RIM profit drops 27%; shipments seen down

Posted by uspost Sci/Tech Friday, December 16th, 2011

RIM posted a 27% drop in quarterly profit on Thursday and said it would likely ship between 11 million and 12 million BlackBerry smartphones in the weeks around Christmas, the first decline in years for that historically strong period. It’s dismal. Their guide for Q4 is below expectations. The concern is there’s a number of [...]