The
price of shares in the company that makes the devices has plunged
after it posted a loss in the first quarter of this financial year.
Research
In Motion also warned of future losses despite releasing its
make-or-break new smartphones.
The
company announced that it will no longer make new versions of its
slow-selling tablet device, The Playbook.
RIM
said it sold 6.8 million phones overall in the first quarter compared
to 7.8 million last year.
Mike
Walkley, an analyst with Canaccoord Genuity, said it's clear the new
operating system has not turned the company around.
‘With
Z10, Q10, and Q5 all shipping in the August quarter and BlackBerry
still guiding to a loss we believe that is strong evidence BB10 has
not turned around BlackBerry in an extremely competitive smartphone
market,’ Mr Walkley said.
Chief
Executive Thosten Heins said that the ‘transition takes time’ and
noted things are better compared to last year when ‘we were told
the company was finished’.
Shares
in Research in Motion Ltd lost 29 per cent of their value during
trading this morning.
The
share price crash was prompted by the Canadian company’s admission
said that it lost £55 million in the three months period which ended
on June 1.
But how is this possible, it’s the most popular phone in Nigeria and it still losing money?. Abi na UK use and Secondhand all of us dey use? Aba Naija!!!
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