Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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So we're in a very good position
Let me just say, we're very aware that John's business is in a great position with great secular trends pushing it in the right direction
But in particular, we've worked for a couple of silicon partners that have some really high-performance systems that they're going to be rolling out in the next year and the feedback has been really, really good
So that's clearly growing very well
So we have that advantage that we have the functional safety certifications that we can be used in the vehicle where like critical situations are involved, accelerating, steering, braking, et cetera
So you're able to extract every ounce of power that you paid for in your SoC, but we're also able to do that while maintaining the highest level of functional safety and our security pedigree
So I feel really, really strong, and I feel really comfortable with where we're at right now
I think we're well trusted
So to that end, to have two profitable cash flow positive businesses could be an advantage there
We're very pleased to have BlackBerry with us today
And it's also a powerful way of demonstrating how easy it is to use IV versus the very disparate bespoke OEM-driven platform
And we're very happy to say with SDPA, which is our latest operating system, we scale almost 1:1 as the core count increases
I think we're potentially impacted positively by having a little bit more control and being able to do some things going forward
So what we've said so far is that we are still in the proof-of-concept phase with a number of meaningful OEMs that probably taking longer than we possibly would have anticipated, but we still feel optimistic about the future of IV
And that's because we've done the plumbing of IVY in a generic way that it's very easy for the applications to take advantage of those signals
And I think that, that is the opportunity
But I mean, they're reaching out to many companies to do this, but I believe we're in the best position to do it
And I think that that type of freedom is very welcomed
And it also allows us to provide much more of an experience
But where we pivoted the stuff that John has been outlining, which all these secular trends of greater penetration into cars, greater number of cars that are accessible or addressable to QNX and the fact that we're selling a greater number of layers of software in each of the domains that we address, means that design wins are becoming progressively larger
I think that when I talk about the inflection point, I see a large opportunity for QNX
That piece -- the backlog for that was growing around about 20% year-on-year on a full year basis
And so I think the hypervisor has been pivotal to being able to enable that environment in the cloud
But it's also, I think it's more how it demonstrates the ease in which you can add new applications
Obviously, QNX being an operating system is an ideal company to be doing this
So we're seeing a massive increase in the amount of compute power within the vehicle
Guys, everybody knows Linux is used in data centers and it's used on big iron in the cloud, we're now able to provide that type of performance
And I think the ecosystem partners that we have really demonstrate, I mean to Tim's point, so there are some very interesting things right off the shelf that you can use right away
Maybe there is a recognition that since this is non-differentiating software that there's an opportunity maybe for OEMs to cooperate on this and to be able to build out a platform that allow them to go a lot faster on the features that they want to provide to their customers
So just to reassure on that side of things, but certainly move us towards cash flow positive
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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The cybersecurity business, whilst it has an enormous opportunity, there have been obviously some challenges on that side of the house
And to your point, we've seen that there's been challenges in the industry
I think the challenges in automotive have -- they're not good for anybody
And overall, BlackBerry is a company has been losing money
So trying to sell to other Tier 1s was challenging
Clearly, there's been some well-publicized software delays, other things that automakers are working through in the past couple of years
They create headwinds and they create projects being delayed, but I think it's also opened up a lot of eyes to maybe what the next steps are to not end up in this situation again
But right now, we're over-indexing on the early-stage revenue because these designs get bigger
There's been delays
It's very difficult from mid program to say, hey, here's a whole new software platform for you, even though it's very similar, it's risky
And we're seeing very similar trends across all of them, and that is that most of the challenges exist at the low-level software
It takes a bit of convincing
There will be some volatility, particularly because the revenue right now is so heavily skewed to those early-stage revenues, which are a bit more lumpy, Luke
My impression is that it's not really impacting your day-to-day life that much
Awful lot of impact there in the space in like a minute
   

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