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A few questions come to mind: How much cash do they have in reserves? Can they survive till q1 2015 when they say costs will be slashed in half? Does the enterp
by brianbreslin 13y ago
A few questions come to mind:
How much cash do they have in reserves?
Can they survive till q1 2015 when they say costs will be slashed in half?
Does the enterprise market still care for them enough?
Could they survive as a platform and not a hardware maker (or which side of coin is more profitable for them?)
- GrinningFool 13y ago1) about 2.6 billion 2) probably. 3) some segments do. If they get small enough I suspect they'll be able to sustain operations. It will probably become quite a lucrative consulting niche.
- brianbreslin 13y agoBut how small of a consulting biz? would this be something IBM then acquires?
- GrinningFool 13y agoI'm not sure about for them - I meant for third parties :) Pretty much any level of adoption in the enterprise will necessitate development of LOB apps. Some of those enterprises will do it in-house, but others will not. With BB10 being scarce in the consumer world, there will not be a ton of talent with experience in building for it.
- speeder 13y agoI worked once for a company that made BlackBerry apps, and they were made mostly for companies crazy about secrecy and security, with the biggest clients being big pharma.