The Blackberry network has been down for most of 3 days. The explanation of why is still a bit murky. I wouldn’t be shocked if the WikiLeaks supporters have some role, since Blackberry devices are used a lot among government employees.
You can’t retain customers on a device that people rely on minute to minute to do what they do and not have profound repercussions from a 3 day outage.
Yesterday, Clark Howard was talking about how he found an iPhone in a parking lot and the process of how he figured out how to return it to its owner. He went down a path of mentioning how someone who was less honest might sell the phone to Gazelle (I wondered how much of Gazelle was about fencing stolen devices….) In the course of talking about that, he mentioned while iPhones get a lot of money, blackberry devices are worthless….