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The way I see it, MS had a great product for the corporate/business market and could have put a nail in the coffin of Blackberry a few years sooner. But instea

The way I see it, MS had a great product for the corporate/business market and could have put a nail in the coffin of Blackberry a few years sooner. But instead they wanted a piece of the consumer app market so badly that they rebooted their platform 3-4 times chasing an impossible dream.

pwthornton 9y ago
The thing is there really isn't a corporate/business market anymore. The company I worked for stopped buying corporate phones and plans and just gives us money every month to put to a BYOD solution. We just need to use a phone with certain security requirements. We also have started procuring software and services to fit into this world.
- wvenable 9y ago
  We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work. A phone that works great with corporate networks, allows for editing Word and Excel documents, could have gone very far a few years ago. Even getting corporate app developers to port their apps to Windows phone would have been easier than chasing Zynga down.
  - chucksmash 9y ago
    > We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work. This article[1] seems to run counter to your intuition: > In the fourth quarter of 2016, more than 432 million smartphones were sold, according to a report published on Wednesday by the research firm Gartner. Of those, just 207,900 were BlackBerry devices running its own operating system. > That gives the Canadian smartphone company a share of the overall phone market of less than a single percentage point. To be precise, it's 0.0481%. > Even when you include BlackBerry's devices running Android, its numbers are still incredibly low. Last year, CEO John Chen said the company sold only about 400,000 devices in the second quarter. Blackberry's market share is much nearer my own (i.e. 0 phones manufactured or sold) than it is Apple's or Google's. [1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-marketshare-zero-percent-gartner-q4-2016-2017-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-markets...

pwthornton 9y ago

The thing is there really isn't a corporate/business market anymore. The company I worked for stopped buying corporate phones and plans and just gives us money every month to put to a BYOD solution. We just need to use a phone with certain security requirements. We also have started procuring software and services to fit into this world.

wvenable 9y ago
We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work. A phone that works great with corporate networks, allows for editing Word and Excel documents, could have gone very far a few years ago. Even getting corporate app developers to port their apps to Windows phone would have been easier than chasing Zynga down.
- chucksmash 9y ago
  > We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work. This article[1] seems to run counter to your intuition: > In the fourth quarter of 2016, more than 432 million smartphones were sold, according to a report published on Wednesday by the research firm Gartner. Of those, just 207,900 were BlackBerry devices running its own operating system. > That gives the Canadian smartphone company a share of the overall phone market of less than a single percentage point. To be precise, it's 0.0481%. > Even when you include BlackBerry's devices running Android, its numbers are still incredibly low. Last year, CEO John Chen said the company sold only about 400,000 devices in the second quarter. Blackberry's market share is much nearer my own (i.e. 0 phones manufactured or sold) than it is Apple's or Google's. [1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-marketshare-zero-percent-gartner-q4-2016-2017-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-markets...