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they've figured out how to bring their fans back. this is the kind of innovative thinking blackberry needed.quote:BlackBerry Ltd. is seeking to win back once-devoted customers by bringing back a popular set of command keys that the company had abandoned with the launch of a new family of smartphones this past year.
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looks like motorola was lenovo's consolation prize (with reporting from Blackula69) quote:BlackBerry tried to sell itself to Chinese computer giant Lenovo last year. But CBC News has learned the company got a firm no when it approached the federal government to find out if the bid would be approved. Pinterest Mom fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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blackberry gonna monetise bbm by selling stickers and ads and also it'll come preloaded on nokia's android monstrosities
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Blackula69 posted:guys blackberry actually made a profit and cut operating expenses by more than half since last year well they had an operating loss still but a really tiny one. this looks like good news for blackberry 
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Blackula69 posted:not by the gaap results, and that's all that counts no gaap/non-gaap is an important distinction, and if you literally don't know anything else you should go with the gaap results. but so is operating/realised. we know exactly why blackberry turned a profit, and it's not things that they'll be able to do next quarter or next year. the operating results are most important when you're looking at the long-term health. (and at a loss of only 60 million, they're unexpectedly good!)
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Blackula69 posted:also that's blackberry's second tax refund in the past 6 months, as discussed by me in this thread the December refund was an extraordinary advance against their 2013 refund and the one for this quarter was just the remainder of their refund from 2013, returned on schedule because tax season (and presumably blackberry did accounting magic during December to shuffle money around and make their refund bigger)
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Blackula69 posted:and he talks about constantly cheating on her with her knowledge "You can gently caress her if you want, in front of me... she lets me gently caress girls in front of her all the time" sounds like a ~healthy non-monogamous relationship~
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Bonzo posted:I live in Waterloo and work with several ex RIM employees. In 2005 it was an awesome company to work for and had all the perks you would expect a tech company to have. Once 2007 hit, things went south really bad. Every more you made was watched. You got 30 minutes for lunch and god help you if you were late. Most employees also were jaded because management changed every 6 months. You'd get a new manager who would be "We are going to do it THIS way" and then 6 months later he would go somewhere else and the new guy would be "Forget THIS! We are now doing it THAT way" . So no one really cared about performance because they knew it would just soon change anyway. i hope kevin got out okay
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200,000 preorders for passport.
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ahmeni posted:But none of this changes one fact: The Passport is big. Super big. So big that I could show it to my kids’ friends and convince most of them that it is some sort of Cro-Magnon relic from the 1990s. My iPhone often ended up in a shirt pocket. But that feels awkward with the Passport. In fact, there are a few shirts I own that actually do not permit this without busting the pocket stitching. When I asked my wife to try it with some of her blouses, she couldn’t get the Passport to fit in any of them. Even in my pants, the Passport was an awkward fit. It really only makes sense in a jacket, briefcase or purse. So to state the obvious: This business-oriented phone is hardly the ideal phone for, say, the beach or hiking trail. current headline is Why I ditched my iPhone for Blackberry’s massive new Passport, the url has it as why-im-hooked-on-the-clunky-new-blackberry-passport-the-worlds-first-male-gendered-smartphone
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further laffs from that review:quote:Because of its radically different form, the Blackberry Passport alters the very idea of a Smartphone in a manner that must be termed existential. With my iPhone, I’d gotten used to lazily holding it in my right hand, casually swiping through tweets and emails with my thumb as I drank coffee with my left. The Passport, on the other hand, demands the commitment of two hands, because (in my case, at least) the right thumb can’t get past the T button. That sounds like a drawback, and it certainly feels like one when, say, you’re using an umbrella or trying to keep a door open for someone in an office building lobby. But it also made me less tempted to use the Passport at times when a person really, really shouldn’t be using a Smartphone — such as when you’re stuck in traffic. "impractically huge... but that's a feature!!"
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yeah they took it down once it got noticed, obvsqirex posted:now some poor entry level pr employee has to use a blackberry you can sideload the android version 
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Blackberry stock skyrocketed Wednesday afternoon after a report that the device maker had been approached by Samsung about a potential takeover. At its high, Blackberry was up more than 21 percent.
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terrifyingly, the largest investor in the country
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they have part ownership of everything. they fully own a bunch of malls and condo towers(through cadillac fairview), partly own european airports, rail lines, a bunch of power and water utilities, they own the UK lottery outright (??!), they have multi-hundred million dollars stakes in basically every major us corporation
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ontario teachers are spending 2 billion dollars to build 5 gigantic condo towers around the bell centre in downtown montréal, essentially creating a new neighbourhood out of scratch
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apple should release iMessage for android and blackberry, but keep the green bubble for non-iphone havers
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you'll always be able to tell when the guy you're chatting with on grindr is a blackberry user
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"Like fine wine, BlackBerry Passport gets better with age": actual headline
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I like the iPhone 6 Plus and my Android phones, but the BlackBerry Passport gets things done more efficiently and is a joy to use. Every time I pick up the Passport, I feel I have a rock solid phone in my hand that I know won't let me down.
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Nagato posted:8,000 units reminds me of the famous rumor that the Kin sold exactly 503 units unfortunately, that rumour was false there were at least 8,810 users of the kin Facebook app 
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though i guess you can imagine 8300 kins were given away to microsoft employees/beta testers and 500 were sold
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i found the problem "Excluding one-time items, quarterly profit was $20 million, or 4 cents a share." is actually "Non-GAAP earnings of $0.04 per share" "GAAP net loss for the quarter was $148 million, or $0.28 per share"
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and they were cashflow positive thanks to a 105 million firesale of assets, mostly a bunch of patents
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do they still have real estate left
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looking at the q3 2015 financial statement, they had 1.1 billion in real estate+plants+equipment a year ago and six months later they had 588 million everything must go (the equivalent document for the most recent quarter isn't available yet) e: oh, found it, 556 million in the most recent quarter. the drop from 588 million is probably mostly depreciation. Pinterest Mom fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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the canadian media establishment is seeing signs of trouble for blackberry
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you mean "again" right they bought 90 million worth of shares in november
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Canadian Member of Parliament poses with new Blackberry, March 30th 2015
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it's Peter Stoffer, who also owns Radical Wayne is an MPP, not an MP.
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the chief economist for Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition
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quote:Tarnishing an Unsound Argument John Chen is a distinguished and proven leader in the technology industry. Prior to joining BlackBerry, he served as Chairman and CEO of Sybase Inc., where he developed and led the company’s re-invention from a mature, slower-growth technology company into a $1.5 billion-plus high-growth innovator. Under his direction, Sybase became the leading provider of enterprise mobility and mobile commerce solutions, achieving 55 consecutive quarters of profitability.
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the leader of the official opposition has a new ad, mostly notable for his blackberry from 0:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnrZqIk2fI&t=21s
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nonono, blackberry has three instagrams of coh, implausibly. (though they also have two instagrams of debt, so they're net one instagram, which isn't bad at all)
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microsoft has more like two ubers of cash on hand.
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take a shot whenever someone says "quantum valley"
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The Kins posted:reuters is reporting that blackberry is rumored to be considering throwing its metaphorical hands up, going "gently caress it" and just flat-out releasing an android finally, a device with the security of an android and the usability of a blackberry
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A Pinball Wizard posted:it didnt? symbian->android
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