1. anon(5956773)'s Avatar
    I watch the event videos and the videos from the store in dubai. Is this the biggest market or is this the only area they actually do marketing in?
    08-28-15 07:23 PM
  2. Bla1ze's Avatar
    One of the areas they do heavier marketing.
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    08-28-15 07:39 PM
  3. Troy Tiscareno's Avatar
    I watch the event videos and the videos from the store in dubai. Is this the biggest market or is this the only area they actually do marketing in?
    It's one of the markets that BB has the highest penetration in, and one of the very few where they can sell things like $2000 Porsche Design phones. But it's a fairly small market in total. I'd guess that BB's biggest market is still Indonesia, but it was always a BBOS market rather than a BB10 market, and BB's losses there have been huge over the last year. Nigeria is another large market for BB, but again, it was cheap BBOS phones on BIS, not BB10, and cheap Android phones have taken over the market, though BB still has a chunk of the market.
    08-28-15 09:16 PM
  4. deiop's Avatar
    The market with the highest revenue is Europe. Especially Germany. There are the most BES installations. And BES, BBM protected & meetings, BlackBerry Secure Connect and so on are the products BlackBerry wants to sell. The hardware business is fading and the revenue is small.

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    08-28-15 10:08 PM
  5. Icardi101's Avatar
    I am in Dubai, there is no marketing at all. Just In the store, like outside of the store you won't see any marketing. A lot of people here have Iphones, Android + a BlackBerry as a second phone either,Q10, Classic, Passport or of Course BlackBerry Porsche Design

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    08-28-15 10:52 PM
  6. crackberry_geek's Avatar
    One of the areas they do heavier marketing.
    And it seems to work?

    Hmmmmm......

    Posted via CB10
    08-29-15 12:50 AM
  7. lnichols's Avatar
    It's one of the markets that BB has the highest penetration in, and one of the very few where they can sell things like $2000 Porsche Design phones. But it's a fairly small market in total. I'd guess that BB's biggest market is still Indonesia, but it was always a BBOS market rather than a BB10 market, and BB's losses there have been huge over the last year. Nigeria is another large market for BB, but again, it was cheap BBOS phones on BIS, not BB10, and cheap Android phones have taken over the market, though BB still has a chunk of the market.
    Last numbers I saw for Indonesia that market fell off the cliff for device sales. Cheap Android is eating that away. They are still getting largest percent of revenue from North America I believe. BB10 and BES are finally getting deployed more in the Federal space. Took a while, but BBOS and BES5 are finally being out out of their misery. Our work on call phone, Bold 9000, is finally getting updated because they are ending support for BBOS devices and moving people to BB10 and iOS. I just need a dumb phone to forward calls to my personal phone, but they won't do that. They are heavily testing BES12 with iOS 9 and based on what I'm hearing it is likely to become the preferred solution. Don't know how this BlackBerry Android thing is going to go because our security organizations tell us not to put anything forward that uses Android, this includes Cisco Phones using it or handsets.

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    08-29-15 08:49 AM
  8. Josh Garrow's Avatar
    One of the areas they do heavier marketing.
    Toronto would be next right? They do a lot of advertising there...in Ontario they do a lot.

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    08-29-15 09:19 AM
  9. igor10000's Avatar
    The market with the highest revenue is Europe. Especially Germany. There are the most BES installations. And BES, BBM protected & meetings, BlackBerry Secure Connect and so on are the products BlackBerry wants to sell. The hardware business is fading and the revenue is small.

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    HW still accounts for cca 50 % of the total revenue, just check the numbers in ER

    Posted via CB10
    08-30-15 05:50 AM
  10. IndianTiwari's Avatar
    Yes indeed it is one of the biggest markets for BlackBerry . Today I had been to BlackBerry stores at Dubai Mall to buy myself the Passport Silver Edition and Passport Red. The footfalls at BlackBerry stores has increased manifolds as per the stores manager and lot of people have started showing interest in the Slider.
    I am pleased to show my priced possessions today. Red Passport I bought for my office colleague and Silver Edition for me.




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    08-30-15 06:02 AM
  11. deiop's Avatar
    HW still accounts for cca 50 % of the total revenue, just check the numbers in ER

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    You're correct. Revenue is not income. They earn the most money in Europe.

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    08-30-15 06:06 AM
  12. azzziim's Avatar
    Not only Dubai, here is Doha Qatar and KSA Having huge craze about BlackBerry

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    08-30-15 11:50 AM
  13. valer466's Avatar
    Yeah at wold trade centre dubai you get to see a lot of non professionals too using the classic, z30 and passports. Besides their iPhones.
    11-01-15 03:27 AM

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