Chen may not please fans...
- Seems many of Chen's decisions, like not focusing on hardware, won't make fans happy.
I find him very focused on making BlackBerry profitable and it looks like it might be at the expense of a few fans who won't let go of the past.
His obligations are to the shareholders, then the existing enterprise clientele, not the fanboys who want several devices a year.
You can't please everyone. I'm sure the business owners on the forums (myself included) can agree with a majority of Chen's decisions. Sometimes to keep a company afloat financially, you need to make tough decisions, unless you are aa business owner, you won't understand that.07-27-15 04:47 PMLike 16 - Apple has religiously released one device per year and fanboys and girls still buy them even if they are all the same. We, as BlackBerry supporters, need to stop complaining and get over what's happening. If you don't like something then stop supporting them and get over it, just like you said.
Posted via CB1007-27-15 04:55 PMLike 19 - I run a 99.9% mobile only business. I need to know what BlackBerry is offering me the prosumer. Chen has given myself and many others in my position no offerings and nothing on what's to come.
Chen needs to step up and let us know what's going on.
Chen is a master of saying nothing. Just as a fine politician he answers questions vaguely with no real depth. He is becoming very frustrating.
"We are working on something", is the extent of his most candid takes.
Posted via CB1007-27-15 04:56 PMLike 6 - I believe Prosumers are taken care of very well through classic, passport, z30 and BES.
Personally, I'd like to see less phones but higher quality and better specs.07-27-15 05:07 PMLike 8 -
Posted via CB1007-27-15 05:12 PMLike 3 - Chen is going to have to start delivering to share holders as well. A depressed stock price and little to no clear road of offerings isn't going to be allowed for too much longer.
Chen needs to step up
Posted via CB10jojo beaconsfield and world traveler and former ceo like this.07-27-15 05:21 PMLike 2 - I run a 99.9% mobile only business. I need to know what BlackBerry is offering me the prosumer. Chen has given myself and many others in my position no offerings and nothing on what's to come.
Chen needs to step up and let us know what's going on.
Chen is a master of saying nothing. Just as a fine politician he answers questions vaguely with no real depth. He is becoming very frustrating.
"We are working on something", is the extent of his most candid takes.07-27-15 05:26 PMLike 0 - I think BlackBerry will always make a couple phones. But you need to make your company money, not try to compete in a market you're already getting killed in.
So if that means making less phones and becoming a software/security company, then go for it.
You're always going to be able to buy a BlackBerry, maybe not every 6 months, but they'll still put out a few new phones once in a while that the corporate/government customers are using. Buy those or jump ship.
If you are a regular consumer and want to switch from BlackBerry to iphone or android, Chen doesn't care at this moment in time he'd probably tell you to switch.
If you are a business owner, with 50 employees on BlackBerry and considered switching, you'd have his attention and he'd do whatever he needs to to keep you on board. That's his customer base, not the fanboy who posts to his youtube comparing the passport to the Samsung Galaxy.
Again, all the ridiculous complaining on the forums is very likely from people who do not own businesses or are in positions of management.
BlackBerry needs a straight shooter who makes money or cuts cost, that's it. Not someone who is emotionally attached to the past where BlackBerry used to dominate. Any business person would agree.07-27-15 05:36 PMLike 4 -
Posted via Z3007-27-15 05:59 PMLike 3 - Lol do you expect the majority of people in this site to care if Blackberry's shareholders are happy? I've never understood the sentiment that if Blackberry succeeds as a company even at the expense of handsets that people are supposed to root for that. If Blackberry stops making phones and suddenly becomes a powerhouse software company I couldn't care less. I have no interest in them outside of phones and don't care if they are profitable or not outside of that if that means they aren't making phones anymore.
Why would any consumer of their devices who isn't a shareholder root for a company that isn't supplying anything they need or want? Am I supposed to just cheer Chen on because he's the CEO of Blackberry? Not me, if they quit making phones then I couldn't care less if they succeed at anything or not. They can split the company up into pieces if phones aren't a part of the deal.07-27-15 06:30 PMLike 21 -
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He's been good at software in his own past of course.
Sent from my iPhone 6 using Tapatalkkbz1960 likes this.07-27-15 07:15 PMLike 1 - One of BlackBerry s problems was offering too many models at one time. Just as GM had too many lines.
Posted via CB1007-27-15 08:16 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-27-15 08:39 PMLike 0 - Apple has religiously released one device per year and fanboys and girls still buy them even if they are all the same. We, as BlackBerry supporters, need to stop complaining and get over what's happening. If you don't like something then stop supporting them and get over it, just like you said.
Posted via CB10
apple aslo offer wide range of device not just iphone to pleased their fans and to help funding their R&D division ...they have ipad, ipod touch, apple watch, mac etc
i dont think BB can manage to pay for BB10 development just with 1 or 2 device a year....with focus on high end product BB asp maybe will get better but not as good as iphone asp, plus BB will eliminate developing market so the sales number will be worst....
so realy you cant compare apple with BBLast edited by garnok; 07-27-15 at 09:27 PM.
extisis and MarsupilamiX like this.07-27-15 09:12 PMLike 2 - You may have noticed there a *lot* of Canadians on this site. BlackBerry has been a point of pride for some (many?) Canadians because it is a major tech success born and raised in Canada. So I can totally see how some would want that to continue, even if they have to become a software company to do it.Jay Wright2 likes this.07-27-15 09:19 PMLike 1
- Seems many of Chen's decisions, like not focusing on hardware, won't make fans happy.
I find him very focused on making BlackBerry profitable and it looks like it might be at the expense of a few fans who won't let go of the past.
His obligations are to the shareholders, then the existing enterprise clientele, not the fanboys who want several devices a year.
You can't please everyone. I'm sure the business owners on the forums (myself included) can agree with a majority of Chen's decisions. Sometimes to keep a company afloat financially, you need to make tough decisions, unless you are aa business owner, you won't understand that.07-27-15 10:08 PMLike 3 - Tell me if I'm wrong, but I think missing_K-W meant, that he has to know, what's the future OS of the phone is gonna be. So that he knows if it's a good idea to dig into BB10 Apps or move on to another mobile OS. At least this is the question I ask myself....missing_K-W and kbz1960 like this.07-28-15 02:33 AMLike 2
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(Again, tell me if I'm wrong)07-28-15 02:34 AMLike 0 -
Swiped on my beautiful Passport!neoberry99 likes this.07-28-15 03:03 AMLike 1 - There's no way BlackBerry could answer that definitively since they're not in a great position. They can't say BB10 for the next five years because they just don't know. They can't say Android for the next five years because they just don't know. They're still in the midst of figuring out something that will sustain them. If they announce something and switch gears, people are just going to be mad.07-28-15 03:24 AMLike 0
- Right, they can't just exit hardware tomorrow. A controlled scale down is what Chen is probably after, which means he still has motivation to produce some hardware... unless hardware is a huge drain on profits. High revenue numbers look good, but profit ultimately counts in the long run.app_Developer likes this.07-28-15 03:27 AMLike 1
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