Have you ever gotten an SMS telling you had a missed call, yet there is no record on your phone? If you had you're not the only one. This phenomenon is now more common in this day and age when Smart phones and tablets perform less reliably in terms of radio communications compared to older feature phones...
Problem with this missed calls are they could be a very big missed opportunity like all things in technology a missed opportunity cost a lot of money. Having said that the biggest missed opportunity in my perspective is BlackBerry, they missed the smartphone opportunity worth more than 80B$ per quarter to Apple and Samsung today.
To those who still holds share on BlackBerry its hard to find solace considering the company dont have much value today. What to do with your BlackBerry shares? The question is who might want to buy BlackBerry?
Let's see. They have poor products, bad hardware, bad software, poor ecosystem, bad management. Who wants any of those? The only way they can sell the company is to sell it in bits and pieces since some parts can still be valuable. The only potential buyer of BlackBerry and its entirety would be Chinese companies such as Huawei. BlackBerry is still a big brand in Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East and South Africa, markets where Huawei have a successful presence and the acquisition will make sense even without the US market.
Having said that such acquisition will never be approved by the Canadian government nor US regulators. They would rather throw money to save it or let it go bankrupt like Nortel and will make a big mess of it where the only winners are lawyers.
Problem with this missed calls are they could be a very big missed opportunity like all things in technology a missed opportunity cost a lot of money. Having said that the biggest missed opportunity in my perspective is BlackBerry, they missed the smartphone opportunity worth more than 80B$ per quarter to Apple and Samsung today.
To those who still holds share on BlackBerry its hard to find solace considering the company dont have much value today. What to do with your BlackBerry shares? The question is who might want to buy BlackBerry?
Let's see. They have poor products, bad hardware, bad software, poor ecosystem, bad management. Who wants any of those? The only way they can sell the company is to sell it in bits and pieces since some parts can still be valuable. The only potential buyer of BlackBerry and its entirety would be Chinese companies such as Huawei. BlackBerry is still a big brand in Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East and South Africa, markets where Huawei have a successful presence and the acquisition will make sense even without the US market.
Having said that such acquisition will never be approved by the Canadian government nor US regulators. They would rather throw money to save it or let it go bankrupt like Nortel and will make a big mess of it where the only winners are lawyers.
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