6 Months to live! - BBC article
- http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23940171 BBC news just ran this article on TV. Analyst gives BBRY six months....coyotebandit77 likes this.09-03-13 07:27 AMLike 1
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Like anything, one day that will happen.
For now, all my BlackBerry devices are functioning fine. And I expect to be buying a Q soon.09-03-13 07:31 AMLike 41 - cant see it.
Be around for a while yet, in one form or another.GRojasHruska and neoberry99 like this.09-03-13 07:33 AMLike 2 - It's been six months for the last 3 years now...they're alive and kicking, and so are my BlackBerry products!09-03-13 07:38 AMLike 13
- Last year many school kids in the UK had blackberries. Probably similar in many other European countries too. BBM was even what was used to organise the London riots. Not skype, not SMS, or whatsapp. BBM.
This year I don't think that's the case. I haven't been able to check on that, but I'm sure it just isn't.09-03-13 07:45 AMLike 0 - Not to give BBC any credit or cause some havoc in here, but seeing as BlackBerry have put themselves up for any possible outcome, 6 to 12 months isn't far fetched at all. Who knows what we can see in 6 months time. 6 months ago, I wasn't expecting BlackBerry to put themselves up at all, not 7 months after launching BB10, anyway.09-03-13 07:50 AMLike 4
- That by the end of the year we will have big announcements on the "strategic alternatives" front, I consider to be avery plausible scenario, but to say BlackBerry will be dead in 6 months I do not believe so.
That BlackBerry may be quite "diversificated" (however this can be perceived in the context of "alternatives), this I also consider possible. That though does not necessarily mean that BlackBerry products will cease to exist, quite the contrary I believe.
We ll just have to wait and see, I for one have lost my crystal ball during adolescense and the only thing I am 100% sure about, is the degree of uncertainty in cases where I have access to irrefutable info related.
People keep proclaiming "the death" of BlackBerry just to be able to say "I told you so" if it happens... I can also predict the death of a series of people... sometime in the next 80 years (attempt at sarcasm here).
End rant._
Posted via my Q10 and CB10shaleem likes this.09-03-13 07:56 AMLike 1 - Thats ok. Microsoft is going to by Nokia's phone division. As as much as I like Microsoft products, we see what they did (didnt more like it) with Skype. So does Microsoft really have a clue how to run a hardware business? I say no, Surface being one example. So maybe not number 3 after all....
My point, the landscape is always shifting with technology (one of the reasons Warren Buffet doesnt invest in it) so you really never know what or who is going to be 'IT' next.wincyUt likes this.09-03-13 08:06 AMLike 1 - i'm amazed at people... they have been saying bb is dead since the last two years... why do people so much want to see this company dead???
let us suppose that the news is true... that bb will be dead in 6 months, so what do you or we do?
it's like a doctor telling a patient he has 6 months to live. now will you start diging his grave and printing his funural cards and making funeral arangements, just coz the doc said he has 6 more months. from the looks of things, this is exactly what people here are doing, selecting grave site, diging graves, making funeral arangements, making the guest list and choosing the menu. some may call it event management and planning. but like they say, 'it aien't over till the fat lady sings', and the lady still has a few more pounds to gain and the show still is going on before it is her turn to sing... so please keep calm and remain seated till the show is over.
be polite enough for the guy to actually die, before pronouncing him dead.
i know, bad example but what can i do... if you guys have a better one kindly correct me.
thank you.09-03-13 08:11 AMLike 11 - Thats ok. Microsoft is going to by Nokia's phone division. As as much as I like Microsoft products, we see what they did (didnt more like it) with Skype. So does Microsoft really have a clue how to run a hardware business? I say no, Surface being one example. So maybe not number 3 after all....
My point, the landscape is always shifting with technology (one of the reasons Warren Buffet doesnt invest in it) so you really never know what or who is going to be 'IT' next.
Make no mistake, the surface was a fantastic product, but was just poorly executed. Microsoft is learning, and they'll have thousands of Nokia employees to help them out.09-03-13 08:15 AMLike 0 - i'm amazed at people... they have been saying bb is dead since the last two years... why do people so much want to see this company dead???
let us suppose that the news is true... that bb will be dead in 6 months, so what do you or we do?
it's like a doctor telling a patient he has 6 months to live. now will you start diging his grave and printing his funural cards and making funeral arangements, just coz the doc said he has 6 more months. from the looks of things, this is exactly what people here are doing, selecting grave site, diging graves, making funeral arangements, making the guest list and choosing the menu. some may call it event management and planning. but like they say, 'it aien't over till the fat lady sings', and the lady still has a few more pounds to gain and the show still is going on before it is her turn to sing... so please keep calm and remain seated till the show is over.
be polite enough for the guy to actually die, before pronouncing him dead.
i know, bad example but what can i do... if you guys have a better one kindly correct me.
thank you.09-03-13 08:19 AMLike 3 -
"BBM...start your riot"....
"Hey that is my Q... 10... via CB1009-03-13 08:29 AMLike 0 - This from the same network that used photos from Iraq to show what's going on in Syria. Zero Credibility.09-03-13 08:52 AMLike 5
- Thats ok. Microsoft is going to by Nokia's phone division. As as much as I like Microsoft products, we see what they did (didnt more like it) with Skype. So does Microsoft really have a clue how to run a hardware business? I say no, Surface being one example. So maybe not number 3 after all....
My point, the landscape is always shifting with technology (one of the reasons Warren Buffet doesnt invest in it) so you really never know what or who is going to be 'IT' next.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 was insanely successful. They make extremely well received Mice, keyboards etc. The Surface failed only because they stupidly made too many and there were far too few outlets...plus the fact that it was priced way too high. Hardware build quality wise, very few tablets out there can touch the Surface...certainly not the PlayBook.
DId you know Android tablets were failing like crazy (Motorola Xoom sold poorly, initial Samsung tablets sold crappily) until 2012 and only rejuvenated by the Nexus 7 line and Samsung's later Galaxy tabs? They never gave up there, did they?
Skype is still doing fine. Subscriber numbers are steady, it's being baked into the Xbox One and WIndows 8.1 so use will skyrocket. It'll likely find its way to the PS4. It's installed in MILLIONS of phones and for many people it's the only way to video call. MS is not nearly the big bad wolf.
We'll see what they do with Nokia. I'm seriously apprehensive too, but not nearly enough to spread FUD.09-03-13 09:20 AMLike 3 -
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Mods need to really clean this garbage out. It's one thing for a long time poster to to post this, but when this is your first post .....what are your motives? Sudden desire to educate the masses on CB?09-03-13 09:36 AMLike 5 - 6 Months is forever in Technology Land. If BBRY is buried in six months I will be there enjoying it with the latest BBRY from Waterloo. The more likely scenario is that in 6 months I will be much closer to the equator and enjoying the latest BBRY from Waterloo.thatplaybookguy and cantina4me like this.09-03-13 09:39 AMLike 2
- You need to lay off what you're smoking.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 was insanely successful. They make extremely well received Mice, keyboards etc. The Surface failed only because they stupidly made too many and there were far too few outlets...plus the fact that it was priced way too high. Hardware build quality wise, very few tablets out there can touch the Surface...certainly not the PlayBook.
DId you know Android tablets were failing like crazy (Motorola Xoom sold poorly, initial Samsung tablets sold crappily) until 2012 and only rejuvenated by the Nexus 7 line and Samsung's later Galaxy tabs? They never gave up there, did they?
Skype is still doing fine. Subscriber numbers are steady, it's being baked into the Xbox One and WIndows 8.1 so use will skyrocket. It'll likely find its way to the PS4. It's installed in MILLIONS of phones and for many people it's the only way to video call. MS is not nearly the big bad wolf.
We'll see what they do with Nokia. I'm seriously apprehensive too, but not nearly enough to spread FUD.
Microsoft's cash cow is Enterprise which foots the bill for a lot of these consumer products. As a software company Microsoft (most of the time) does it right, their hardware divisions seem to struggle, Zune, Surface, even the XBox.
The fact is Nokia is making out with selling there hardware division. Microsoft is making a mistake and closing off the chance of anyone else making a run at doing a Windows Phone and the market (at least stock) is picking the winner in this deal.09-03-13 09:44 AMLike 0 - The worst thing about BB people is the on going complaining and so called conspiracy theories. If anyone read a Crackberry post before buying a BB10 they would stop scratch their head and move on to another product. We are BB worst nightmare.09-03-13 09:55 AMLike 3
- its called "covering there shorts" they are trying to force the stock down to make back the money they speculated on...thats all.. blackberry has cash on hand and "NO" debt.. and i read most of the article i never did see anything about berry.... maybe i skipped to much... but it was all about the sale of nokia09-03-13 10:11 AMLike 0
- Well, if you keep predicting it every six months, eventually you'll be correct...
Eventually.currentodysseys and maddie1128 like this.09-03-13 10:40 AMLike 2 - You will love it! My Q10 is freaking gorgeous and browses fast,fast - works like a dream.moody and maddie1128 like this.09-03-13 11:14 AMLike 2
- Ok. If you can get the writer to hold his/her breath for that long, I'll believe it. Ready? Deep breath! Go....
The tech and devices will be around in some form for a while. The name may not. But the very reason they lasted this long and is still used by government and military and other fortune 500 firms is...there is no substitute on the basis of security. IMO. So until there's a replacement, not likely to disappear anytime soon.
When I have 10 minutes to completely waste, I'll try to read this arm chair ceo's brilliant insight. There's no shortage of those lately.
09-03-13 11:26 AMLike 0 - 6 months to live sounds like a movie title. All fiction but no facts.Rohit_K and FuNKBerryZ like this.09-03-13 11:30 AMLike 2
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