Michal Ždanský Jean-Louis Gassée on your blog on another bad quarter for BlackBerry:
"Last week, the company published its numbers from the last quarter, and they are interesting, although not in a way that Henis (BlackBerry CEO, editor's note) would like. The forecast was for revenue of $3,4 billion and earnings of $0,07 per share; the reality was 3,1 billion in sales and, more importantly, a loss of $0,13 per share.
Stock market traders were so impressed by the numbers that BBRY shares lost 28% of their value in a single day on the stock exchange, bringing them back to where they were a year ago.'
The success of phone manufacturers obviously depends on how quickly they were able to respond to the introduction of the first iPhone. While Samsung acted relatively quickly, Nokia is coming out of the worst with scratched ears, then BlackBerry is sinking to the very bottom. It's not for nothing that they say in business: "Adapt or die."
Rate the company in Q1 and at a time when new models (Z10, Q10, Q5) are just entering the market and OS10 is in development is completely premature.
Although the shares have fallen, it does not necessarily mean anything. But if this trend were to appear in Q3 or 4, it would be a problem.
As usual on "apple websites", everything has to be compared to "the coolest and best iPhone"...
I replaced the iP5 about a month ago with the Q10 and I am completely satisfied and I would never go back to iOS.
1. It is quite easy to evaluate a company even in Q1, and that's when it significantly falls short of the set estimate, which clearly happened here, it doesn't matter if the new models are only at the beginning of sales, the company simply significantly failed to meet expectations, so it's a FAILURE .
2. Even if the stock went down, it might not really mean anything, but if it went down by more than a quarter of its value in one day, you bet the BBs started tearing their hair out.
3. If you exchanged iPhone 5 for Q10, no one will take it from you, but I don't understand why you continue to follow this website about the "worst" company in the world, and in addition, you contribute to it with such opinions that are absolutely outside of reality, BB is in an incredible crisis and its belittling yourself won't really make you a genius and save society.
That's ok of course.. we all have certain visions. Someone likes to board a sinking ship. It's romantic, definitely. I also recently bought a Nokia. But it's definitely not because I'm not happy with iOS. Actually, you didn't even say what made you angry? :-)