How big is the app gap really?
Originally Posted by
crazy mazy It's true that if your missing Snap Chat or Instagram, it's not the end o the world, but the fact is that a most of the banking apps and some of the important entertainment apps (netflix) are missing. Since Blackberry's target is mainly enterprise, they would need those banking apps. And finally since a lot of business users are not migrating to BB10 (Blackberry's most important demographic), tells you something is definitely missing.So Blackberry did the right thing by trying out an android device, with all the apps available.
One has to wonder, however, how much, if any market research Chen has done PRIOR to developing and producing the Priv to determine that people will buy a BlackBerry-branded phone, even if it has an ecosystem of apps and an OS that people have adopted.
Seems to me that he's grasping at straws.