In the span of about five years, BlackBerry (BBRY) rose to the peak of the US mobile phone market and then crashed to the bottom. Before 2011, BlackBerry held a larger percentage of the global market share for mobile phones than both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). In fact, for FY 2009, BlackBerry held 50% of the global market share for smartphones.
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Is The Game Stopping?
According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), “no other sector [in the United States Economy] has experienced the same explosive growth as the computer and video game industry.” In their demographic study of the video game industry, the ESA reports 58% of Americans play video games and 51% of American households own a game console (many of which own more than one).
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