[QUOTE]Shares of BlackBerry plunged more than 16% on Monday after the company abandoned plans to sell the company and fired its CEO.
BlackBerry's (BBRY) potential suitors had until Monday to produce plans to buy the struggling smartphone maker. Instead, BlackBerry's largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial, said it would invest $1 billion in the company.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/technology/blackberry-fairfax/index.html"]Source[/URL]
A little late on this post.
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If blackberry wants to be top again. Don't cheap out on the phone parts and features.
it actually boggles me how they can't be doing well, like every buisnes person 2 years ago used blackberries, im not sure what they do today but my dad is still addicted to his crappy crackberry, also the workings of an iphone are beyond his comprehension so...theres that
they did some absolutely horrible choices, they lagged back with lackluster software, hardware and a distinctive lack of apps due to how god awful their OS is.
tbh the company got themselves where they are at, they failed to adapt with the current mobile market.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;42760172]they did some absolutely horrible choices, they lagged back with lackluster software, hardware and a distinctive lack of apps due to how god awful their OS is.
tbh the company got themselves where they are at, they failed to adapt with the current mobile market.[/QUOTE]
Lackluster hardware and os are okay if you have good marketting. Look at apple.
Blackberry is following a disturbing trend of Canadian tech companies to be amazing for a while and then tank horribly. It happened to Commodore and Nortel in the past, it seems to be BB's turn.
Im pretty happy with my Q10 and compared to other mobile phones it was way cheaper.
Its keypad/keyboard is extremely comfortable and the OS is very fast.
They should have sold. Now they're just going to tank so low they'll be giving handjobs in back alleys for sales.
[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;42760575]They should have sold. Now they're just going to tank so low they'll be giving handjobs in back alleys for sales.[/QUOTE]
I think you meant: rimjobs
[quote]it actually boggles me how they can't be doing well, like every buisnes person 2 years ago used blackberries, im not sure what they do today but my dad is still addicted to his crappy crackberry, also the workings of an iphone are beyond his comprehension so...theres that [/quote]
Apple set the standard that you can't just have a phone that is handed out by the company. It has to be updated every year and have snap-on backplates along with a lineup of unproductive applications, otherwise it's just a phone your grandpa uses.
[quote]Blackberry is following a disturbing trend of Canadian tech companies to be amazing for a while and then tank horribly. It happened to Commodore and Nortel in the past, it seems to be BB's turn. [/quote]
Woah, now that I look at it that way, Telesat and UTDC had the same fate.
[QUOTE=pentium;42760925]Apple set the standard that you can't just have a phone that is handed out by the company. It has to be updated every year and have snap-on backplates along with a lineup of unproductive applications, otherwise it's just a phone your grandpa uses.
Woah, now that I look at it that way, Telesat and UTDC had the same fate.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget minute sometimes useless, fingerprint scanner, updates.
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