Why Blackberry should try to sell phones in China.
- Hello everyone!
So I'm coming back in France after an one-month internship in Shanghai (China). I loved this country, people... but what I didnt like was the lack of a lot of services (for example, no Google without VPN).
Indeed, I've thought of one thing. The main Blackberry's issue for people in America or France (and many other countries I think) is the lack of apps. But now, with our amazing Android player, almost all of the needed apps are working on our devices. The only apps that still dont work are the Googles services needed ones. But Google play services aren't available in China (without a VPN). Indeed, without this lack of apps, Blackberry can make the difference in China with the Z3 for example,or with the Passport! Why the Passport? Because in Shanghai, everyone likes the "hype". Indeed, why Blackberry doesnt bring a special device for chinese?
I know that John Chen is "affraid" of this hudge market. But I think that Blackberry should try to launch a brand new phone in China.07-26-15 10:09 AMLike 0 - Hello everyone!
So I'm coming back in France after an one-month internship in Shanghai (China). I loved this country, people... but what I didnt like was the lack of a lot of services (for example, no Google without VPN).
Indeed, I've thought of one thing. The main Blackberry's issue for people in America or France (and many other countries I think) is the lack of apps. But now, with our amazing Android player, almost all of the needed apps are working on our devices. The only apps that still dont work are the Googles services needed ones. But Google play services aren't available in China (without a VPN). Indeed, without this lack of apps, Blackberry can make the difference in China with the Z3 for example,or with the Passport! Why the Passport? Because in Shanghai, everyone likes the "hype". Indeed, why Blackberry doesnt bring a special device for chinese?
I know that John Chen is "affraid" of this hudge market. But I think that Blackberry should try to launch a brand new phone in China.
Posted via CB1007-26-15 10:38 AMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-26-15 10:52 AMLike 0 - The Z3 would a bigger dud in China that it has been elsewhere - *nobody* would pay what BBRY wants for their mediocre hardware when there are far more powerful locally made options with their own native android app stores.07-26-15 10:54 AMLike 0
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Posted via CB10TgeekB likes this.07-26-15 10:55 AMLike 1 - To me, I think China needs a completely different device. An exclusive Chinese phone because, by staying one month with Chinese, I know that they love feel unique.
But yes, if we talk about privacy and security it becomes hard to say if BlackBerry would stay here. But I've seen some guys with passport or Q10 so maybe it will works?
Posted via CB1007-26-15 03:41 PMLike 0 - China is the last place Chen should be worried about. Blackberry can't compete there.
Posted via CB1007-26-15 03:49 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-26-15 04:30 PMLike 0 -
But that isn't near as much volume as they'd need.
Posted via CB1007-26-15 04:43 PMLike 0 - Hum don't know.. we have the amazon appstore which work in China. And Google play store doesn't exist yet, there is just the Huawei or Xiaomi stores... Indeed BlackBerry could bring more apps that they could dream currently. They just need to improve the WeChat app.
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Posted via CB1007-26-15 05:04 PMLike 0 - Hum don't know.. we have the amazon appstore which work in China. And Google play store doesn't exist yet, there is just the Huawei or Xiaomi stores... Indeed BlackBerry could bring more apps that they could dream currently. They just need to improve the WeChat app.
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There appear to be two main streams in that market� very price conscious and very aspirational. BBRY faces *considerable* obstacles in both. I wouldn't bother focusing per se on China. Rather make a competitive desirable phone in general that works flawlessly with China Mobile but doesn't challenge local grown and allow to enter via grey market. Will still be a tough battle, though. BBRY doesn't really have strengths that would help there.07-26-15 06:08 PMLike 0 - Prem WatsAppCrackBerry Jester of Jesters
I wouldn't... haha!
� "BB Android Armageddon: Chenisys is uploading in 5,4,3..." �07-26-15 06:25 PMLike 0 -
For a company that keeps parroting privacy, it would make little sense to give that up for an impossibly small share of the Chinese smartphone market.
At one end, there's the dirt cheap Android phones (Xiaomi, Huawei, etc) that BlackBerry can't compete with on a price or app basis. On the other, there's the sell-a-kidney-for-them Apple products that BlackBerry can't compete with on a ostentatiousness or app basis. Not much left for a tepid BB10 device, or even the Priv.
Posted via CB10TgeekB and goku_vegeta like this.09-30-15 12:38 PMLike 2 - Different beasts, in that they aren't really required to hand everything over to the Communist Party while in Hong Kong.
For a company that keeps parroting privacy, it would make little sense to give that up for an impossibly small share of the Chinese smartphone market.
At one end, there's the dirt cheap Android phones (Xiaomi, Huawei, etc) that BlackBerry can't compete with on a price or app basis. On the other, there's the sell-a-kidney-for-them Apple products that BlackBerry can't compete with on a ostentatiousness or app basis. Not much left for a tepid BB10 device, or even the Priv.
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Enterprise has always been a different beast from the consumer market. A company can say here's your phone and they don't have to give a flying (you know what) and that's what you're going to have to use.
Posted via CB1009-30-15 06:28 PMLike 0 - ''BlackBerry has signed over (mostly) global rights to use its branding on phones to Chinese manufacturer TCL. Under the terms of the agreement, TCL will “design, manufacture, sell, and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices,” while BlackBerry will chip in with the software and services''. So I guess now they do have a chinese connection, don't they?Laura Knotek likes this.08-06-20 05:01 PMLike 1
- ''BlackBerry has signed over (mostly) global rights to use its branding on phones to Chinese manufacturer TCL. Under the terms of the agreement, TCL will “design, manufacture, sell, and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices,” while BlackBerry will chip in with the software and services''. So I guess now they do have a chinese connection, don't they?brookie229 likes this.08-06-20 05:19 PMLike 1
- ''BlackBerry has signed over (mostly) global rights to use its branding on phones to Chinese manufacturer TCL. Under the terms of the agreement, TCL will “design, manufacture, sell, and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices,” while BlackBerry will chip in with the software and services''. So I guess now they do have a chinese connection, don't they?
So, you woke up a 5 year old thread to give us 3 year old news of an agreement that ends next month.John Albert and gebco like this.08-06-20 06:28 PMLike 2 -
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- Sorry, you're right.
''Electronics maker TCL Communication, which distributes phones like the BlackBerry Key2 and BlackBerry Motion, will stop selling BlackBerry phones as of August 31, according to a statement that BlackBerry Mobile posted to Twitter on Monday. That's because TCL will no longer retain the rights to manufacture, design, or sell BlackBerry devices past that date.''08-08-20 02:12 PMLike 0
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