Saturday, August 10, 2013

Blackberry to consider selling itself (end of an era?)


Here is a NZ Herald article detailing BlackBerry will consider selling itself after the long-awaited debut of its new phones failed to turn around the struggling smartphone maker.

The BlackBerry, pioneered in 1999, had been the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people and other consumers before Apple debuted the iPhone in 2007 and showed that phones can handle much more than email and phone calls. In the years since, BlackBerry has since been hammered by competition from the iPhone as well as Android-based rivals.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10911650


Blackberry has been in decline the last couple of years because with the current boom of such, with phones using the free open source android software many businesses are moving away from Blackberry as it has license fees per device and requires a costly dedicated server to run.

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