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SO if the iPhone 5 does not have LTE and a larger screen would be considered revolutionary to you. OK I get it.
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Since my work is buying... I just pre-ordered the iphone5
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I thought you had a bigbadblackberry......?
Point for originality.
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What is wrong with you?
This is the NSX of smartphones. It is beautifully designed, a pleasure to type emails and texts with and doesn't pretend to be a miniature home entertainment center. What kind of numbnuts wants to watch a movie, play a game or surf the web on a teenie weenie 4" screen in the first place? I have an old grandfathered AT&T unlimited data plan and with an app called Tether I can use the Blackberry as a 4G LTE modem for any computer without "notifying the authorities" or needing to activate it's hotspot capability and lose my data plan.
This is the NSX of smartphones. It is beautifully designed, a pleasure to type emails and texts with and doesn't pretend to be a miniature home entertainment center. What kind of numbnuts wants to watch a movie, play a game or surf the web on a teenie weenie 4" screen in the first place? I have an old grandfathered AT&T unlimited data plan and with an app called Tether I can use the Blackberry as a 4G LTE modem for any computer without "notifying the authorities" or needing to activate it's hotspot capability and lose my data plan.
Yeah, it looks like it was designed 20 years ago. :biggrin:
Right, because the iPhone looks so new and fresh.
Hugh, you are a good man. Just wait till bb10 and you will be impressed.
Ps. Tether rules.
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Since Steve Jobs passed away, the excitement also went away. The iphone 5 is a nice improvement, but it didn't "WOW" me at all. However, it will again break all sales records on iphones/smartphones. I think its just a cult, so drink so Kool Aid and join in and pick up an iphone today.
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I disagree, the excitement actually picked up. People were ready to see what Apple would do without Steve's restrictive ways. People thought they'd finally see flash, possibly more freedom in customization...but nope!!
That's why more people are disappointed than they are excited about the i5. But you are correct in that sales will not take a hit at all.
That's why more people are disappointed than they are excited about the i5. But you are correct in that sales will not take a hit at all.
I thought Steve was still involved in iphone5. It was the last project he worked on.
Thanks buddy.
Hopefully RIM will still be in business when OS 10 is released. As long as I can still get a phone with a real keyboard I'll be happy.
Here's a leaked photo of the BB 10 Touchscreen......... I wonder if those dimwits at Apple will sue them too?
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RIM is bleeding out, and will be dead in a couple of years. Acquisition for their assets/IP.
Marissa Mayer (formerly of Google, now CEO of Yahoo) switched everyone off of RIM at Yahoo because she wanted employees to be more in tune with Yahoo users.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/pre...Buys-iPhone-5s-for-Yahoo-Staff-169995236.html
And while her move was more of a motivator/PR stunt, I can't disagree with the pretext. If Yahoo wants to deliver products end users want, they have to know the ins and outs of the devices end users use.
And that was really the last thing RIM had going for it: businesses using RIM for it's corporate features/price. Without that, they are toast.
My ex gf's law firm used to only offer RIM, and since 2011 they started offering Apple iphones. Guess what everyone switched to as soon as they could...
RIM has always been terrible imo. Never understood the fascination. People that need a hard keyboard sound like people that want flip phones.
Also, who wants to dial a number on those tiny keys? The first time I used a berry I asked where the dial pad was. When I realized it was just a few keys on the keypad, I laughed.
Marissa Mayer (formerly of Google, now CEO of Yahoo) switched everyone off of RIM at Yahoo because she wanted employees to be more in tune with Yahoo users.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/pre...Buys-iPhone-5s-for-Yahoo-Staff-169995236.html
And while her move was more of a motivator/PR stunt, I can't disagree with the pretext. If Yahoo wants to deliver products end users want, they have to know the ins and outs of the devices end users use.
And that was really the last thing RIM had going for it: businesses using RIM for it's corporate features/price. Without that, they are toast.
My ex gf's law firm used to only offer RIM, and since 2011 they started offering Apple iphones. Guess what everyone switched to as soon as they could...
RIM has always been terrible imo. Never understood the fascination. People that need a hard keyboard sound like people that want flip phones.
Also, who wants to dial a number on those tiny keys? The first time I used a berry I asked where the dial pad was. When I realized it was just a few keys on the keypad, I laughed.
Flash? LOL!
Seriously, how hard is it to add flash?
I agree. I had 3 blackberries and they were great at the time. Nothing was better.
But they fell behind fast.
The biggest mistake they made, IMO, was not making a 'blackberry app' for iPhones and Androids.
Charge $30 and let people tie into their highly secure BES servers instead of opening ports for active-sync.
Too late now. Ports are open in enterprises now, and there's no going back.
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Thanks buddy.
Hopefully RIM will still be in business when OS 10 is released. As long as I can still get a phone with a real keyboard I'll be happy.
Here's a leaked photo of the BB 10 Touchscreen......... I wonder if those dimwits at Apple will sue them too?
They have 75 million users. They are not going anywhere anytime soon. The keyboard version will be out shortly after then full touch. I haven't seen the kb, but the touch phone is looking very good.
Even adobe has given up on flash on phones, so its really a moot point now. I still think the iPad should have it.
A good friend and neighbor of mine works for the nations largest refrigerated trucking company. They all had RIM too, but after the last few outages they switched to iPhones as well. They have to keep track of 5,000 drivers at any given time. They can't deal with information outages.
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Hope they were not relying on imessage to communicate with their drivers.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/17/imessage-outage-apple-iphone-ipad/
DOH! I'll ask him when I see him next.
It's not hard, it compromises the stability of the platform and was a strategic move not to shoehorn it into the OS.
I really do commend steve on a 100% ballsy move by not jamming Flash into iOS. At the point when he made this decision the internet was littered with flash content. Instead of him conforming and compromising the stability of his phone, the popularity of the device helped rapidly push for the adoption of HTML5/H.264 and overall web standards, which were being pushed for many years but there wasn't a driving force until the iPhone.
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The NBC Olympics apps for iOS were written in Adobe AIR, which is basically Flash for iOS, packaged as an app. Laggy, low UI frame rates, and non-standard controls. You compare those apps with native ones like the new YouTube app, and the difference in responsiveness is amazing.
This the the NSX of smartphones!!!
Or if you prefer the Ferrari of smartphones. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
Or if you prefer the Ferrari of smartphones. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
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