The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a member of the BlackBerry board, Bert Nordberg, has told it that the company can survive as a “niche smartphone maker”. Some call this a kind of public capitulation by the Canadian tech firm. Mr Nordberg is the person assigned by the board to find alternatives to Blackberry’s current wobbly position — somewhere between a fire sale and the onslaught of Apple. Mr. Nordberg did not rule out a sale of Blackberry. There is also the possibility of going private but that strategy seems murky against the company’s challenges.
