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Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration?

Posted by samzenpus on from the blood-in-the-water dept.

zacharye writes "RIM was expected to deliver a nightmarish, -30% year-on-year revenue decline into the May quarter — the company issued its latest profit warning just four weeks ago. Yet it ended up missing the lowered consensus estimate by 10%, generating just $2.8 billion in sales. The reasons for RIM's decline are well-known and will be rehashed again over the next 24 hours. But the size of the F1Q13 sales miss raises another question: apart from Apple and Samsung, is the handset industry drifting into serious trouble?"

2 of 278 comments (clear)

  1. Re:who cares? by Wandering+Voice · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In addition, the mobile phone networks and their cell towers need to be sabotaged. As long as they are used against us and we lack the means of having full access to these devices.

  2. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's a pubic hair on my keyboard. What the fuck?? I "mow the lawn" so it's not mine. Gross.