My take on why BlackBerry isn't doing great in the current smartphone market
Originally Posted by
z10Jobe Well if ya followed the posts, you would see that I was responding to and giving additional reasons why BlackBerry has higher development and production costs, (Canada and Mexico more expensive than China) and also did mention the Classic as being the exception long after the profits were gone and long after other companies had already done so.
I don't recall proclaiming BlackBerry as saints, but nice extrapolation. BlackBerry used to build some phones here in Ontario, but that is no longer feasible given costs and their financial predicament.
Celebrating huge profits and a mountain of cash while workers get paid chicken feed and having to live at their workplace is not something I would associate as being a good thing, but some on here have no problem with it, although I doubt that it is something most of us would want to do for a living.
Just my 2 cents.
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I wasn't extrapolating anything. You did fail to mention in any of your previous posts in here that the Classic AND the Z3 were built by Foxconn, but as you mentioned above I guess it's ok because times are tight and because other companies do it. My point is calling out Samsung and Apple is also calling out Blackberry. Blackberry has had devices made there and if they would have been successful you can bet they'd continue to have them made there.
I haven't seen a press release from Blackberry discussing how they were appalled by the working conditions at Foxconn and decided to terminate their agreement. The only press I've seen on it is Chen saying the Classic is out of production because Blackberry doesn't want to pay more for an updated chip because the one they were using in the Classic is EOL.
Edit: and you use a Classic so I guess you do approve of that type of labor.
My take on why BlackBerry isn't doing great in the current smartphone market
Originally Posted by
Bbnivende Funny how all those "just another Android phone " manage to sell fine enough. The PKB is not viewed as an advantage by those who want a VKB . I do think that sum of the Rome and Hamburg would be greater than PRIV sales.
Define "fine enough."