Comments on: A Week With BB10: What I Missed in my Lumia; and What I Didn’t

By: James

James — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:33:32 +0000

Well, they actually have “at least” 6 new devices planned for this year, they’ve said that themselves a few times, we only hear about Q10/Z10 so far, but that’s not the entire picture.
It’s way too soon to come to some kind of “conclusive” opinion about anything, those who are keen to do so, are motivated by emotion/bias (in most cases, not all).

By: Hark

Hark — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:23:47 +0000

I think there’s a lot to like with BB10 and for a time I thought BB had a chance to beat WP to number 3. Even with their falling share of the market BB has about 7% to half of that for WP. So if all the old BB7 people were to upgrade to BB10 and people came back to BB from their iPhones they could do well and WP would be trailing hard.

But then you realise, especially here in the UK but it’s the case in most markets, that a lot of BB users are kids hooked on BBM. They have bought cheap Bolds and the Z10 is a flagship device going up against the iPhone, the 920, the Galaxy S3. It’s simply too expensive for a large chunk of their market. The Z10 doesn’t do enough to stop people flooding to the iPhone and against the 920 it’ll come down to personal choice. But where they are going to loose is the bottom and middle markets. Apple don’t have a cheap iPhone (unless you count the 4/s), so that market has been all Android and now that Nokia have the 620 WP marketshare so significantly increase. What do BB have? The Q10 that’s coming in a few months, and we’d don’t even know the price. I’m sorry but it doesn’t matter how good the Z10 is, BB’s strategy is at fault here and they just don’t have a chance until they have phones at all price points and that looks to be yet another few months away by which point I think it will just be too late for them.

So it’s not features, it’s not design, it’s economics that’s going to sink BB.

By: jdpatl

jdpatl — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:56:53 +0000

I did notice that my son’s Lumia 920 used a couple of gigs of data when he updated the OS, but without WiFi configured (or available) at the time of the update.

Make sure to be on WiFi before running a software update. Maybe this isn’t what you had, but it took my son to 75% of his data plan in a couple of nights…

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:58:59 +0000

“Nokia made a NET profit last quarter, while Blackberry had a NET loss last quarter. Is that clear enough for you?’

Whatever made you think you needed to spell that out for me. You seemed to have missed the point, somehow doesn’t surprise me though.

By: correct

correct — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:18:31 +0000

Nokia made a NET profit last quarter, while Blackberry had a NET loss last quarter. Is that clear enough for you?

So yes Blackberry used accounting tricks to “increase” their cash reserves, while Nokia did not. Nokia had cold, hard NET profit which drove up the cash reserves.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:40:04 +0000

How on earth does that “directly relate” to what he was talking about, Jesus you’ve got a one-track/dumb mind.

By: James

James — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:30:15 +0000

What he said isn’t any any less wrong because of your little semantics game. Tax is often portrayed as an evil thing that should NEVER happen too, but (like liabilities) as part of an ‘overall equation’ that isn’t necessarily the case.
Fact remains, all up they are in the black, having some outstanding debt doesn’t change that.

“Blackberry “grew” their cash reserves through some accounting financial trickery, by shuffling money around.”

You say that like similar thing haven’t been done by Nokia, it’s pretty standard fair.

By: correct

correct — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:13:59 +0000

*long-term debt

By: correct

correct — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:13:41 +0000

Just look at the financial statement: long-term itself is classified UNDER liabilities.

By: correct

correct — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:12:11 +0000

Debt is an obligation owed from one party to another party. An unpaid invoice fits that definition exactly, and so do any loans. Loans are classified under liabilities in financial statements.