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How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Dead brands ()
Date: February 23, 2012 01:33PM

Has anyone under 40 actually bought a new Blackberry within the last 2 years? They look like they're about to go into free-fall. I don't know anyone at all who is even considering a Blackberry as their next cell phone. Everyone wants an Android or iPhone. Blackberry = Kodak. great brands about to die.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Stymied ()
Date: February 23, 2012 01:46PM

Dead brands Wrote:
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> Has anyone under 40 actually bought a new
> Blackberry within the last 2 years? They look
> like they're about to go into free-fall. I don't
> know anyone at all who is even considering a
> Blackberry as their next cell phone. Everyone
> wants an Android or iPhone. Blackberry = Kodak.
> great brands about to die.


There will always be a niche market for Blackberry that will keep it afloat. Hell, the government's purchasing power alone could keep RIM solvent.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: doh ()
Date: February 23, 2012 01:48PM


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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: InTheAir ()
Date: February 23, 2012 01:58PM

It's always easy to tell when I go on business trip and I have returned to the DC area...this is the ONLY place in the U.S. where Blackberrys outnumber iPhones.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Olde Farte ()
Date: February 23, 2012 02:22PM

I thought I just read within the last day or so that only about 17% of current Blackberry users are planning to upgrade...or something like that (can't find article).

RIM is indeed in trouble.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: doh doh ()
Date: February 23, 2012 02:57PM

doh Wrote:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/30/blackbe
> rry-is-number-one-selling-smart-phone_n_1241810.ht
> ml?ref=uk-tech

Your resources is based on GfK reports:

"GfK’s figures also appear to run contrary to others released by WPP’s Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which found that, in fact, it was Android that took the lion’s share of sales in the UK market in the final quarter of 2011. It claimed that RIM took only 16.1 percent of sales in the UK for the 12 weeks that ended December 26—a decline of 7.3 percent—while Android took just under 44 percent of sales, growth of 8.4 percent. Apple’s share grew the most, by 12 percent, to end at 34 percent of all sales."

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-rim-in-trouble-in-europe-not-in-the-uk-it-claims/


"This has lead some to suggest that GfK is breaking down each Android manufacturor (Samsung, HTC, etc) into a different brand which makes sense."

http://www.berryreview.com/2012/01/30/gfk-says-rim-is-1-smartphone-brand-in-the-uk-for-second-year/



If you really wanna know how biased the GfK report is, go here: http://www.gfknop.com/pressinfo/releases/singlearticles/003068/

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Date: February 23, 2012 03:06PM

Blackberry is the new Palm.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Tea Leaves ()
Date: February 23, 2012 03:09PM

In less than 6 mos. Their stock is crap, and their cuts in employees and lack of new models says it all.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Hay Zeus ()
Date: February 23, 2012 03:09PM

The recent commerical they've been airing kind of says it all. Hip-Hop and BlackBerry is not a natural combination.

Whats their big advantage, better security?

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: raheem935 ()
Date: February 23, 2012 05:46PM

yes better security and email

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: justsayin ()
Date: February 23, 2012 05:51PM

What is this company called Blackberry? Does it have anything to do with the company iPhone?

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Slap m' fro ()
Date: February 23, 2012 06:08PM

justsayin Wrote:
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> What is this company called Blackberry? Does it
> have anything to do with the company iPhone?


God damn racists here. Is there no place I can go without someone throwing out the race card?

Why ain't there no damn Whiteberry? Why is all the bad things black? Black Friday, Black Monday, black this black that, now Blackberry, and the damn thing ain't no good?

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Warhawk ()
Date: February 23, 2012 06:17PM

Blackberry's strength is its email. But with the apps and mobile Internet that alone isnt enough, especially since 99% of smartphone users use theirs to waste time.

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

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Re: How long til Blackberry goes under?
Posted by: Hay Zeus ()
Date: February 23, 2012 07:03PM

This reminds me of the old don and mike show bit when Don would call Marion Berry on his "black berry" and ramble on for a few minutes.....ahhh, the good ole days of wjfk

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