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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 21 2013, 03:19 AM (463 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Sep 21 2013, 03:19 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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It seems like they're effectively exiting the smartphone business. http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-cutting-4500-jobs-2013-9 Not sure they could find a buyer at this point. Sad. Does anyone know anybody with a Blackberry 10? |
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| Axtremus | Sep 21 2013, 04:04 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Poor Mik ... he's still pretty fond of his BlackBerry. And poor Obama ... the Secret Service has so far approved only one smartphone for POTUS' use, and that's a BlackBerry. May be Mik will start to feel like he's in the same boat as Obama and be nicer to him. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 21 2013, 05:01 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Just another indicator of business at warp speed. Cycles that used to take a century now take a decade. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Sep 21 2013, 05:40 AM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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But Mik - do you have the 10 or the 7? I think they are still experiencing some sales of the 7. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 21 2013, 06:44 AM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I have a 7, a 9900. |
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| PhJ | Sep 21 2013, 12:24 PM Post #6 |
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Senior Carp
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wasn't it rumored somewhere that Microsoft had views on buying them (after they fall more I suppose) after buying part of nokia ? |
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| John D'Oh | Sep 21 2013, 03:11 PM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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Putting all the failed smart phone companies together like this makes a lot of sense. If they can combine the style of Blackberry with the hipness of Microsoft, and have it running on a Nokia, we could really see something outside the old Bell curve. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 21 2013, 03:13 PM Post #8 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Yeah. Kind of far to the left.
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| John D'Oh | Sep 21 2013, 03:17 PM Post #9 |
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MAMIL
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Maybe an update to this svelte little number
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| Red Rice | Sep 22 2013, 03:08 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Had an investment advisor try to push Blackberry stock on me just before they introduced the Playbook. So glad I passed. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Axtremus | Sep 23 2013, 10:29 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sold for $4.7 Billion, going private ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/23/blackberry-sale_n_3976373.html |
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| jon-nyc | Sep 23 2013, 10:38 AM Post #12 |
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Cheers
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That's a bold move. |
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| Klaus | Sep 23 2013, 11:34 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't see a way how Blackberry could be saved. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 23 2013, 11:45 AM Post #14 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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My bride won a Plabook. Sucks. We lost it somewhere in the house and do not care, other than I could give it away and take tax deduction. |
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| John D'Oh | Sep 23 2013, 11:47 AM Post #15 |
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MAMIL
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I've lost a lot less money in the last three years than Blackberry. I wonder if anybody would buy me for that much. Admittedly, I don't know much about designing successful cell phones, but I'd be willing to have a bloody good go at it for that kind of cash. I could do an English version of Siri which just told people that I didn't understand what they saying due to their stupid foreign accent. |
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| jon-nyc | Sep 24 2013, 12:36 AM Post #16 |
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Cheers
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The more I read about the buyout offer the more it seems like far from a done deal. We'll see. |
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| jon-nyc | Oct 9 2013, 05:38 PM Post #17 |
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Cheers
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Sounds like they can't find funding. (Really, would you loan money to blackberry?) Breakup might be what's next. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-09/blackberry-is-said-to-warn-to-idea-of-a-breakup.html |
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| Kincaid | Oct 9 2013, 09:11 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This will probably send my stock in TriQuint Semiconductor back into the crapper (where currently it's just circling around and around, dodging floaties and wads of TP). |
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| jon-nyc | Nov 4 2013, 03:24 PM Post #19 |
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Cheers
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No deal on Blackberry. CEO resigns. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/blackberry-abandons-effort-to-sell-itself-c-e-o-to-step-down/?hp |
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