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That's exactly the right question to ask. When they were selling 15M phones a year or two ago, selling 5-6M M phones today is a disaster, especially when the tr
by gnaffle 13y ago
That's exactly the right question to ask. When they were selling 15M phones a year or two ago, selling 5-6M M phones today is a disaster, especially when the trend continues downward after releasing the BB10 which was supposed to "save" BlackBerry. Then add the fact that they had to take a big loss on unsold BB10 inventory, and the picture is pretty bleak.
They can probably stick around for a long time as a niche player, but that's not going to provide the kind of big returns that the investors expect.
- danielweber 13y ago"Bad deal for investors" is something I can't disagree with. I sure wouldn't put any money in them. This doesn't mean that they're going to go out of business and everyone needs to race to abandon ship, though.
- gnaffle 13y agoNo, but the outlook is uncertain. There's a history of solid mobile platforms being abandoned much more quickly than most would expect: Symbian, WM6, Palm, Sidekick (including the spectacular Microsoft data deletion screwup), so to not make contingency / transition plans now when BlackBerry is officially up for sale would be irresponsible.