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BlackBerry Confirms Android Smartphone Plans on iPhone Launch Day
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Agree. These obsolete policies like permitting only Blackberry or prohibiting BYOD last only up to the moment that the CEO gets an iPhone and tries to use it at the office. Even large defense corporations have progressive BYOD policies now.
Well, don't give Apple all the credit here. Blackberry did a fine job themselves of sitting on their hands while Apple changed the smartphone industry landscape around them. It was Blackberry's short-sightedness, greed, and overall resistance to a changing business/consumer climate that ultimately led to their fall (with Apple's help of course!)
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...least secure if you download unauthorized 3rd party apps on your Android device!
"We are focused on making faster progress to achieve profitability in our handset business," Chen said. The company also announced plans earlier this month to acquire rival Good Technology for $425 million. "From these initiatives, we anticipate modest sequential revenue growth in each of the remaining quarters of fiscal 2016."
In other words, we want more money. Who wants a Blackberry device even these days? Go home Black Berry your drunki!
In other words, we want more money. Who wants a Blackberry device even these days? Go home Black Berry your drunki!
I've moved away from physical keyboards, but I'm quite intrigued by this device. The specs are top tier and like Blackberry's style of messaging and consolidating conversations. The bezels are also quite thin and the sliding motion was said to be quite smooth. The security changes that Blackberry has made to Android can be quite helpful. The only question of course is how much support Blackberry is going to throw at it in terms of upgrading to Marshmallow and other updates to android.
Only two?
"Losing The Signal" is a great book, I recommend it. Fantastic description of BlackBerry's slow rise... and very rapid fall.
I'll go ahead and say it...I love a physical keyboard.
No way do I want this blackberry, but if apple could have a super thin AND sturdy slide out keyboard, I'd be all in.
But not enough to go android.
No way do I want this blackberry, but if apple could have a super thin AND sturdy slide out keyboard, I'd be all in.
But not enough to go android.
Of course blackberry is still making money. I see and hear blackberries on a daily basis at work. Yes it's declining, but it won't be anytime soon when they actually lose money.
The next logical step would be Blackberry on a windows phone, - they both are trying hard to convince business users and both are equally successful with that.
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Wow, the amount of sheeping that goes into being community member on macrumors is intense. I think that they are doing a clever move and keeping the physical move is a good move. Opposite the usual mobile suspects such as Apple, Samsung, Microsoft - Blackberry are keeping it different.
Wake up.
Wake up.
I agree with your point there. BlackBerry tried doing this by outcontracting some of their hardware http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/t...ership-with-foxconn-signals-a-shift.html?_r=0
For licensing the whole OS, yeah probably nobody was interested to jump on their OS (which was an ambitious effort).
Anyways, imho an Android phone seems to be their best shot to stay in business as a phone manufacturer.
Sorry but you know the Canadian economy is not that small! You can roughly calculate Canada's population, GDP, etc by dividing the American number by 10. In their high days Blackberry (RIM at the time) had ~11000 employees, and now they are down to ~6500. Them going under will no doubt hurt the local economy in Waterloo Ontario, but I doubt you'd even see a dent in Canada's GDP as a whole. The Canadian government was easy on them by granting them a tax refund that they were entitled to early, and that's pretty much the only help they got from the government.
All that being said, it's sad seeing a Canadian tech giant go down.
They keep on insisting on their own hardware when their IP is more valuable. Why they refuse to license, it is beyond me.
This sadly reminds me of the last years of the Commodore Amiga.
Amiga was years ahead of both Wintel and Apple machines with their genlock'ed computer graphics laying over live video. Instead of licensing that technology or selling chipsets, they insisted on going with their own systems. Eventually standards took over, patents expired and their market share was down to a sliver.
Then they dissolved in the 90's. That liquidation was such a feeding frenzy, people were taking the company signs off the walls and parking lot posts before the lease to the building expired.
http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=713580
Priceless. "It runs Google, and... and... I haven't set it up, it's a demo unit"
Priceless. "It runs Google, and... and... I haven't set it up, it's a demo unit"
I like the way they did the keyboard. It pops out really nicely and the speaker is at the bottom (which means they really put thought in it because anyone else would probably just keep it on the phone bit).
So you're saying that the kernel of Linux in secure builds or that BSD or Unix distro's are also not secure due to being open source as well? Sorry but for those OS reality disagrees with you.
Honestly BB should remain a SAAS company and ditch the hardware fast! Right now the arguement is why are they still making hardware at a HUGE loss, and now with Android are they relevant when Blackberry Productivity Suite will be available on competing platforms and with KNOX2.1 with Samsung and upcoming Android permissions - ones end users CAN take control of ... FINALLY - is BlackBerry themselves relevant? Good Enterprises had their own financial issues and thus they were not going to last long either.