21 Oct Canadian cringe quote of the week — technology division

Jeff Jarvis speaking to Leo LaPorte on this week’s edition of This Week in Google:

I listen to Radio Canada — CBC — on Sirius all the time, because they have good programs, and they’re covering RIM like it’s really a story, ‘cause they have to, ‘cause it’s like a national requirement. It’s so sad.

Peter Rojas chimed in:

That company… Those two, the co-CEOs, should be fired. Those guys are in complete denial. Whatever they were able to lead the company to success before, they’re clearly not able to take it to where it needs to go now. They’re executing way too slowly, the products are not exciting, and I think they still completely overvalued their core asset which is basically how well Blackberries do email and the security stuff.

LaPorte:

I think that what they did not count on was that the employee would start choosing the handset, not the employer. I think that’s really what happened…. Employees said, “Nope, I’m not using that crappy phone. I’m using an iPhone.”