We gave positive reviews to BlackBerry 10, the BlackBerry Z10, and the BlackBerry Q10. We like them, and a few million of you have bought them this year. We’re here to warn the rest of you to stop. Just stop. We’ve continually said that BlackBerry still has a chance, but we have lost what faith we had. BlackBerry is too unstable to recommend to anyone.
BlackBerry has canceled 2 phones and BlackBerry World 2014, according to a new report. It will be at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in January, but appears to be focusing on BBM.
Yesterday, we found out that BlackBerry fired its CEO Thorsten Heins, failed to get acquired by anyone, and will now take a $1 billion investment from a group of long-term investors (FairFax Financial) who decided not to (or weren’t able to) buy BB, but desperately want to see it stay alive and return to form. Heins walked away with around $16 million and the Canadian smartphone maker appointed John Chen, former CEO of business software company Sybase, to step in as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.
Despite publicly putting itself up for sale back in August, BlackBerry is still on its own.
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