Is The Bizarre Timing of BlackBerry's Death Tied To Nokia's Panic Sale To Microsoft?

The size of the August quarter miss is obviously hard for the human mind to comprehend. BlackBerry effectively missed its August quarter smartphone shipment volume by roughly 50% even after Wall Street had brought down its estimates repeatedly over the summer. Shipping only 3.7 M units during the quarter, the company also stated that most of these devices were not BB10 models. This means that the number of BlackBerry phones using the new operating system was 1.8 M or less. What makes this so dre...