BBM Available for Android and iPhone

Re:BBM Available for Android and iPhone by jrn on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @07:38PM (#6408905)

I don't think that's bad news. But the markets disagreed and the price took a hit. It's been awesome to see the new management's discipline, should have cut earlier but they got the major planks laid out, new os, android run time, backend services, browser. Just refinements left. Employee count to revenue is getting good. 6 devices a year. Simple. And the new phone has the paratek antenna, this is going to be close.

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Re:BBM Available for Android and iPhone by nl on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @07:43PM (#6408926)

And the new phone has the paratek antenna, this is going to be close

So the new antenna is what will save BlackBerry?

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Re:BBM Available for Android and iPhone by jrn on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @07:59PM (#6408971)

No fiscal discipline, and execution. Battery life on the new 5" phone is a couple days. Maybe the tunable radio helps. App gap is closing, unity ports, android, bloomberg is now on it. Maps suck. I don't know if they'll make it, aka survive, it is going to be close.

Edit,I don't know if the app gap is closing. But probably not.

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Re:BBM Available for Android and iPhone by wpnx on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @10:59PM (#6409512)

BB is beyond fiscal discipline IMO.

It's pretty clear they'll be gutted and sold for parts at this point. They're trying to lose weight before the fashion show.

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