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=== Indonesian market === In 2011, BlackBerry shipped 43% of all smartphones to [[Indonesia]]. By April 2014 this had fallen to 3%. The decline in the Indonesian market share mirrors a global trend for the company (0.6% of North America).<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Marlow |first=Iain |date=November 3, 2014 |title=Lack of global knowledge cost BlackBerry Indonesia |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/lack-of-global-knowledge-has-cost-blackberry-indonesia/article21432165/}}</ref> The retail price of 2,199,000 Indonesian Rupiah ($189) failed to give BlackBerry the boost it needed in Indonesia. The company launched the device with a discounted offer to the first 1000 purchasers, which resulted in a stampede in the capital in which several people were injured.<ref name=":0" /> BlackBerry lost market share in Indonesia despite the launch of the [[BlackBerry Z3|Z3]] on May 13, 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Purnell |first=Newley |date=May 13, 2014 |title=BlackBerry Turns to Indonesia to Make Turnaround Push |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579559711902688366?mg=reno64-wsj&mod=e2tw |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315145610/http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579559711902688366?mg=reno64-wsj&mod=e2tw |archive-date=March 15, 2016}}</ref> The new device was given a worldwide launch in the city of Jakarta and came on the back of the news that Research in Motion (RIM) was to cut hardware production costs by outsourcing this to Taiwan-based Foxconn Group.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Hugo |date=December 21, 2013 |title=BlackBerry's Foxconn Deal Spurs Evolution Into Services Company |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-21/blackberry-s-foxconn-deal-spurs-evolution-into-services-company.html |website=Bloomberg}}</ref>
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