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By: Editorial
15-10-13 – 09:47

The Blackberry Curve. © Reuters.

BlackBerry customers need not worry about the future of the company, says marketing director Frank Boulben. “We’re not going anywhere,” he says in an interview with Reuters.

years experience intense competition from companies like Samsung and Apple and is therefore much market share lost . The Canadian company announced last month to more than a third of dismissing the staff. “BlackBerry is a lot lately in the news,” notes Boulben. “This has given rise to confusion. But our customers need to know that they can count.”

our Open Letter
smartphone manufacturer through social media and newspapers nine countries distributed an open letter highlighting the BlackBerry and its products can be trusted. “We have enough money in the bank and we have no debt,” said the CEO. “We will have to restructure and that is painful, but the company will be financially stronger there and we want our customers to know that. “

Last summer BlackBerry made known several options to consider, including a takeover. Reuters heard from insiders that the company with a number of parties in talks about a partial sale. Google would be one of the interested parties are. And last week, said co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin BlackBerry that they might go make a bid.

BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS
also said Boulben the launch of BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS not long late in coming. The messaging app would actually last month in the digital shelves are, but the launch was postponed. Due to technical problems An older, unofficial version of BBM that was downloaded by several Android users caused difficulties. BlackBerry is confident that these problems will not occur again.

The CEO states that there is much enthusiasm for the app. There were already six million people with an Android device or iDevice have signed up for BBM. An exact release date is not yet known.