@canicoll Those are device approvals—the devices are approved for use on the carrier. I see it as a proxy for products in market by carrier.

RIM BlackBerry head Carlo Chiarello: Since mid-July, BB has achieved 600 technical approvals from 240 carriers globally. #yg

Mike Lazaridis: We had 40 percent growth in our subscriber base last year, even after we missed a product cycle. #yg

Mike Lazaridis: Nokia was pushed out of the North Am. market because it antagonized the carriers. I think product also affected that. #yg

Mike Lazaridis: We upgraded to BlackBerry 7 OS to give us time to migrate our platforms to QNX. #yg

Mike Lazaridis: We see about 4 million app downloads a day from the Blackberry App World

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: articles touting our demise are greatly exaggerated: We added 70 million customers to our network last year. #yg

Off to visit with RIM for a couple days. Can RIM change its current business trajectory? I hope to find out this week.

Yarrr, Maties! It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

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