Straight from the floor of Blackberry Jam which is their developers conference, some news from RIM which made investors giddy enough to push the stock up. First was news that RIM gained subscribers:
The BlackBerry-maker saw its stock price jump more than 5 per cent on Tuesday after it announced its user base has jumped to 80 million users, up from 78 million at the beginning of this month.
Okay. I have to admit that I was kind of surprised at that. But seeing as they report their numbers on Thursday, we’ll find out if it helped their bottom line.
But the news didn’t end there:
Perhaps more important, the company also reassured developers, customers and investors that its new slate of BlackBerrys is still scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2013.
As part of that, they showed off some sample apps and some functionality of Blackberry 10. They even had a video to encourage developers to keep the faith:
Cute. Different. We’ll see if it works.
Before anybody says “see RIM isn’t dead yet” I will say this. We have to see a lot more of this, plus we have to see some number attached to dollar signs before this means anything.
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RIM Makes Some News And Apparently People Care
Straight from the floor of Blackberry Jam which is their developers conference, some news from RIM which made investors giddy enough to push the stock up. First was news that RIM gained subscribers:
The BlackBerry-maker saw its stock price jump more than 5 per cent on Tuesday after it announced its user base has jumped to 80 million users, up from 78 million at the beginning of this month.
Okay. I have to admit that I was kind of surprised at that. But seeing as they report their numbers on Thursday, we’ll find out if it helped their bottom line.
But the news didn’t end there:
Perhaps more important, the company also reassured developers, customers and investors that its new slate of BlackBerrys is still scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2013.
As part of that, they showed off some sample apps and some functionality of Blackberry 10. They even had a video to encourage developers to keep the faith:
Cute. Different. We’ll see if it works.
Before anybody says “see RIM isn’t dead yet” I will say this. We have to see a lot more of this, plus we have to see some number attached to dollar signs before this means anything.
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