Whether BlackBerry pulled out of the Japanese market without deploying a new terminal, support continued

"BlackBerry Z10" equipped with the new OS "BlackBerry 10" is showing strong sales overseas, but the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that it is a policy to withdraw from the market in Japan.

Blackberry, Japan withdrawal Can not compete with Apple: Nihon Keizai Shimbun
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNZO51486360X00C13A2TJ1000/


In AllThingsD, after receiving the Nikkei coverage, we contact the spokesperson and confirm that "withdraw from the Japanese market".

Confirmed: BlackBerry to Stop Selling Smartphones in Japan - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD
http://allthingsd.com/20130207/blackberry-confirms-no-new-handsets-for-japan/


According to a spokesperson, RIM is sending BlackBerry 10 to the important market worldwide, although it seems that there is a certain demand for the Black Berry Z10, Japan is in a major market for BlackBerry There is no plan to put out BlackBerry 10 terminals because there is no.

In Nikkei, "We judged that expenses such as Japanese language correspondence of basic software (OS) do not match", we report that we have strengthened our policy of withdrawing from the market.

The fact that BlackBerry 's market share in the Japanese market was a tough number in recent years is a fact. In the survey of the comScore of the market research company, BlackBerry's name has disappeared for a while as a Japanese smartphone platform, and in the June 2012 survey, it was kept in "Other" category of only 0.4% share. Since the number of smartphone users in Japan was 24 million at the time of this survey, it means that there were fewer than 96,000 BlackBerry users.

It is said that we can continue to support users for traditional users, but this decision is quite disappointing for Z10's cheerful terminals only.

BlackBerry Z10 - Smartphones - Cell Phones - Mobile Phones at BlackBerry - US
http://us.blackberry.com/