There has been plenty of rumors of Lenovo acquiring BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins makes it very clear that he dislikes the talk about it going public, period. A while back BlackBerry stated that is just a rumor that was taken completely out of context.
Why is the Lenovo acquisition of BlackBerry bad for the company?
“I don’t know why they are going public with anything like that. To me, this is rumours and speculation. We are running our strategic review, and there are various elements in the review that we are considering, but I don’t want to comment on that,” he said.
“What I specifically don’t like about it, is that it can irritate our investors, our shareholders and our customers. My view always is that you go out to the public when you have something substantial to say. It is not helpful for the industry to have these rumours out there and it is not helpful for my shareholder base either. But you know, people talk, they do what they do and I have to deal with it.”
As far as tablets go, Thorsten Heins says the launching of the PlayBook or going into the tablet industry, he would of done things differently.
Heins admitted the company made mistakes in its initial transition into tablets, saying it had been overly ambitious to launch without native email and many apps, but the decision had come from a desire to show off its QNX OS. However he said internally it had been viewed as a valuable trial run in getting BlackBerry 10 right. Which in my opinion BlackBerry 10 is a very polished OS.
“I wouldn’t want to do it the same way again, if I do something around tablets, I want it to be really substantial and meaningful, and quite frankly it would need to be profitable as well,” he said.
“I think the profit pool is very very thin. Kudos to Apple, I think they really managed to own that space, so it doesn’t make sense for me to just take this head on. I need to figure out, for my enterprise customers, for my consumers, for my BlackBerry 10 audience, what can I do that provides them a mobile computing experience in the form factor of a tablet, which goes beyond just the puristic tablet experience.”
Good to see Thorsten Heins admitting mistakes but using it as a trial to do better on future launches, such as the successful BlackBerry 10 launch worldwide, now here comes the BlackBerry 10 launch in the United States, investors get ready!
Source: Financial Review