Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Smartphone stragglers: Microsoft and BlackBerry battle to secure third spot

wp8 vs BlackBerry

News of BlackBerry 10's delay last summer was met with doomsday predictions by many, in the midst of a market share decline and a battle to remain relevant. After a boom of BlackBerry capturing the enterprise market, Apple's iPhone debuted in 2007 and changed the game for the entire phone industry — BlackBerry included. The company's stock lost nearly 75 percent of its value by the end of 2011, hitting a seven-year low. Former CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down last year to make way for Thorsten Heins to take a sole CEO position at the company. But can Heins rebuild the empire for a battle to secure third spot or more? We're about to find out.


BlackBerry's first BlackBerry 10 device, the Z10, debuts in the UK tomorrow...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3931966/microsoft-vs-blackberry-third-spot

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