BlackBerry's smartphone market share
The Terminal Decline of BlackBerry
Prior to the iPhone’s launch in 2007 and the subsequent surge in smartphone sales around the world, BlackBerry phones were immensely popular for their secure messaging and email functionality, especially among professional users. The company never quite managed the transition to smartphones successfully though, and after several strategic shifts announced in September that it would no longer make its own phones.
That won’t be the end of BlackBerry phones though, as the company reiterated in a blog post published in December. The company is merely shifting all of its efforts to software and plans to work with third-party phone manufacturers such as Chinese brand TCL Communication in keeping the BlackBerry brand alive.





















