Blackberry outlines final days as marketplace share falls to 0%
The smartphone builder sole usually 207,900 a use BBOS. PHOTO: AFP
Once a many iconic smartphone brands, Blackberry is roughly strictly a non-player in a consumer products game.
Research organisation Gartner has published its report on worldwide smartphone manufacturers’ marketplace share, observant that Blackberry has depressed next 1 per cent globally.
The news on worldwide smartphone sales shows that some-more than 432 million smartphones were sole in a final entertain of 2016, usually 207,900 of that featured BlackBerry’s handling software.
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This puts a Canadian manufacturers marketplace share during a small 0.0481%.
In comparison, a large 352.7 million inclination sole ran Google Android OS giving it a vital marketplace share of 81.7% while Apple came in second that sole 77 million and holding a marketplace share of 17.9%.
PHOTO: GARTNER
It is value discuss that Google’s Android OS is accessible to all smartphone manufacturer for free, that creates it a handling complement of choice for low-end smartphone manufacturers. Recent Blackberry phones also run on Android.
Apple, on a other hand, boundary iOS to a inclination only.
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Blackberry was once a many sought after smartphone, used essentially by professionals for a heading QWERTY keyboard and BBM messaging platform.
However, a once iconic code was dethroned after Apple suggested a insubordinate hold shade smartphone that altered a mobile phone marketplace forever. Falling sales caused also led Blackberry to outsource all production of smartphones final Sep and concentration on program and non-consumer products.
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