Do you regret getting BB10?

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Polymathic

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With Blackberry's desperate situation brought to the public, the writing is pretty much on the wall that Blackberry 10 is a failed OS. It's not even clear that Blackberry will survive. How many of you regret getting your BB10 device especially those of you who took a 2 year contract.
 
Me!!!! Me!!!! The BB Z10 did not even support my Exchange OWA mail, can you believe that bull....
Thats why i swapped it for an iphone 5.
 
I don't regret it...
Got the Q5 and loving it, there is already a version 10.2 leak, waiting for that update...

Where did you see OS 10 is a fail? all the reviews I've seen didn't worry to much about the OS.. just the device...
 
mmmig said:
I think BB7 devices selling twice as much devices as BB10 and most analysts saying that Blackberry's futures lies in software not hardware it's seems that BB10 is near deaths door
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Sure, and I should've perhaps articulated more clearly that it's not necessarily a poor range/OS but rather a matter of having left things too late. Blackberry is failing because consumer confidence and uptake of BB10 is poor, not because it's a bad product.
 
I don't regret it at all; I love my Z10. Great OS, flexible, and decent hardware. The corporate integration is unsurpassed.
 
HapticSimian said:
Yes... and...? Regardless their future strategy, or how far beyond consumer handsets their business is diversified, they still showed an operating loss of $84,000,000 the previous quarter. That's not the sign of a healthy company.
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It's not exactly desirable, no. But BlackBerry can't just turn on a penny; it's going to be a long way to decent recovery. Also bear in mind that a large part of that loss was due to profits in South America being tied up. Last year same quarter, the loss was $510m; an $84m loss is quite an improvement on that! Revenues and phone sales were actually up too, by about 13%, on the previous quarter.
 
Claymore said:
It's not exactly desirable, no. But BlackBerry can't just turn on a penny; it's going to be a long way to decent recovery. Also bear in mind that a large part of that loss was due to profits in South America being tied up. Last year same quarter, the loss was $510m; an $84m loss is quite an improvement on that! Revenues and phone sales were actually up too, by about 13%, on the previous quarter.
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They're not 'not turning on a penny'; they're the telecoms equivalent of the Knock Nevis!

I do hope they pull through, and $84m is indeed a big improvement over $510m, but their cumulative results over the past 2 years or so must be turning shareholders suicidal.
 
The underlying OS and concept for BB10 is great and the devices on the high end look great the simple problem is that they cannot compete in the consumer space. When RIM and Nokia broke off their prospective collaboration (remember the e61 and e62 in North America had BB service support) both companies did themselves serious harm and opened up the space for consumer orientated smartphones to take hold. 10 years ago a smart phone was a communications device for business use whereas today the iPhone defines the smartphone. I adore the e71 etc ... and would want it over any touch based phone on the market as a smartphone. As I see it the Q10 really has potential - more so than the Z10. And BB's support for Android apps is a smart move.
BB has moved from being a great business service to a consumer gimmic and their main sales are for pseudo smartphones.

If I was an MNO I would seriously look at bringing out a high end business contract pairing a Q5 and an iPod Touch - work and play - because honestly the price gap between the touch and the iPhone is massive and there are users who don't want a touch screen for their communications device (its also a gap between communications and consumption)
 
I don't regret not getting a BB10 if that counts...
 
HapticSimian said:
They're not 'not turning on a penny'; they're the telecoms equivalent of the Knock Nevis!

I do hope they pull through, and $84m is indeed a big improvement over $510m, but their cumulative results over the past 2 years or so must be turning shareholders suicidal.
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The previous quarter was actually a $98m profit, so it's up and down.

I think the whole shareholder thing is part of why they may be looking into going private; it's hard to focus on long-term strategy when your shareholders want short-term profit.
 
I have a friend who wants to swap their Galaxy S4 for a Blackberry Q10. :confused: I can not fathom why.
 
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