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markmall I would love to see those numbers broken out in the financials. I listened to most if not all of the earnings calls around this time and I don't remember any discussion of these commitments as a main driving force for the company's strategy.
If BB really had no hope of succeeding in handsets, it would have lost less money just telling the vendors, "we're getting out of the business and can pay you something for our commitment if you can't find another buyer." Or pay for lost profits if the parts were not already made.
I've seen no convincing evidence of this and I think I would have been aware of it.
Lastly, if true then I think Chen should not have misled investors that he was really hopeful to be profitable at 10 million phones and then 5 million, or whatever, if he were going to axe the core business the whole time and knew he would not hit those targets. He sure fooled me, and I'm upset if that is what he really did (which he didn't).
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