- Sadly all too true. Microsoft couldn't change that developers preferred to write for Android and iOS, whether it's due to frameworks, market share or both. When you need to turn a profit from your mobile apps, do you write for the phone platform with a billion users, or 50 million? Unless you can make the definitive app that everyone uses on the smaller platform, you're probably better off reaching the wider audience.09-28-16 09:36 AMLike 0
- US Gov has no say in what a Canadian company does in regards to selling itself to another company. They can cancel contracts or whatnot but they have no legal jurisdiction to tell foreign companies who they can and can't do business with.
It would be up to the Canadian government to block the sale based on national security concerns as they have stated before in the past when rumour was that BlackBerry was for sale.
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Please, they prosecuted the Fifa, the international government of football which has its HQ in Switzerland. They did it through the FBI, which has jurisdiction only inside the US, how about that?.. If you're European or familiar with the Fifa matter, you will know quite well the reach of the US Gov's jurisdiction, its practically international, spoils everywhere.09-28-16 09:39 AMLike 0 - 09-28-16 11:08 AMLike 1
- 2007 was the time they should have developed BB10. A well run company would have recognized the competition coming and started earlier. The fact was they started developing way to late and when they did release in 2013 the OS was not ready and took over a year to work out the bugs. The game was up in 2013, maybe if they had released a solid OS with an easy transition plan from BBOS they might have be able to stabilize with around ~4-5% market share.09-28-16 12:34 PMLike 0
- 2007 was the time they should have developed BB10. A well run company would have recognized the competition coming and started earlier. The fact was they started developing way to late and when they did release in 2013 the OS was not ready and took over a year to work out the bugs. The game was up in 2013, maybe if they had released a solid OS with an easy transition plan from BBOS they might have be able to stabilize with around ~4-5% market share.3Dee likes this.09-28-16 02:27 PMLike 1
- Blackberry is now a secure software company. They will "exit" the hardware market by getting rid of all the BlackBerry 10 phones, and giving it limited updates for its current corporate and government clients. Passport, Leap and Classic are dead.
But I do believe they will continue to sell BlackBerry branded smartphones in partnership with TCL. To showcase their software.
It's the same as what happened with Philips tv's. Philips "quit" the television market by outsourcing their manufacturer to TP Vision. TP Vision (a Dutch Chinese joint venture) now makes and sells Philips branded tv's. In the future BlackBerry will fully focus on software while TCL makes the hardware.
This is my y post from some time ago. I knew this was coming. I will really miss BlackBerry 's original hardware such as Passport and Classic. But this is the way it is. And I actually don't really mind as long as I have the BlackBerry secure software, Hub, DTEK, Keyboard, Password Keeper etc.
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Posted via CB App for Android on Tab4 (interim Playbook replacement)09-28-16 04:34 PMLike 0 - 2007 was the time they should have developed BB10. A well run company would have recognized the competition coming and started earlier. The fact was they started developing way to late and when they did release in 2013 the OS was not ready and took over a year to work out the bugs. The game was up in 2013, maybe if they had released a solid OS with an easy transition plan from BBOS they might have be able to stabilize with around ~4-5% market share.
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When Walt Mossberg and Mike were talking about upcoming super-phones!
Mike tried to make audience calm down and told a journalist how much better their single-core 624MHz is - when Android already were rocking +1GHz.
And that 2G is all everyone needs. LOL.
They didn't learn from that
Posted via CB10JeepBB likes this.09-29-16 12:05 AMLike 1 - Blackberry is now a secure software company. They will "exit" the hardware market by getting rid of all the BlackBerry 10 phones, and giving it limited updates for its current corporate and government clients. Passport, Leap and Classic are dead.
But I do believe they will continue to sell BlackBerry branded smartphones in partnership with TCL. To showcase their software.
BB's involvement with smartphones (again, after this fiscal year ends) will be limited to licensing the name, software, and perhaps PKB, to OEMs who think they can build a BB that will sell. IMO, there can't be very many of those, and I suspect they'll be small, regional OEMs who build only for their own region (and those regions aren't likely to include Europe or the Americas). Indonesians, South Africans, and Nigerians may be able to buy a new BB smartphone next summer - and it will probably be what we'd consider to be entry-level - but I doubt many people outside those markets will be able to. Of course, I could be wrong...09-29-16 12:25 AMLike 3 - I suppose you can believe that, but Chen specifically said that they won't be doing this. They are (at the end of the fiscal year, likely after the release of the Rome/Mercury) going to be out of the hardware business and the distribution business. Though they are reserving the right to distribute OEM's designs outside of licensed areas, Chen himself said it was very unlikely that they'd actually do that.
BB's involvement with smartphones (again, after this fiscal year ends) will be limited to licensing the name, software, and perhaps PKB, to OEMs who think they can build a BB that will sell. IMO, there can't be very many of those, and I suspect they'll be small, regional OEMs who build only for their own region (and those regions aren't likely to include Europe or the Americas). Indonesians, South Africans, and Nigerians may be able to buy a new BB smartphone next summer - and it will probably be what we'd consider to be entry-level - but I doubt many people outside those markets will be able to. Of course, I could be wrong...
Posted via the CrackBerry App for Android09-29-16 01:23 AMLike 0 -
Just because the CURRENT deal makes sense for TCL (BB is buying the devices by paying cash up-front and is stocking, distributing, marketing, and servicing them themselves), doesn't mean that it makes sense for TCL to license BB's name and software and take on all of the inventory and distribution costs/risks themselves. Those are two VERY different situations, with potentially VERY different financial results. TCL can't lose under their current deal, but they could lose very big under the new one, because they'd be taking all the risks.JeepBB and Dunt Dunt Dunt like this.09-29-16 02:27 AMLike 2 - Post the dtek50/ 60/ Mercury, i dont c y an oem wud license the bb brand out of specific loyal regions / for bulk customized enterprise orders. Tcl wud do better, selling cheap CM phones to the average customer.
With cheap Chinese phones having 'flagship' specs at half the price, y wud the average customer go for bb. Even the Google suspecting ppl hav an option with CM.
Its a different thing altogether that i wud lov owning a Sony or Oneplus with the blackberry brand
Posted via the CrackBerry App for AndroidLast edited by blackmass; 09-29-16 at 05:48 AM.
Ed YANG likes this.09-29-16 02:51 AMLike 1 - I suppose you can believe that, but Chen specifically said that they won't be doing this. They are (at the end of the fiscal year, likely after the release of the Rome/Mercury) going to be out of the hardware business and the distribution business. Though they are reserving the right to distribute OEM's designs outside of licensed areas, Chen himself said it was very unlikely that they'd actually do that.
BB's involvement with smartphones (again, after this fiscal year ends) will be limited to licensing the name, software, and perhaps PKB, to OEMs who think they can build a BB that will sell. IMO, there can't be very many of those, and I suspect they'll be small, regional OEMs who build only for their own region (and those regions aren't likely to include Europe or the Americas). Indonesians, South Africans, and Nigerians may be able to buy a new BB smartphone next summer - and it will probably be what we'd consider to be entry-level - but I doubt many people outside those markets will be able to. Of course, I could be wrong...
Posted from my Q10 via CB1009-29-16 07:16 AMLike 0 -
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- Post the dtek50/ 60/ Mercury, i dont c y an oem wud license the bb brand out of specific loyal regions / for bulk customized enterprise orders. Tcl wud do better, selling cheap CM phones to the average customer.
With cheap Chinese phones having 'flagship' specs at half the price, y wud the average customer go for bb. Even the Google suspecting ppl hav an option with CM.
Its a different thing altogether that i wud lov owning a Sony or Oneplus with the blackberry brand
Posted via the CrackBerry App for Androidblackmass likes this.09-29-16 09:55 AMLike 1 -
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