they sell 14 million units and they are dead? Common, maybe declining but far from dead.
While you're being criticized for that, I think it's a reasonable point.
Their sales of phones dropped from 14.2 to 14.1 M year over year. Obviously, a decline is bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as I would have expected. Most people were expecting RIM sales to be absolutely destroyed by the iPhone and Android phones. The far that nearly as many people bought Blackberries this year as last year is good news.
It means that there's still some strength in the brand and in their corporate selling strategy. It's at least a sign that things might still be fixable.
RIM is delaying their QNX phones until late 2012, when more powerful chips become available. This means that the QNX OS is bloated like Windows and no current mobile CPU can run it at a decent speed without sucking the life out of the battery in a couple of hours. WebOS would have been a better purchase for RIM.
QNX is a real time OS designed for critical tasks.
I've read somewhere that a few years ago Google made a research on Linux and QNX. They found QNX to be much better than Linux for real-time operations and multitasking, but noted that it needs more processing power.
I've bought 2 playbooks for $200, they run QNX - it's smooth and stable, and the battery life is OK (above many Android tablets but below iPad).
Maybe RIM realizes that "me too" smart-phones will not help them. If they want to clime out of the grave they are falling into, they need to make a class-leading smartphone, with an outstanding battery life - with battery life better than iPhone.
Bullshit! There working products are antiquated and their modern products are incomplete. All their problems stem from poor management, not from "failures in marketing in advertising."
Typical teflon CEO's. When things are going great, it's due to their great vision, and leadership capabilities.
But when things go wrong, it's somebody else's fault.
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they sell 14 million units and they are dead? Common, maybe declining but far from dead.
While you're being criticized for that, I think it's a reasonable point.
Their sales of phones dropped from 14.2 to 14.1 M year over year. Obviously, a decline is bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as I would have expected. Most people were expecting RIM sales to be absolutely destroyed by the iPhone and Android phones. The far that nearly as many people bought Blackberries this year as last year is good news.
It means that there's still some strength in the brand and in their corporate selling strategy. It's at least a sign that things might still be fixable.
RIM is delaying their QNX phones until late 2012, when more powerful chips become available. This means that the QNX OS is bloated like Windows and no current mobile CPU can run it at a decent speed without sucking the life out of the battery in a couple of hours. WebOS would have been a better purchase for RIM.
QNX is a real time OS designed for critical tasks.
I've read somewhere that a few years ago Google made a research on Linux and QNX. They found QNX to be much better than Linux for real-time operations and multitasking, but noted that it needs more processing power.
I've bought 2 playbooks for $200, they run QNX - it's smooth and stable, and the battery life is OK (above many Android tablets but below iPad).
Maybe RIM realizes that "me too" smart-phones will not help them. If they want to clime out of the grave they are falling into, they need to make a class-leading smartphone, with an outstanding battery life - with battery life better than iPhone.
Bullshit! There working products are antiquated and their modern products are incomplete. All their problems stem from poor management, not from "failures in marketing in advertising."
Typical teflon CEO's. When things are going great, it's due to their great vision, and leadership capabilities.
But when things go wrong, it's somebody else's fault.
These guys are an embarrassment.
The CEO's were right.
They are better products, they just aren't cool enough and their marketing is too truthful.
They should just lie.... like 'others' do.
...the return rate on Apple products is quite low
I read the return rate on their iOS devices is not even 2%. Sorry that I can't provide a link. Supposedly it's the lowest in CE.