The former sales champion blackberry is losing its most loyal users - the Obama administration. The former sales champion blackberry is losing its most loyal users - the Obama administration.
, according to a new report from the United States today, according to a memo in the U.S. senate this week the Obama administration will no longer receive the blackberry, instead of android and iPhone. As is known to all, Obama himself was once the world's most famous "blackberry powder".
According to the memo, the blackberry company to the telecom operator Verizon and AT&T, said the company had stopped, including Q10 and Z10 five versions of the blackberry OS10 equipment supply, and does not guarantee that the future would be restored.
Blackberry company in the USA today said in a statement, at present, the company only stopped the blackberry Classic models of production.
"We've informed the carrier will stop blackberry Classic production, but in most of the market, other 10 versions of the blackberry smartphone will also continue to sell." Blackberry company said, the company is currently focused on the blackberry 10 version update, will next month to update to version 10.3.3, and plan to update again next year.
Memo also shows that the United States senate will continue to use after purchasing blackberry inventory, the blackberry will continue to provide maintenance services and technical support. At the same time, the staff of the senate will gradually transition to the use of samsung S6 iPhoneSE android phones and apple.
In June this year, Mr Obama to attend a talk show that he has been replaced with seven years of blackberry, get yourself on the President's first smartphone. The blackberry has long been famous for its security, and thus had a lot of national politicians and government agencies. The blackberry chief executive John Chen JohnChen says the media: "because the security of the blackberry makes the management of the software and data more easily, and that is why all the heads of government of major developed countries in the use of our equipment."
In the loss of the U.S. government is an important "mouthpiece", after waiting for blackberry what fate is unclear. But the fact is, for the stick to the keyboard strategy, blackberry already and now all touch, big screen smartphone development trends.
The slumping sales performance speaks for itself. As of May 31, blackberry, according to the latest three months 'earnings current losses of $671 million, the company sales fell more than 30%. One of the mobile phone sales were $152 million, down 44%. Blackberry sales of 500000 units, by contrast, apple sold 51 million iphones in its latest quarter. Once appeared in Europe and the United States market to tap gesture of blackberry, now in the global market share of less than 1%, its quarterly sales equivalent to the iPhone shipments a day.
Didn't feel despair, but the Canadian companies, they said the company currently operating in good condition, and trying to convince investors that it could be a booming software and services company. Wall Street analysts believe the transformation direction for blackberry company now is GeQi its mobile business in a timely manner.
"Although I have done my best to tell the world, the blackberry far more than just a mobile phone production enterprise, but so far I get every problem related to mobile phones." John Chen accept the technology website recently Recode said in an interview.