Pfizer dumps beleaguered BlackBerry phones for Apple iPhone, Android phones due to company’s ‘volatile state’

“Pfizer Inc. (PFE), the world’s biggest drugmaker, will wean off of BlackBerry (BBRY) Ltd.’s phones, citing concerns that the mobile technology company might not be around in the future or may have service interrupted,” Drew Armstrong reports for Bloomberg. “”

“Pfizer told employees who use BlackBerry devices to instead get an Apple Inc. phone or one run on Google Inc.’s Android operating system,” Armstrong reports. “The drugmaker cited Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry’s declining market share and noted that the company attempted to sell itself. ‘In response to declining sales, the company is in a volatile state,’ New York-based Pfizer told employees in a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. ‘We recommend that BlackBerry clients use their BlackBerry devices and plan to migrate to a new device at normal contract expiration.'”

“Pfizer had 92,000 employees as of its last annual filing, making it the eighth-biggest employer among U.S. and Western European-based health-care companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg,” Armstrong reports. “Contingency plans have been developed in case BlackBerry shuts down or is unable to provide services, Pfizer said in the memo.”

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MacDailyNews Take: We realize that Pfizer loves infections (good for sales), but they shouldn’t be trying to infect themselves. They finally woke up to the fact that BlackBerry is Dead Company Walking and made a good decision bad by even mentioning Android.

Android phones are infection-prone and a mistake for any business to place into employees hands; any company that does so has a defective IT department.

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