If you look in the developing countries around the world you will notice that blackberry is a very popular smartphone and far more common that iPhone and Sam Galaxy or whatever because it is cheapand affordable.
The most common belief among the people and the media for the relationship is pragmatic to receive cheap oil and to secure an additional source of foreign aid to counterbalance the weight of the International Monetary Fund.
Anyone who scans much online technology journalism will know that snarky opinion pieces andcheap reviews - offered to readers for nothing - are its common currency so asking for cash to support heavyweight reporting seemed optimistic to say the least.