OTTAWA — There are plenty of signs suggesting that John S. Chen, chief executive of BlackBerry, should sprint as fast as possible away from making phones.
Handsets drove the company’s initial success, but they then brought it to the edge of financial ruin, an also-ran behind Apple and Samsung. Even Mr. Chen, who was brought in last November to salvage BlackBerry, has made it clear that the company’s future lies mainly in selling mobile data management security and services to governments and corporations.
Image: John Chen, chief executive of BlackBerry since November, introducing the Passport phone in Toronto on Wednesday. Credit Mark Blinch/Reuters
