That network of relationships with enterprise vendors will come in handy if RIM decides to more directly confront Apple. When Jobs gives his WWDC keynote in early June, he is expected to unveil new iPhone models. Maybe he’ll also have more to say about any new friends he’s made in the corporate world.

Steve Jobs: [...]

But it appears Vizio is ratcheting up the price pressure again on its closest competitors, according to new figures from iSuppli, a market research firm that monitors the LCD industry.

Philips was the first to buckle under the pressure, announcing last month that it would no longer make or distribute its own TVs in North America. [...]

Sadly, they all died when Sega decided it was best to make its way out of the hardware business and get into the software market to try its luck.
There’s no debating the fact that it will be hard for Sega to make in-roads in the hardware space, and there’s no telling if it will be [...]

Years later, as Joe Nocera eloquently opines in The New York Times, Microsoft has tethered itself to its Windows operating system and almost certainly lost its way on the Internet as a result:
“The die is cast,” declared Julius Caesar, anticipating Microsoft’s fateful decision to protect its Windows cash cow at all costs.

Windows is already dying [...]