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By: editors
30-4-13 – 16:20 Source: Reuters

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks tablets are useless in five years. What we have to use, he says to Bloomberg, but he claims that devices like the iPad offer a viable business model.

The statement is bold as a BlackBerry some years back just inzette on the PlayBook as iPad-killer. However, the tablet of the company came completely off the ground, according to experts partly due to the lack of e-mail functionality. Despite the disappointing sales of the PlayBook tablet and his belief that ‘dead on arrival’ are, Heins does not rule out that there are still new tablets of Canadian-made come. “As long as it makes money,” is his motto.

Without tablet, but with the existing smartphonetak think Heins to dominate. Market in five years “In five years we are the market leader in mobile field. I will in the coming years to conquer market share as much as possible without it we go imitate, “says the CEO competitors sneering towards Samsung.