The release of BlackBerry 10 will be postponed to 2013, with 1/3 dismissal of employees determined due to deteriorating business performance

One of the smartphonesBlackBerryIt is a manufacturer ofResearch in Motion (RIM)Announced that the development of the next-generation terminal "BlackBerry 10" will be delayed, and the release will be slipped in 2013. BlackBerry, which is pushing down by the momentum of iPhone and Android and keeping falling, has breathed a breath, RIM has decided to lay off 5,000 people, one third of all employees, and is forced to fight at the edge.

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According to the first quarter report, RIM's first quarter revenue was $ 2.8 billion (about 222.3 billion yen), down 33% from $ 4.2 billion (about 333.5 billion dollars) in the previous quarter. It was 43% down from 4.9 billion dollars (about 389.1 billion yen) compared to one year ago. 59% of the revenue is hardware, 36% is service, 5% is from software and others. It is a well-known fact that the management of RIM is a tough one, and it was rumored that there are personnel arrangements in units of 2000 people, but it was decided to dismiss 5000 people, one third of all employees .

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Also, it was held in MayBlackBerry World 2012, The existence of the new type "BlackBerry 10" that has been developing over a year and a half has become clear, but the schedule of releasing it in 2012 is "not realistic", so that it will be slipped into 2013 became. According to Sourcehen Hinds CEO, the delay is not related to software function or design. The BlackBerry 10 is considered to be a big hurt to RIM only for OSs that have been reversed as "a dual core and LTE highly integrated platform". As for BlackBerry 10, Hynes announced that it is not planning to throw away the Qwerty keyboard, and it seems that both full keyboard and full touch are prepared.

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Analysts said that BlackBerry is devastatingly defeated in the smartphone war with the iPhone and Android and because the market capitalization of RIM has dropped to 1/16 compared to five years ago, I see it is going down a spiral.

By the way, BlackBerry's current market share is 2.09%. It accounts for 62.65% for iOS and 19.69% for Android.

Operating system market share


Share from last yearLooking at it, it has decreased by more than 1% in the past year.


If the release of BlackBerry 10 falls into 2013, it is expected that Apple's new iPhone will come out first, so even a few hope of hope will also die.