With the end of February, the Canadian BlackBerry company has completed the fourth quarter of the fiscal year. Contrary to the hopes, the company has not returned to profitability. The next period brought the company a net loss of $ 238 million a year ago during the same period, the company reported net income of $ 28 million. Previously, we recall, the BlackBerry has decided to cease to rely on its own mobile OS and start using Google's operating system.
According to BlackBerry management, the company will continue to focus on "hardware", but also hopes to increase revenues from the service and from 30% of sales programs. Another type of income is going to be the company's third development licensing manufacturers (sliding and virtual keyboard, etc.).
Until September (in the first half of the financial companies) will feature several models of BlackBerry smartphones running Android. Particular attention will be paid to the promotion of devices with Android among corporate clients.
From sales of software and licensing company for the year raised $ 527 million This exceeded BlackBerry expectations by $ 27 million in the aggregate, however, we have already noted above, the quarterly BlackBerry sales for the year declined by about 30%:... From $ 660 million to $ 464 million. The company expects to earn about $ 100 million more. Maybe they are lucky in the future, although analysts are skeptical about the BlackBerry forecasts and consider their expectations too high. Related Products :
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