<p>Like who? I asked, hoping I might sweet-talk my way onto the list. It turns out it was the publisher and the company chairman.</p><p>That's the moment I should have realized that BlackBerry's maker, Research in Motion, was at risk of losing what was then its near-total dominance of a business smartphone market. Just three years later, its quarterly sales are down 40 percent, big profits have turned to losses and its shares are off 95 percent from its 2008 peak. The decline has been so steep that some analysts wonder whether Canadian-based RIM can survive.</p><p>Things aren't much better for Finland-based Nokia, which, after 14 years, has lost its title as the world's leading maker of mobile phones. Overall, its 40 percent global market share is now cut in half. Over the past 18 months, its stock price has dropped more than 70 percent, and the company was forced to lay off 10,000 workers.</p><p>It's not that Nokia failed to anticipate the smartphone revolution. A decade before the iPhone was launched, its engineers had a prototype of a sleek handheld device with a color touch screen that would allow you to manage e-mail, locate a nearby restaurant, play a game or order shoes on the Web.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/in-tech-world-good-to-great-to--gone/2012/09/14/a982c512-fabe-11e1-8252-5f89566a35ac_story.html">Keep reading...</a></p>