“We don’t have the economy of scale to compete against the guys who crank out 60 handsets a year," says Heins. "To deliver BB10 we may need to look at licensing it to someone who can do this at a way better cost proposition than I can do it."
Thursday, August 2, 2012
BlackBerry to Exit Hardware Business?
“We don’t have the economy of scale to compete against the guys who crank out 60 handsets a year," says Heins. "To deliver BB10 we may need to look at licensing it to someone who can do this at a way better cost proposition than I can do it."
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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