of the punishment the company has taken for its failed business decisions, it has not gotten nearly enough credit for having established such a loyal base of die-hard apologists.
Many of them work 24/7 to defend the company from what they view as a world of unsophisticated investors and consumers who do not understand a superior product. These investors forget, however, that RIM has yet to create such a product.
The saddest part of the situation is that not only do these investors refuse to accept what Wall Street already assumes to be true, even worse, they refuse to accept what the company's own management has been telling them over the past couple of years: It's over.
Recently I've talked about how in the world of investing, people tend to see only what they want to see. This can cause a world of pain because "what you see is not always what you get" -- particularly on Wall Street, where corporations have become highly skilled at pretending to be something they are not.
However, RIM stopped pretending a long time ago. Instead, it is now the company's investors who insist on believing in something that is no longer there.
This stock once traded in the $140s but closed at less than $10 on a couple of occasions last week.
Yet RIM's investors continue to insist that the company is only one good idea away from regaining its once-dominant status.
They forget that Apple(AAPL_), Google(GOOG_) and Microsoft(MSFT_) are not going to just sit indolently and wait for that to happen.
For all of the punishment the company has taken for its failed business decisions, it has not gotten nearly enough credit for having established such a loyal base of die-hard apologists.
Many of them work 24/7 to defend the company from what they view as a world of unsophisticated investors and consumers who do not understand a superior product. These investors forget, however, that RIM has yet to create such a product.
The saddest part of the situation is that not only do these investors refuse to accept what Wall Street already assumes to be true, even worse, they refuse to accept what the company's own management has been telling them over the past couple of years: It's over.
Recently I've talked about how in the world of investing, people tend to see only what they want to see. This can cause a world of pain because "what you see is not always what you get" -- particularly on Wall Street, where corporations have become highly skilled at pretending to be something they are not.
However, RIM stopped pretending a long time ago. Instead, it is now the company's investors who insist on believing in something that is no longer there.
