Originally Posted by
birdman_38 John Chen seems to be changing strategy every quarter.
I think he's a simple fact of he's not sharing it with you personally. I bet the view he shares with his execs of what he plans over 36 months and 12 quarters is very different from what you see, which is the random leavers he's pulling.
His only stated goal this year to to return BlackBerry to break-even ... so he's lowering operating expenses, re-negotiating terms, filling the product pipeline with stuff to appeal to where they are stronger vs. weaker and grabbing revenue where he can.
You're looking at it in a bit of a binary way, one initiative at a time. It's fair because you aren't being given the big picture, but I doubt any of us will gleam his strategy from individual sound bytes and one off looks at specific initiatives.
It's also possible he has multiple goals ;-)
For example:
Saying, "I plan to focus my marketing efforts on enterprise" does not necessarily mean, "I am abandoning consumer altogether" anymore than it means "focusing on selling handsets to enterprises means I am not putting QNX into cars". Each of his four businesses need to perform.