Nikkei: BlackBerry to stop selling phones in Japan, no longer able to justify the cost

Nikkei: BlackBerry to stop selling phones in Japan, no longer able to justify the cost:

It looks like Japan won't be a part of BlackBerry's BB10 launch plans now or anytime in the foreseeable future. According to a report from Nikkei, BlackBerry has decided to stop selling phones in the country, at least in part because it wasn't able to justify the cost of making the necessary language modifications to its new operation system. As Nikkei also notes, however, BlackBerry has seen a particularly steep drop in market share in Japan, where it now stands at just 0.3 percent. We've reached out to BlackBerry about the news and are awaiting comment.
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Source: Reuters