The company said getting BB10 ready for prime time is proving “more time consuming than anticipated.” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins added that he will not compromise on BB10 by delivering an inferior product. That's goodnews from a quality standpoint but, by the time BB10 is ready, will it be too late for RIM?
Before the end of the year, Microsoft expects to roll out a highly-anticipated new update to Windows Phone with improved enterprise support (RIM's bread and butter), and Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone .
Google is also generating a lot of excitement with its recently announced Jelly Bean refresh for Android. That's a lot of intense competition to lure BlackBerry users away from their physical keyboard-centric devices and into the shiny touchscreen world of iPhones, Lumias, and Nexus devices.
RIM's Bad Quarter
RIM's news seems to keep getting worse.
The company is laying off another 5000 people , it's losing money, revenue is shrinking, and the company's device shipments for an entire quarter amount to what Apple would consider a few bad weeks.Since March, RIM has shipped just 7.8 million smartphones and 260,000 PlayBook devices. Consider that Apple's most recent quarterly report claims that iPhone sales are topping 35 million and that iPad sales are reaching nearly 12 million. And Google recently reported that it is now activating about one million new Android devices every day.
Be afraid BlackBerry fans, be very afraid.
Courtesy pcworld
nigerians are a very technological backward people. All of them are running after the bb when americans and cannadians have dumped them. Nice work Exg. Ayo protrac
ReplyDeleteIt's not that we are backwards, it's just the class that Nigerians want to show but little do they know that it's outdated.
ReplyDeleteThats serious.....everybody wanna use BB, even if its outdated. In Nigeria who cares let dem sha belong....lolz
ReplyDeleteThat's the Nigerian mentality. I think it's the BBM and the lower subscription on BIS that attract them.
ReplyDeletethe end is already here. Windows 8 on my mind
ReplyDeleteWindows 8 is what we are waiting for come October.
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