On 30th April 2013 it was reported as below :-
“In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” Heins told Bloomberg. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”
Fast-Forward by 6 Months
And he is longer the CEO of Blackberry in Six month's time. On 3rd Nov he is fired as CEO of Blackberry!
The guy is so naive to make a patently questionable prediction (5 years into the future) in the face of roaring success of iPads and Android Tabs of every kind, it is poetic justice that he is blind-sided of his future---he being non existent in his company in just Six months down the line..
So much for being a high flying CEO drawing multi-Million Dollar Pay Check. We should feel sorry for the BB stakeholders (Shareholders, Employees, Customers)
1. Predicts :-
Extract :-
Forget the success of the iPad, growing tablet shipments and those wide-scale enterprise deployments; BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins wants you to believe that the tablet will soon be heading into retirement.
Heins has in the past spoke candidly about how profitability would be key if BlackBerry chose to re-enter the tablet market with a second PlayBook, but surprisingly appeared to dismiss the market at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles today.
“In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” Heins told Bloomberg. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”
2.Others are Bemused :-
Extract :-
Asked about it, several speakers at this week’s Tablet Strategy conference found the comments puzzling at a time when tablet sales are booming and most research firms are predicting future growth for years to come as higher volumes lead to cheaper component costs and lower cost models as well as a wide array of form factors. In other words, the tablet revolution is just getting started.
3. Tries to wriggle out
4. Gets the Boot:-
Heins has in the past spoke candidly about how profitability would be key if BlackBerry chose to re-enter the tablet market with a second PlayBook, but surprisingly appeared to dismiss the market at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles today.
“In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” Heins told Bloomberg. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.”
2.Others are Bemused :-
Extract :-
Asked about it, several speakers at this week’s Tablet Strategy conference found the comments puzzling at a time when tablet sales are booming and most research firms are predicting future growth for years to come as higher volumes lead to cheaper component costs and lower cost models as well as a wide array of form factors. In other words, the tablet revolution is just getting started.
Asked about it, several speakers at this week’s Tablet Strategy conference found the comments puzzling at a time when tablet sales are booming and most research firms are predicting future growth for years to come as higher volumes lead to cheaper component costs and lower cost models as well as a wide array of form factors. In other words, the tablet revolution is just getting started.
3. Tries to wriggle out
4. Gets the Boot:-
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