Personal computing discussed
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NovusBogus wrote:Patents are irrelevant, RIM sells to corporate slaves and they want to keep it that way. They're just not interested in the consumer smartphone market.
ludi wrote:the market isn't going to suddenly revert to 2003
clone wrote:ummmm.... BlackBerry stock is flying high
clone wrote:their phone is reviewing very well,
clone wrote:but it was and is still far more secure which is why corporate clients have stuck with them as long as they have,
clone wrote:BlackBerry still has a very strong position in Europe and India
clone wrote:does the $144 mean anything .... it was 4+ years ago, where BlackBerry is headed matters, what it has matters, what it had doesn't.It is currently at $15.63 in after hours trading. At its peak the stock was over $144.
clone wrote:the accompanying literature is vapor and doesn't dispute security.
clone wrote:if BlackBerry maintains it's hold overseas and gains share with Z10 in NA it's a win win... a comeback of sorts.
Chrispy_ wrote:What Blackberry are lacking is apps:
- Apple has all the apps
- Android has nearly as many apps, plus the feel-good freedom you don't get in Apple's walled-garden.
- Blackberry has no apps, and it is promising a walled-garden like Apple.
notfred wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:What Blackberry are lacking is apps:
- Apple has all the apps
- Android has nearly as many apps, plus the feel-good freedom you don't get in Apple's walled-garden.
- Blackberry has no apps, and it is promising a walled-garden like Apple.
On launch day the Z10 had 70,000 apps and it is growing all the time, they had a backlog on launch day waiting for approval. No other new OS launched with that many apps.
BB10 runs Android apps that have been repackaged. This is basically no work for the developer as all they need do is take the Android app, run a tool on it and it spits out a Blackberry .bar file that they then submit to Blackberry World. With Android's Linux background and BB10's QNX background, both OS are POSIX so doing a full native port is pretty easy as well.
NovusBogus wrote:I don't disagree there, but speaking as someone who works in business software, a lot of companies will stick with crappy vendors becuase That's The Way We Do Things Here(tm). My own firm totally phoned it in for about six years before somoene noticed they were getting a raw deal. Just because everyone in the company hates it doesn't mean the bureaucrats won't rubber-stamp the renewal like they do ever year...ask anyone who's ever been screwed by Dell but isn't allowed to get anything else. Rightly or wrongly, RIM is doing the business vendor thing of focusing on contracts and to hell with quality and everything else.
notfred wrote:BlackBerry are back profitable:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release ... 772945.htm
clone wrote:they are back in the black because of phone sales
clone wrote:clone wrote:actually at the time it was a combination of both making your post an equal amount of "Absolute nonesense"they are back in the black because of phone salesend user wrote:Absolute nonesense. They are back in the black because of cost cutting.
clone wrote:I'm curious to see just how determined they are to quit