On a late Los Angeles afternoon last fall, up a steep and winding road in lower Benedict Canyon, a covered chain-link fence and a dense covering of trees and shrubs blocked most views of the mansion of Mr. Pritzker, part of the Chicago real-estate family and a billionaire co-founder of private-equity firm the Pritzker Group.

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While there was talk of supply chain constraints, BlackBerry has managed a substantially wider breadth of launch than Wall Street had expected, covering approximately 35% of its subscriber base.

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