The news gets worse for BlackBerry. After having three execs head for the exits, there comes a report from IDC which The Globe And Mail picked up on saying that their marketshare has plummeted:
New numbers from International Data Corporation (IDC) suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm sold 6.8 million handsets in the second quarter of 2013, good for 2.9 per cent of the market. That’s an 11.7 per cent decline from the same quarter in 2012 when it sold 7.7 million handsets and held 4.9 per cent of the market.
These declines saw BlackBerry “reaching levels not seen in the history of IDC’s Mobile Phone Tracker,” the IDC report said. Worringly, the 2013 data captures early sales from the launch of BlackBerry’s new operating system and two of its three new devices.
Not good. What makes this worse is the fact that Windows Phone sales have blown past BlackBerry sales, largely powered by Nokia phone sales. That has to have execs in Waterloo wondering what they have to do to turn things around.
Predictably, BlackBerry stock dropped 3% on the news. Another non-confidence vote in the company.
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BlackBerry Marketshare Now 2.9%: IDC
The news gets worse for BlackBerry. After having three execs head for the exits, there comes a report from IDC which The Globe And Mail picked up on saying that their marketshare has plummeted:
New numbers from International Data Corporation (IDC) suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm sold 6.8 million handsets in the second quarter of 2013, good for 2.9 per cent of the market. That’s an 11.7 per cent decline from the same quarter in 2012 when it sold 7.7 million handsets and held 4.9 per cent of the market.
These declines saw BlackBerry “reaching levels not seen in the history of IDC’s Mobile Phone Tracker,” the IDC report said. Worringly, the 2013 data captures early sales from the launch of BlackBerry’s new operating system and two of its three new devices.
Not good. What makes this worse is the fact that Windows Phone sales have blown past BlackBerry sales, largely powered by Nokia phone sales. That has to have execs in Waterloo wondering what they have to do to turn things around.
Predictably, BlackBerry stock dropped 3% on the news. Another non-confidence vote in the company.
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