After the entry of smart phones in market,Blackberry lost their position in market and is removing nearly 4500 of its workers.It will be an average of 40% of total workers.
Before some years,smart phone is meant for Blackberry.As a matter of proud many used Blackberry phones at that time and it had a huge market shares too.
In 2007 Apple launched their iPhone smart phones and after Google launching android software,Blackberry completely lost their good days and market shares.
Removing 4500 workers at a time,Blackberry proves that they lost smart phone market,says some tech experts.
Last year,they expects a loss of 100 crore dollars.Not only the un saled phones that makes loss,Blackberry has to pay to some other companies for making phone parts.At present Blackberry sells 6 smart phones and now they stopped selling 2 phones from the list.
Company reduces workers due to the problem of money.They cannot bear such a huge amount if there is no sales,says CEO of Blackberry Thorsten Heins. After reveling the news,company lost 17% of share market.
When 312 lakh iPhone smart phones were sold,Blackberry was able to sell only 37 lakh phones.Before 4 years,Blackberry had 51% of smart phones shares in North America.
The last move from blackberry is the launch of blackberry 10 on last January.But the phone was unable to compete with Apple iPhone and Samsung Android smart phones.
The recently launched Blackberry z30 also was unable to make a change in the market.After that they decided to quit 4500 workers.
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