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BlackBerry Confirms Android Smartphone Plans on iPhone Launch Day
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Way to steal the spotlight. Now i've forgotten what else is happening today. Something about an apple?
Wait.. I like PBR. Bullet cans are $1 on Friday at my local dive.
Ugh! Blackberry is plagued with corporate pencil pushers and it'll be their death if they don't fire them all..... if it's not already too late.
What BB has failed to recognize (among other things) is the genius of a virtual keyboard. One device for every market and language in the world. BB seems hung up on retaining the physical keyboard so much so they are willing to go to the mattresses over it, thus a different SKU for every different keyboard layout. SJ obviously realized this, but in 2007 had to persuade the consumer it was what they really wanted. I think he may have been successful.
Mostly they need a device that differentiate them from the gazillion other android phones. and the slider keyboard might just be that differentiation. If enough people are still interested in a physical keyboard will of course to be seen. But BlackBerry has been building nice hardware, and now coupled with an Android OS ( and there security sauce on top) it might be appealing for enough people for blackberry to survive. And survival is all they are looking for.
BB would have been better off licensing it's OS to OEMs and stick to the software and services side. Like what they are doing on the automotive front. BB at this point does not have the hardware volume to manufacturer decent hardware without sacrificing quality or skimp on features. Not to mention they cannot move fast enough to keep up with pace of technology.
Perhaps that's the problem. They can't find anyone to license it to, thus forced to manufacturer their own hardware just to have a platform to put their software on.
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No you don't. Nobody likes PBR. Some people drink it because it's cheap. Some hipsters drink it to be ironic. But nobody likes it. Bad beer is bad beer always. Even after a new generation "discovers" it.
The CIO's and CTO's you know need to get out more. The rest of the industry is moving into an agnostic BYOD posture. I'm not sure I agree with it entirely, but the idea of securing an entire device (that the enterprise may or may not even own) is falling away. In its place are technologies like Good (or even Microsoft, to some extent) that merely attempt to secure the corporate data on the device.
This might be an enterprise IT white flag. "Oh fine, use whatever you want. But we're seriously encrypting your TPS reports."
Not sure how much you've delved into this, but all of the other technologies create a secure container on the device that can be (when the OS is hacked) copied over to a PC, then brute force attacked to break the encryption key on the container - giving full access to its contents.
Someday people will figure out that the only way to secure their corporate date is to make sure it isn't there in the first place (emulation). You want to decrypt a screen scrape? Go ahead...negligible value. Really don't understand why the MDM crowd (other than VMWare/AirWatch) haven't clued into this. (I actually suggested to Apple that they should buy VMWare for that reason...)
Anyone worth their salt won't allow Android devices on the network (me, I likely wouldn't allow Windows devices either - simply too many exploits). Gee...who does that leave with BB no longer having a secure platform?
Apple wouldn't need to do much to win it...they just need to get off of their ass and do something already.
Sad for their loyal employees, but after being too comfortable at the top, Blackberry has lost the war.
The smart ones should bail ASAP.
The smart ones should bail ASAP.
There is some very hard research on the aging demographics of television viewers and it is scaring the crap out of the Sarnoff-school television network executives. Daytime and regular prime time viewership is showing a consistent shift in average age away from the 18-35 demographic.
About the only show type that is not showing an aging demographic is sports and special events such as award shows. This is why you are seeing Tonight Show clips featured on YouTube. There is also a quite war between SAG and YouTube. To this day, SAG refuses to sign any YouTube star into their fold.
We are seeing a shift of entertainment distribution as radical as the break-up of the studio systems and introduction of television in the late 1950's / early 1960's. That is when rock-n-roll acts started to work as their songs carried better on the tinny speaker of early televisions sets (and cheaper cost of musicians.) This follow through why hip-hop is displacing rock, all the X.1 surround sound system get better use with hip-hop and you don't need as much of a streaming data rate to produce base sounds.
RIM deserves everything the get from this as they were WAY too exclusive with their development environment. They treated writing apps for their early RIM devices like a video game console instead of a widely open platform such as PCs. From that, they had little in third party titles compared to iOS and Android.
A bold statement to make when nearly all servers run on open-source OSs with lots of open-source software.
LOL, I just realized that at least one person must've bought the Z10. Looks like they're going to abandon even their own OS. Well, if you bought one, sucks to be you!
Someone already said that earlier...you should catch up on the thread before posting.
Cool, I'll still say it again. I'll also add that OS X and iOS are based on a lot of open-source code.
So, didn't bother to read the responses I posted then? Or just too lazy to actually respond to them?
Nice...adding the iOS and OS X bits after.
OS X is based on FreeBSD, true. That's where it ends. Apple took that fork and took it closed source. Why? Because if the hackers have access to your code, they'll always find exploits that your QA team misses.
OK, I'll respond to this one. Sorry about that; got carried away.
- A mobile phone is not going to have ports open like a server would. The corporate firewall is much more permissive than NAT, which isn't going to let ANY incoming connections go through. The kinds of attacks against them are going to have to be sneakier, typically Trojan horses.
- Closed-source doesn't mean more secure. It means less secure, if anything. There should be more vulnerabilities, only they'll be harder to find. It's not really a good long-term solution to rely on that. The phrase for it is "security through obscurity".
Right, because this unix isn't running any services, right? (the port argument). Umm, you haven't configured any firewalls, have you?
Your second statement is entirely based on opinion and has no basis on fact at all.
We're talking about different things. It's not the OS's decision what the network is going to permit. You can't just grab someone's public IP address and connect to any port you want on his PC or phone. Yeah, the phone is going to permit connections to its private IP address over LAN. It's a possible attack, but it's not as doable as an attack on an Internet-facing server.
The statement about closed vs open security is based on logical reasoning. If something is closed-source, the public isn't going to be looking for vulnerabilities (as much), so fewer can contribute to finding and fixing vulnerabilities. So, assuming that fewer people working on fixes will mean more vulnerabilities, it's going to generally be true. And there's the empirical evidence of Windows being historically insecure.
When you're on a public cellular or wifi network, you'll find that there's quite a bit that the network allows.
Corporate servers are behind multiple levels of Cisco firewalls and also have a fair amount of hardening on them in terms of minimizing services. You'll never have your ERP or DB servers out in the DMZ.
Still with the chiclet keyboards. Physical keyboards on phones are the past - that's the main reason BB died in the first place - they just couldn't get their heads around the fact that the <1% of the market that actually wants chiclets is not enough to support a smartphone business.