So there was a whole flock of Turkeys. Every day the farmer would come and feed them corn, but they were basically afraid of him, but one turkey noticed that if he ran up to the farmer instead of running away he got more corn and didn't have to compete with other turkeys for it. This happened every day, and he got bolder and bolder eventually eating out of the farmer's hand. Soon he was the biggest turkey in the flock, and he was able to wait for the farmer and choose his corn from the bucket. Every day learning from yesterday and getting bolder and bigger. Until Christmas eve......

(for Turkeys substitute DEC, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM (and Apple?)