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RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-step-closer-to-the-end dept.

zacharye writes "Toronto-based original device manufacturer Celestica on Monday announced that it will stop producing hardware for struggling mobile device vendor Research In Motion. Celestica stated that it will wind down manufacturing services related to BlackBerry devices over the next three to six months, and it expects restructuring charges to be less than $35 million."

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  1. So what does this mean? by arketh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are they the only manufacturer of Blackberry devices or are they just one of many?

    1. Re:So what does this mean? by mccdyl001 · · Score: 5, Informative

      From this Chicago Tribune article, it sounds like there were 4 major manufacturers and now there will be 3. Celestica apparently made the Blackberry Bold & Curve models, and the article seems to indicate that those models will be moved over to one of the other manufacturers.

    2. Re:So what does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, they're not.

      And - BGR has taken paticular interest in finding news about rim and turning into a negative thing. What manufacturer would intentionally stop building devices at contract volumes and rates? My bet is RIM pulled their business for some reason. In order words, this is a non-story that BGR is turning into a negative story about RIM.

      Ever since RIM gave all the other sites BB10 dev alpha devices and didn't give one to BGR, they've been running constant negative coverage.

    3. Re:So what does this mean? by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They pulled their business because NO ONE IS BUYING THE DEVICES.

      Whats difficult to understand here? No one buys these devices anymore, so they'll reducing the amount of manufacturing potential they have rather than keeping a production line ready and costing them to sit idle. This is just another part of the death spiral to everyone with their eyes open.

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  2. RIM's got a 100-year supply anyway by swschrad · · Score: 4, Funny

    so this doesn't mean much.

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  3. If RIM were a passenger jet... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    The stick would be shaking and an artificial voice would be warning: "pull up, pull up".

  4. Re:So Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The rise and downfall of RIM parallel's slashdot, myspace and others in many ways.

    You're still here... :-)

  5. Re:So Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The rise and downfall of RIM parallel's slashdot, myspace and others in many ways.

    You're still here... :-)

    His point *exactly*.

  6. Obviously... by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly the decline of RIM is at the hands of Microsoft, whose Innovative(tm) Windows Phone brings consumers all of the Innovative(tm) features they've been looking for; once they had a taste of Innovative(tm) Windows Phone(tm) there was no further demand for Blackberry.

    It is rumored that Apple and Google also have products in this space but they are irrelevant.

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    1. Re:Obviously... by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Informative

      Truth be told, it was MS who killed RIM. ActiveSync, the mobile syncing software used in Exchange and several other commercial mail servers, made BES unnecessary for a lot of companies. I know at my company only devices with ActiveSync support are used. We shut down our BES over a year ago and were glad to see it go.

      RIM should have had ActiveSync on BB devices as soon as it started to be popular, instead they kept wanting that BES licensing money and it led to their own demise.

  7. RIM Executives... by DarthVain · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey, at least we're not Nokia!" :)