wraggster
March 11th, 2014, 23:29
Having been defeated by Apple in more or less aspect of its business, Blackberry has decided to mock its rival over the iPhone’s battery life.
Yahoo (http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/battery-short-iphone-users-are--wall-huggers---quips-blackberry-ceo-223815099.html) reports that chief executive John Chen told conference attendees that he “calls [iPhone owners] wall huggers” due to their need to stay near a wall socket to charge their phones at the end of the day.
Chen has since assuming duties at Blackberry in November overseen a 50 per cent rise in the company’s share price and outsourced handset manufacturing to Foxconn to reduce inventory risks.
He recently found himself engulfed in a war of words with T-Mobile boss John Legere after the mobile operator emailed its Blackberry-owning customers with a trade-in offer to switch brands.
The Blackberry boss said it was a “clearly inappropriate and ill-conceived marketing promotion”. Legere responded by saying that 94 per cent of customers who participated in the deal swapped to a rival mobile platform.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/buoyant-blackberry-boss-says-iphone-users-are-wall-huggers/0129375
Yahoo (http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/battery-short-iphone-users-are--wall-huggers---quips-blackberry-ceo-223815099.html) reports that chief executive John Chen told conference attendees that he “calls [iPhone owners] wall huggers” due to their need to stay near a wall socket to charge their phones at the end of the day.
Chen has since assuming duties at Blackberry in November overseen a 50 per cent rise in the company’s share price and outsourced handset manufacturing to Foxconn to reduce inventory risks.
He recently found himself engulfed in a war of words with T-Mobile boss John Legere after the mobile operator emailed its Blackberry-owning customers with a trade-in offer to switch brands.
The Blackberry boss said it was a “clearly inappropriate and ill-conceived marketing promotion”. Legere responded by saying that 94 per cent of customers who participated in the deal swapped to a rival mobile platform.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/buoyant-blackberry-boss-says-iphone-users-are-wall-huggers/0129375