BlackBerry has announced that it is has essentially put itself up for sale. So where did it all go wrong for Canadian firm which was once a leader in the mobile industry?
The company's official statement reads, "The Company's Board of Directors has formed a Special Committee to explore strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment. These alternatives could include, among others, possible joint ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the Company or other possible transactions."
It's not the end of BlackBerry, not yet anyway, but things aren't exactly looking rosy. So, rather than give you all the boring financial details and graphs of share prices, we've put together a list of five reasons it all went downhill for BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 10 delay
RIM changed its name to BlackBerry with the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system but this did little to distract from the fact it had been consistently delayed over and over again. The delay lasted many months rather than just a few weeks and didn't exactly fill its customers with hope.
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