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		jdjb on Dec 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the... Quite a few people here in Ottawa still have Blackberries. Mostly government types and a lot of them carry an Android/iPhone as well. RIM signed a lot of very long term contracts with a good number of the large enterprises and various levels of government in Canada that they will stay afloat for a long time. By very long I mean you can count them in decades..

mark-r on Dec 16, 2012 [–]

Afloat != viable. There may be some shell kept alive to take advantage of those contracts, but the chance of a renaissance is 0.

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