Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool
Soon after Saunders took over the developer relations team, he asked Research In Motion's then co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in October 2011 for 25,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. When Lazaridis asked why, Saunders said he intended to give them away. Lazaridis ultimately agreed, and Saunders began giving PlayBooks out to developers. He followed that up by giving away more than 8,000 units of RIM's Dev Alpha devices, which ran an early version of BlackBerry 10. Saunders knew he needed to get the long-ignored BlackBerry developer base excited again. In 48 out of the last 52 weeks, he has been on a plane circling the globe in an effort to drum up interest
What the influencers are saying
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Jim Courtney
RT @buenadesign: 1B "thank you's" to you and the team, @asaunders! Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool http://t.co/eqdX8rZG ...
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Pat
RT @andreascon: RIM's @asaunders: a new role model of a platform leader in the post-Jobs era http://t.co/7NrHyUij
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FierceWireless
RT @CNETNews: Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool http://t.co/NtFDsDkj
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Alec Saunders
Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool http://t.co/27Bs6aEl via @CNET
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Todd Smith
Here's why RIM's fate is in the hands of @asaunders http://t.co/badJ5M8T
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Andy Abramson
Great story about pal, friend, client Alec Saunders Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool http://t.co/8OPOCuhF @CNET @asaunders
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