BlackBerry CEO John Chen didn’t get his reputation as a turnaround specialist by losing money for his companies. That’s why, in an interview with Reuters, Chen said that BlackBerry will not continue to make handsets if it can’t make money from them. “If I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the handset business,” explained Chen, who added that the window for deciding whether BlackBerry handsets could be profitable was small. That said, this shouldn’t send the BlackBerry diehards into too much of a panic because Chen thinks that BlackBerry can make money selling phones as long as it ships at least 10 million per year. While this doesn’t sound like much, remember that the company only sold 3.4 million
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