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Yahoo CEO does not consider Blackberries as smartphones


Yahoo recently offered to give all their employees free smartphones, with a choice between iPhones, Samsung Galaxy S3’s and Nokia Lumia 920s.

Now Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s new CEO, has explained why, noting the company had an imperative to move their employees from Blackberries to “smartphones”, suggesting rather strongly and repeatedly that she did not consider those devices to be real smartphones.

During an interview with Fortune’s Patricia Sellers, she explained:

"We literally are moving the company from BlackBerrys to smartphones. One of the really important things for Yahoo’s strategy moving forward is mobile."

Presumably she is not alone, explaining why RIM’s market share in US dropped to only 1.6%.

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shoutout to my good sis who is still using her 2 years old bb pearl imsoclassyomg <3 hope your 5 years old contract ends soon
slinky 29th-Nov-2012 04:24 am (UTC)
the swiveling sidekick screens were pretty awesome, but much harder to discretely text during classes
im_chris_hansen 29th-Nov-2012 08:57 pm (UTC)
guuuur texting students were the bane of my teaching existence!
slinky 1st-Dec-2012 05:34 am (UTC)
if you taught in northern NJ in the early 2000's, I sincerely apologize. 16 year old me was in high demand at all times lol


I can't imagine teaching kids that are old enough to not care/not pay attention to shit you've been planning for MONTHS and stressing over trying to figure out exactly how to get the point across to actually make sense. I have no idea why such few teachers flip the fuck out on their students honestly. I was a bitch when I was in high school.
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