But missing from the details were
BlackBerry subscriber numbers, a figure that analysts have come to rely on as a barometer of how many people still use the company's devices.
Not exact matches
India, he says, where mobile
subscribers number 800 million but only a privileged few have
BlackBerrys and iPhones, looked like the perfect target market.
His optimism stems from a few things, beyond the potential for
BlackBerry 10: RIM continues to add
subscribers, the
BlackBerry remains the most popular smartphone in a
number of big countries, such as Indonesia, and the company is still rolling out new
BlackBerry 7 handsets across the globe.
Compared to the 70 million
subscribers affected by the recent
BlackBerry service outage, the
number of pi $ $ ed of PlayBook owners is pretty small (probably around 250k... and the
number of active daily PlayBook owners is probably half that).