Time for RIM to ditch the BlackBerry OS and take up Android - a winning combination, I would think.
It's because there is absolutely no reason to get a blackberry now with much better OS's being available now.
80% of my age group have BlackBerries, it's ridiculous. Blackberry Messenger is about the only half-decent thing they're good for, otherwise everyone just jumps the bandwagon
The problem with RIM is they've never innovated, never moved on. Blackberries were great businessphones pre-iPhone, they were some of the first all-access mobile-office devices you could fit in your pocket. However, now with the new advent of smartphones running iOS and Android and WebOS (heh), the blackberry has pretty much become defunct - businesses are more likely to buy Droids or similar (that said some of the business customization on the BB far outclasses a droid, but only in obscure fields). The UI / user friendliness hasn't moved on, either - my dad has a Torch from work, and my mum has an iPhone - it took my mum 10 minutes + guidance to work out how to send a text message on the torch, and she learned how to do it on an iPhone within seconds.
TL;DR: Blackberry is stuck in the past, on life support from loads of tweens being cool and hip with BBM.
They were forerunners of the market, but they've fallen behind in terms of UI design.
It's sad how much design goes into developing the hardware of the phones, physical design, the complexities of networking and other background software, only to see a product do so poorly because of something that seems so small from a design standpoint.
Here in Argentina people loves the blackberry for no reason at all.
You think they have it that bad, Nokia is facing even worst time.
blackberry is really a piece of shit for the most part anyways
the phones themselves have hardware that is obviously cheap. everyone, literally everyone i know who has had a blackberry has had issues with the keyboard, trackball, and trackpad. then the OS itself shits it's pants whenever you deal with something slightly resource intensive
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i had one and i really fucking hated it it. can't even stand being dropped once.
now my EVO 4G. i wish i could have sex with this thing
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Low demand? Blackberries are the best selling (Almost the only) phone in Venezuela. That's mostly because of our ancient network infrastructure though, I'd really like to get an Android phone but since BB messenger is almost the only wireless communication used around here I can't do that without losing contact with a lot of people.
I'm telling you, the second somebody makes a BB chat compatible app for iPhone or Android, RIM will fall. Don't see why nobody has made it thus far, they could make a bunch of money out of it.
[QUOTE=KingKombat;32312576]blackberry is really a piece of shit for the most part anyways
the phones themselves have hardware that is obviously cheap. everyone, literally everyone i know who has had a blackberry has had issues with the keyboard, trackball, and trackpad. then the OS itself shits it's pants whenever you deal with something slightly resource intensive
[editline]15th September 2011[/editline]
i had one and i really fucking hated it it. can't even stand being dropped once.
now my EVO 4G. i wish i could have sex with this thing[/QUOTE]
I like how you call blackberries cheap and sluggish, but then claim your EVO 4G with its LCD screen, Scorpion CPU and resource hogging UI is amazingly fast with amazing hardware when in fact it really isn't.
[editline]16th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Big Bang;32312770]Low demand? Blackberries are the best selling (Almost the only) phone in Venezuela. That's mostly because of our ancient network infrastructure though, I'd really like to get an Android phone but since BB messenger is almost the only wireless communication used around here I can't do that without losing contact with a lot of people.
I'm telling you, the second somebody makes a BB chat compatible app for iPhone or Android, RIM will fall. Don't see why nobody has made it thus far, they could make a bunch of money out of it.[/QUOTE]
The only person who could make such an app is rim(APIs not available to the public etc). And they won't do so for the exact reason you stated, because they would die off.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;32312770]Low demand? Blackberries are the best selling (Almost the only) phone in Venezuela. That's mostly because of our ancient network infrastructure though, I'd really like to get an Android phone but since BB messenger is almost the only wireless communication used around here I can't do that without losing contact with a lot of people.
I'm telling you, the second somebody makes a BB chat compatible app for iPhone or Android, RIM will fall. Don't see why nobody has made it thus far, they could make a bunch of money out of it.[/QUOTE]They haven't made a BB messenger for Android because it belongs to RIM
Nobody at my school has a blackberry, it's a mix of Androids, Nokia's, iOs and those generic samsung phones.
Blackberry is almost useless..
I'm certain there is someone out there willing to leave it open source and anonymous just to break their monopoly. All things can be cracked.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;32312876]Nobody at my school has a blackberry, it's a mix of Androids, Nokia's, iOs and those generic samsung phones.
Blackberry is almost useless..[/QUOTE]
My highschool was like 50% Blackberries, 20% dumbphones, 20% iPhones and 10% Androids for some reason :l
Blackberry target audience was not young adults and teenagers but businessmen and workers. This is why they are failing right now. Businessmen are now turning to iOS and Android phones due to it's easy to use features.
[editline]16th September 2011[/editline]
If you ask me, their phone doesn't look visually appealing to teenagers and young adults.
Blackberries seem to be popular with black people, seriously.
[QUOTE=cyanidem;32316103]Blackberries seem to be popular with black people, seriously.[/QUOTE]
Probably because there's like 100 variants of the same thing and they're cheap. Honestly. When was the last time they changed anything OS wise?
I Own a blackberry torch, was expecting them to rollout a new better design for next year but all they have done is exactly same phone, torch 2 with new version of os (browser changes) bit faster cpu and better camera..
How in the hell is this news? Android is taking up the business market. They're adding in encryption features, remote wiping and all that corporate email shit that was missing in the first place. RIM is done for unless they really do something with that Android OS emulation stuff they've been working on.
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