BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
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Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#2The timeless story of Ozymandias -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias -- (if you don't know the 1818 sonnet by Shelley, read it before downvoting. It's relevant and timeless)
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
EDIT: Thanks for the link to the excellent Breaking Bad video. For what it's worth, I haven't seen an episode since season 3 so didn't realize the coincidence. My pop culture connection would have been to Watchmen.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#3NO. Teary eyed. :(
3.7 million phone sales are nothing. Only if they had copied iOS the Samsung way in time.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#4Was digging up some numbers. In 2010, BlackBerry still sold more phones than Apple.
How the mighty have fallen.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#5NO. Teary eyed. :( 3.7 million phone sales are nothing. Only if they had copied iOS the Samsung way in time.
Or used Samsung hardware in their device! ;)
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#6NO. Teary eyed. :( 3.7 million phone sales are nothing. Only if they had copied iOS the Samsung way in time.
Why? The problem isn't with the phones. The Z10 and Q10 are fantastic and BB10 is probably the best business-centric OS ever written. The problem is that the applications are just not there, and that people associate BlackBerry with reboots, battery pulls, and outdated, clunky software, even though that's not the case.
It's an image problem, not a phone problem. They can't market like Apple used to. If they could, they would get more sales, but their marketing is just pitiful.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#7It's unfortunate, as someone who just purchased a Q10 (switched from Android), I think they've finally got their act together and released something excellent.
The Q10's battery life is great, the hardware keyboard is solid and travels well. The Paratek antenna gets the best reception and data connection of any device I've ever used. The BB10 software isn't great, but it's decent. (It's certainly far better than where WebOS / iOS / Android was when they launched. Even today, BB10.2 is significantly better / more powerful than Windows Phone 8, even if the UI is less well defined).
Their story, to me, seems almost down to timing. They're executing pretty well right now, it's just two to three years too late.
It will be sad to watch all that hardware die. In a year or two, there probably won't be any devices available that have a large battery, solid hardware keyboard, and decent cellular data reception.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#8The timeless story of Ozymandias -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias -- (if you don't know the 1818 sonnet by Shelley, read it before downvoting. It's relevant and timeless) I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sc…
There's something particularly ironic about calling Ozymandias timeless.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#9It's unfortunate, as someone who just purchased a Q10 (switched from Android), I think they've finally got their act together and released something excellent. The Q10's battery life is great, the hardware keyboard is solid and travels well. The Paratek antenna gets the best reception and data connection of any device I've ever used. The BB10 software isn't great, but it's decent. (It's certainly far better than wher…
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Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#10The timeless story of Ozymandias -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias -- (if you don't know the 1818 sonnet by Shelley, read it before downvoting. It's relevant and timeless) I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sc…
There's something particularly ironic about calling Ozymandias timeless.
It's a bit of a "the king is dead; long live the King!" thing. There will always be an Ozymandias.