{"id":442,"date":"2015-11-25T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/?p=442"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:48:29","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall and Rise of BlackBerry\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileindustryreview.com\/2015\/11\/blackberry-rise-fall-opinion.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BlackBerry-Traffic-600x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>A topic close to the heart of many of our readers, the much loved Canadian handset company\u00a0has experienced\u00a0some turbulent times in the past few years. There\u2019s no denying that they have made some excellent phones, but they\u00a0are in the middle of a turnaround at the moment (event T-Mobile US\u2019 John Legere recently said \u201cthey\u2019re on the up\u201d) in a bid to regain market share, as well as focus on\u00a0areas\u00a0such as security software and device management.In today\u2019s article,\u00a0James Rosewell, Founder and CEO of 51Degrees\u00a0offers his\u00a0opinion and some facts about the rise and fall (and rise again?) of Blackberry.Until a few years ago, it was rare for businessmen and women to venture far from their trusty BlackBerry devices. In late 2007, BlackBerry took the mobile market by storm with the launch of its 8800 series, which became one of the first widely used connected, \u2018smart\u2019 devices. It may have been a far cry from the smartphone as we know it now but the 8800 series generated more than 10 million sales around the world which helped Blackberry hit its highest estimated worth of \u00a349 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileindustryreview.com\/2015\/11\/blackberry-rise-fall-opinion.html\">The rise and fall of BlackBerry &#8211; Mobile Industry Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A topic close to the heart of many of our readers, the much loved Canadian handset company\u00a0has experienced\u00a0some turbulent times in the past few years. There\u2019s no denying that they have made some excellent phones, but they\u00a0are in the middle of a turnaround at the moment (event T-Mobile US\u2019 John Legere recently said \u201cthey\u2019re on  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skateman.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}