RIM’s Jim Balsillie optimistic about company future

Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie is promising big things at a company event in San Francisco, Calif., starting Tuesday.

He is looking to rebuild user and developer confidence in RIM’s future after last week’s BlackBerry blackout.

It’s been described as the most difficult year in the history of RIM — a loss of market share in the smartphone industry, underwhelming sales for the Playbook tablet, last week’s e-mail meltdown and 60 per cent drop in the stock price.

However, Balsillie told the Globe and Mail that will all change at the start of an apps developer conference in San Francisco.

His challenge will be to persuade developers that it’s worth the effort to create software applications.

Balsillie also told the paper, observers will be blown away by a slew of announcements RIM plans to make and how they’ve “intercepted the future.”

Analysts believe RIM will launch new software that runs e-mail and other vital applications on the Playbook tablet, along with new details about the upcoming line of RIM smartphones due out early 2012, which will run on a new operating system, called QNX.

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