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is evident from the figures for the first quarter of the year 2014 which were broken Friday presented.
In the months of April, May and June were therefore 6.8 million Blackberry’s over the counter. The previous quarter there were six million, but 7.8 million a year ago. It therefore seems better to go with Blackberry. Thanks to the introduction of the Blackberry Z10 and Q10 There were 2.7 million BlackBerry 10 devices shipped.
There went the last three months also 100,000 PlayBook tablets over the counter.
Move the cursor over the line to see the numbers . The data comes from Blackberry. View a larger version. – (C) NU.nl / Jerry Warn
Revenues amounted to $ 3.1 billion. That’s more than the $ 2.7 billion the previous quarter and more than a year ago when sales totaled 2.8 billion. 71 percent of sales at Blackberry comes from the sale of hardware. 26 percent comes from services and 3 percent from software and ‘other income’.
Despite the sales increase was a loss of 84 million dollars.
“In the past quarter we have focused on the global rollout of BlackBerry,” said CEO Thorsten Heins referring to the new operating system from the company. “We are still in the first phase of the launch. Next three quarters, we will expand our investment in new products.”
Move the cursor over the line to see the numbers . The data comes from Blackberry. View a larger version. – (C) NU.nl / Jerry Warn
That is not the only future plan that Blackberry has. In addition to a focus on smartphones the company wants to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), in the Netherlands known as Ping, make a leading communications app on various platforms. With BBM users can chat with each other like for example via Whatsapp.
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