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Gesig Boek The reason why most in this thread were surprised by the numbers is because you ignored data which did not agree with your wishes.
There were explicit data from Kantar every month which showed market share was poor, which was completely ignored, and reasons were invented why the numbers were inaccurate.
In addition everyone knew Blackberry 10 handsets were very expense, and would therefore not perform well. Yet people still held fantasies of 5-7 million sold. There is an obvious correlation between price and sales, which is why BB7 handsets outsold BB10 handsets nearly 2:1.
People allowed themselves to be misled by window dressing like the sales of thousands of BB10 handsets is a London department store, when they had actual Kantar numbers which shows BB had a 0.7% share in US and 5.6% share in UK.
It was also extremely obvious that Statcounter data was being manipulated up by who knows who, which should have rang alarm bells, but for some reason people just ignored it. The whole point of such a move would be to fool the longs, not the shorts.
Willfully ignoring independent sources of data is the reason many are now in the red.