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Dunt Dunt Dunt I don't know how done the design was.... people had seen it almost a year before, with those same specs. And we know it had been sitting on Chen desk for a good long time. What we don't know is how closely TCL copied their plans......
TCL Communications finical information, up until they went private (due to their business was in trouble) are public record. The sale of 49% of their business for a fraction of what it had been worth when they went private is pretty well documented. T And they still post product shipments, currently down 39% YoY - which last year it was down 30% YoY for the same period. TCL has had a rough two years from their high back in 2015. At one time they were a major vendor in China, but now they don't even rank.
It is true that they are partly owned by TCL Corporation that has been very successful in appliances and other electronics, and is worth billions. How that would help TCL Communications.... is unknown, as so far they haven't stepped in to help them much.
Still, I'm not sure what you're trying to prove by conflating KEYone build quality and your investigative reporting on BBMo's financials. Both Google and Apple are facing class action lawsuits over their devices, Samsung had its Note 7 dumpster fire, etc. Obviously, even being a successful multi-billion dollar company at the highest level does not make a company immune.
I did own a KEYone...two in fact, and I thought the build quality was quite good. Certainly on par with any top notch OEM. I just wished they had used better quality components.
As for Chen, I don't believe anything he ever said about devices can be trusted...including the BS about the KEYone prototype. He spent at least the first few years of his tenure pretending BlackBerry was still in the phone business, while behind closed doors ripping it to pieces and firing thousands of people. Does anyone honestly believe during that time period he funded the development of a working prototype for a device that had no chance of getting built and sold by BlackBerry? PRIV was the last, and even then it was a botched rush job to get it out the door before the entire division was asked to pack their bags.