Thread: BlackBerry loses almost a billion dollars, blames it on the failed Z10
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2013-09-27 , 16:42
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Originally Posted by Kangal View Post
The Z10 wasn't a bad phone, scratch that it isn't a bad phone.
It just needed more consumer mindshare in my humble opinion.

This means bad news. The third place runner has fallen. Nokia too.
Basically the state of the smartphone market is a duopoly between Samsung and Apple. Samsung has the larger marketshare, Apple has the larger profits. Both have equal influence on the market and each other.
It has been duopoly ever since 2011 when Symbian was officially given its head shot after sliding down in Western markets from Android already. WP is the only one growing with Android at the moment and will likely achieve that 10% market share, but not much further than that.

Blackberry as what it was is dead and will be sold for parts by the consortium. It's a dead end as was WebOS or MeeGo without nearly enough funding to create actual viable ecosystem for the size of the company in such a fierce market.

BBM and patents (how valuable they are will be seen, when Motorola's much more impressive patent holdings have not been worth even near what Google paid for them) might be the new core for the "old" company, like NSN, HERE and Advanced technologies are for the new Nokia.
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