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It added that it believed the Ontario-based company would need at least three years to gain even a five percent share of the global smartphone market. “It is important to wait to make any moves toward full support of BB10 devices until the market makes a clear statement on BB10’s success (or lack thereof),” Gartner said in its report. News of the UK government’s decision to hold off on switching to BB10 comes at the same time as technology research firm Gartner is advising companies to wait six months before investing in BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (the company’s mobile device management software), or essentially “until it is clear that BB10 has proven successful in the consumer market.”

Since the iPhone and various Android-powered Samsung handsets came on the scene, BlackBerry has seen its share of the market shrink dramatically – especially in the US where it’s lost some 14 million users in less than three years. BlackBerry has a long-standing relationship with the UK government, with versions of BlackBerry’s mobile OS prior to BB10 obtaining security clearance, so the rejection of BB10 is a serious setback.īlackBerry desperately needs BB10 to take off in a big way if the company is to continue in its current form.

It’s expected that BlackBerry will submit revised software in an effort to get security clearance, but the company reportedly has no timeframe laid out as for when this might happen.

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