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RIM is simply one of many companies that just got utterly smoked by the iPhone, and I wish people would stop equating its failure with the intrinsic problems of the Canadian software industry - which are real and numerous (and your point #2 is bang on) but I feel are their own separate issue.

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I don't think that's true. They certainly knew about the iPhone before the public did, and so they had a ton of time and money to position themselves for it. Certainly the iPhone was a game changer, but there is absolutely no reason that a better managed RIM shouldn't have come out ahead. Look up some of the stuff that Lazaridis said about the iPhone.

I mean, read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/29/rim-chiefs-... . The iPhone didn't kill RIM, it was hubris and complacency.

Hubris and complacency wasn't limited to RIM. The iPhone smoked Nokia, Palm, Sony's cell phone division, Microsoft, etc. To look at RIM's failure as symptomatic of the Canadian tech sector is inaccurate.

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