{"id":649078,"date":"2013-03-27T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=399911"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:17:30","slug":"blackberrys-best-hope-said-to-be-as-a-niche-player-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649078","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry\u2019s best hope said to be as a \u2018niche player\u2019 going forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/blackberry-market-share-analysis-399911\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/blackberry-sign-bgr-231.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Market Share\" title=\"BlackBerry\" \/><\/a><\/center>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/blackberry-10-launch-analysis-313515\/\">full-blown instant comeback was never in the cards<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>), and now one analyst thinks the company&#8217;s best hope is to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/03\/rim-blackberry-10-analysis-loyal-user-base-makes-success-possible\/\">shoot for being a niche player going forward<\/a>. Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetinsider.com\/Analyst+Comments\/Initial+Demand+for+Blackberry+(BBRY)+BB10+Phones+Not+Sustainable,+Warns+Analyst\/8212393.html\"><em>StreetInsider<\/em><\/a>, BGC Partners analyst\u00a0Colin W. Gillis projects that &#8220;at best&#8221; BlackBerry &#8220;becomes a niche player&#8221; that has a small but very loyal group of customers that will help it survive the annual onslaught of new devices from big-name players such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>). But Gillis warns that this is only a best-case scenario and that BlackBerry still has a lot of potential pitfalls ahead, particularly in its efforts to retain customers in emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/blackberry-market-share-analysis-399911\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/g-O8iFVBlL4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full-blown instant comeback was never in the cards for BlackBerry (BBRY), and now one analyst thinks the company&#8217;s best hope is to shoot for being a niche player going forward. Per StreetInsider, BGC Partners analyst\u00a0Colin W. Gillis projects that &#8220;at best&#8221; BlackBerry &#8220;becomes a niche player&#8221; that has a small but very loyal group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}