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conite Thorsten was still there when they did the billion dollar write down.
You might be right but I thought he took a big one his first quarter.
One another note, he did a big interview the The Globe and Mail in Feb. 2014. Here is some of what he said about devices. Most interesting is how he criticized Heins for not educating the market about BB10. He never fixed it!:
"Frustrated BlackBerry devotees returned the new phones in droves and ordered older BlackBerrys instead. The handset business was already unprofitable; thanks to the BlackBerry 10 flop, now it had become the source of billions of dollars in writedowns. “We missed one step, which was to educate the market up front” about the changes, Chen says. “We [thought] that if we built it, everybody will love it.”
The short-term answer to the handset problem is twofold: New BlackBerry phones will continue to use the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but “will have some of the features our power-users love,” says Chen. He doesn’t want to get into specifics, but company sources confirm that the belt of five function keys will start appearing on BlackBerry 10 phones this year."
Chen didn't discuss Android at all, of course, and there were no Android questions. If he knew what he was going to do at this point he did a good job hiding it. He talked about using sales forces to sell to enterprise. I remember waiting to hear something about this big sales push, and it never happened so far as I could tell.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...5516/?page=all