Seriously? One dev drops support for the platform when hardly anyone used their app on the platform to begin with and suddenly it is abandon ship. How many different little companies has RIM bought up over the past year? Now they’re trimming the fat en masse and that’s a mistake. They should’ve just done it quietly over the course of the last 6 months. Isn’t Apple being sued by Samsung and vice versa? Remember when Apple stock was at $4/share?

I totally agree that they should slim down, as almost any company should - and yes, they should have done it gradually. It’s just more bad press that the company really doesn’t need. I have high hopes for the company but I can’t deny that the playbook didn’t have the greatest launch and that they’re being perceived in the media and on wall street as struggling.

I don’t see Seesmic not developing for the phone will be Blackberry’s downfall or anything but, unfortunately, it’s just more bad press.