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I do enterprise IT support for corporate law and health care. BlackBerry is deader than dead and has been for ages. It had inertia from zero competition back in the day. There was no secret to their success, it merged a phone with a mobile email client and a tiny full alpha keyboard. It supported email accounts hosted on MS exchange servers. That was it. Palm and even early Windows phones were half baked and clunky by comparison for the 99% text+call+email duties that BB excelled at. But that all changed with iPhone and Android. They left BB in the dust pretty quickly, and even for strictly business use (like serving as secure email clients for MS exchange access) BB was obsoleted fast. It was by comparison total hell getting a BB added for a new lawyer along with the garbage BB Sync stuff, whereas an iphone or android could be set up in seconds and do a better job of it. On topic, this buy is certainly just a treasure trove of patents and IP.