However, the 60,000 Motorola phones being used on the store floor will stay on for some more time. But store managers across the 2,252 retail outlets of Home Depot will get to junk their BlackBerrys in favor of the iPhone 4S. Even though BlackBerry 10’s launch garnered a lot of positive attention and the company may have had things looking up for it, this transition away from the BlackBerry by the world’s fifth largest retailer could be seen as a setback for it. This news may have hit the company especially hard given that it is desperately hanging on to its corporate customers for sustenance and has been hoping that the BlackBerry 10 would turn things around for it. But not everyone is throwing out the BlackBerry just yet. In December 2012, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency had decided to switch 17,600 employees from BlackBerry to Apple. But the agency decided to hold off and give the BlackBerry 10 a try before ending their arrangement with BlackBerry, making Apple miss out on a $2.1 million deal.
