Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List 192
Nerval's Lobster writes "Freshly minted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promising the company's U.S. employees a new smartphone of their choice. There's just one catch: it can't be a BlackBerry. According to Business Insider, which posted significant portions of Mayer's memo, employees will have a choice of the Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, Nokia Lumia 920, or the upcoming iPhone 5. 'We'd like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the majority of our users do,' she wrote, adding that Yahoo will shift away from BlackBerry as its corporate device of choice. Somewhere up in Waterloo, at least one Research In Motion executive could be screaming in frustration over this development. Not because Yahoo is a bellwether for corporate smartphone use; its U.S. employees shifting to an iOS, Windows Phone or Android device won't automatically drive other major companies will follow suit. But as a symbol of RIM's current issues, it's difficult to find a better one than a high-profile technology company dumping its collective BlackBerry stock in favor of pretty much any other platform."
Re:Nokia Lumia 920 (Score:0, Funny)
One failing company dropping another's technology (Score:5, Funny)
What's next, RIM employees stop using Yahoo for search and tell their employees to use Google or Bing?
Re:Why a Microsoft phone? (Score:5, Funny)
Because RIM is on the decline and there is a fair amount of momentum behind MS.
I think you misspelled the word "money". The first two letters were right, but then you went right off the tracks.
Too much privacy? (Score:3, Funny)
Your ELD is off. [dilbert.com]
Re:Nokia Lumia 920 (Score:5, Funny)
If you could astropost when they'll actually ship, the rest of the world might care.
Re:Interesting rationale (Score:5, Funny)
My WTF was different than yours.
CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".
VLM questions "Yahoo still has users?" Who?
But then I'm CEO of nothing.
Patience young grasshopper. Yahoo will achieve nothingness soon enough. Then you can be its CEO.
I've occasionally wondered how much it would cost to start collecting companies as a hobby. For example, mint condition dotcom 1.0 corporations. How much would it cost me to buy flooz or drkoop.com or whatever it was called? I would imagine there's some ongoing accounting/tax costs. I do know people who collected paper stock certificates, for example Disney's paper stock certs used to be really cool and artistic, and I've always thought a collection of dotcom stock certs would be funny... but why collect a paper printout of a millionth of the dotcom when I could own the whole thing? My budget for this amusement would be on the scale of three digits, four is really pushing it. Is this a realistic collecting hobby for me? I'm not going to be one of those old people collecting a houseful of ceramic frogs... no not me... I'm gonna collect mint condition dotcom 1.0 companies. That sounds like fun.
Re:Nokia Lumia 920 (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad to see they chose Nokia Lumia 920 as a phone. It is very powerful, sleek and well-done smartphone with enterprise features from Microsoft. It's really much better business phone than iPhone or Android-based smart phones. On top of that Yahoo can use Visual Studio to develop their own apps - all with the maturity and familiarity of C# and Windows programming. Great choice!
Hum. You guys aren't up to the standard of the normal turfers from waggeneredstrom.com. They usually throw in some links:
I'm glad to see they chose Nokia Lumia 920 as a phone. It is very powerful, sleek and well-done smartphone [wikipedia.org]with enterprise features from Microsoft. It's really much better business phone than iPhone [wikipedia.org] or Android-based smart phones. On top of that Yahoo can use Visual Studio to develop their own apps [wikipedia.org] - all with the maturity and familiarity of C# and Windows programming [wikipedia.org]. Great choice!
Re:One failing company dropping another's technolo (Score:5, Funny)
What's next, RIM employees stop using Yahoo for search and tell their employees to use Google or Bing?
I think the vast majority of them are already using monster.com and dice.com, etc. Oh wait, do you mean general internet searching, not looking for a new job after the downsizing?
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
It's like being dumped by the dorkiest fat kid in school.
Re:Why a Microsoft phone? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey look! You found him!
Re:Nokia Lumia 920 (Score:2, Funny)
No one worships Java. It's owned by Oracle, and the the only tech company to get more hate than M$ is Oracle.
That's not true. Oracle is #3 on my list, just below Apple.