This sales rep argument is old and stupid.
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This sales rep argument is old and stupid.
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just reply to his tweet and rip him another sphincter .
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Once again, that's all of the US carriers. I agree with ya'll. American carriers all suck when it comes to BlackBerry uodates....but that's it...its not just Tmobile. The choice is still there though if they want the device, no matter what the sales people say.
Well the choice is there for everyone except for Tmobile customers lol
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"x+%" is a pretty common way of indicating that it is higher than X without being specific.
Without knowing the revenue derived from that 500000 vs the cost to maintain, hard to say. Anyway, as of right now TMo is not abandoning that existing 1%, are they?
In the future, if a significant percentage of that 1% prefers to stay with TMo despite not being able to get a BBRY, then cutting ties with BBRY isn't much of a loss to TMo at all. May not be nice to think about, but there it is.
I agree they all stink. But some stink more than others.
I can't imagine TMo runs on a system where they would lose money on supporting half a million customers. If they do they are doing business seriously wrong.
Also all their main 4 platforms make up 1+% of their market. He specifically chose the 1+% figure to marginalize BB without quoting a proper statistic. It may not be much better, but some posters on this discussion continue saying BB makes up less than one percent when in fact it makes up more, however little more, it is more than 1%.
Exactly lol....is it Tmobile though? I'd argue not lol. People can sat what they will about Tmobile's CEO and the "disses" in these tweets but look at sprint. They have the Q10 and don't even have 10.2.1......LMAO. AT&T has exactly the same options of Tmobile's yet don't have 10.2.1. I'd ask why on earth Verizon paid for a BlackBerry exclusive and did NOTHING to promote it. It makes me think they were just the only carrier that wanted it. All these carriers have fault when it comes to supporting BlackBerry as we have said. I do believe though that people have blown these tweet out of proportion. They were not disses but facts.
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Spot on you are. You may not like what he is doing but he is running a business. He sells 99 android and/iphones for every 1 BB device. Where do you expect him to put his resources. People here make it sound like it's his responsibility to build BB's brand recognition. T-mobile begged apple for years to get the iphone. Why? PEOPLE WANT THE IPHONE. APPLE IS GENIUS AT MARKETING THEIR PHONES. If everybody wanted BB devices- of BB were genius at creating demand for their products- Tmobile would never have let them get away. The "reality" is very few people want BB devices. If tomorrow, T-mobile said "from this point forward" we will only sell BB10 Devices". How long do you think they would be in business. About 1 quarter before their new subscriber base dwindled to nothing. Get real Crackberry folks.
That's my though too, Verizon was the only one wiling to take a chance on it because they make a lot of money and is the biggest carrier around.
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Exactly....some people say it was an exclusive, while others say that no one else wanted it. I honestly don't know at this point. U could make s argument either way but Sprint infamously passed on the Z10 for the next full touch device in the pipeline....lol that never materialized.
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THe problem with your analysis is that there is a cost to Tmobile with maintaining a product line. There is a supply cost, a logistic cost, a support cost, a service cost etc. etc. etc. While some of these costs are variable costs many are fixed and will be there whether you sell 1 million phones or 1 phone. My guess is T-mobile has figured that it sells so few BB phones , that the revenue it generates from BB customers doesn't justify the cost of keeping the BB product line. No doubt that is why they tried the promotion encouraging people to switch. I think T-mobile made the decision to terminate the relationship with BB long ago around the time they offered that promotion. The annoucement today I think was a forgone conclusion
This!
He was going to pay ppl to switch, and his company didn't police their sales people enough to know they were trashing BlackBerry (that's IF they didn't encourage the trashing themselves)
What a joke
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Did you quote yourself for emphasis?
The supply cost is minimal when you don't stock in stores. The support for most smartphones is handled by all the same support staff, other than specialty support, in this case however they usually just mail the product back to BB. The service cost is there for all devices. You can try to make it sound like its costing them to support BlackBerry, but it isn't costing them anymore per phone than it is for any other phone. Half a million in sales is still half a million. Don't blow the costs of supporting different hardware out of proportion. At the end of the day they're all running on the same network with the same support staff.
after the stupid decision they made last time on the blackberry trade in promotion you would think this guy would back off. Obviously he is out trying to make some cheap publicitiy for himself. Do everyone a favour Mr Legere and shut it. Permanently. your mouth that is.
Not that serious.
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I'm sure this has already been said but - love the irony of him tweeting about choice when BlackBerry customers couldn't even find phones in his stores because he refused to stock them. Thanks for the "choice".
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Legere's version of "reality" is akin to someone hallucinating on mescaline arguing with a telephone pole.
Mescaline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Behavioral and non-behavioral effects[edit]
Mescaline induces a psychedelic state similar to those produced by LSD and psilocybin, but with unique characteristics. Subjective effects may include altered thinking processes, an altered sense of time and self-awareness, and closed- and open-eye visual phenomena.
Prominence of color is distinctive, appearing brilliant and intense.
Definitely altered thinking processes and distorted sense of self.
And NOW I know what explains that damn pink color!!! :rotfl:
I can't wait to hear what sort of "disrespect" you think BlackBerry has been dishing out to T-Mobile. LOL
OH NOES!! Perennial BlackBerry critics found a new excuse to bash the company and its users! BIG SURPRISE! :rotfl:
We are sitting here with popcorn waiting for the next tweet, so your butthurt detection circuitry seems kinda broken. Meanwhile, some CEO with a lot of time on his hands is tweeting a lot of ... butthurt. :laughing: .
Legere is a front. He's the man they sent out to be the face of T-Mobile and he's very good at it, though people are now catching on.
Now that is an awesome collection of tweets. :D
All I can say is, don't feed the...bird people.
-STV on Z10STL100-3/10.2.1.2228 TMO US
They pulled the BlackBerry lineup from their website, and pulled all sorts of antics to damage the relationship between the companies.
Not to mention, t mobile's user base overwhelmingly rejects BlackBerry. Pointless to continue the business relationship.
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If someone doesn't understand the technology they are putting their trust onto these said reps, if the reps are steering them cause of bonuses for selling something else than what would suit them, then they will be talked out of it, research or not!!!!!! That's the way it is in all sales and service!!!!!!!
T-mobile reps were not helping the case, much like any of the American stores. T-mobile was just stupid and arrogant enough to get caught with a flyer!!!!! Now they lose a company working with them, have it in the media that they are difficult to work with, and lost market share with people tired of their arrogance!! Looks good on em!
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Can we frame this post and put it on the wall of BB HQ?
