Category: Blackberry 10

Dear Blackberry: Don’t Be Stupid

Periodically I will write open letters to tech companies, usually chastising them for interface, or some form of glitch. Now I write to Blackberry to chastise them for a marketing mistake, which really could be corrected. Now, here’s my letter: Dear Blackberry, Rumor has it you’re releasing BBM for iPhone and Android on September 20th. You know what else is being released on September...

iOS 7 Bug Bankrupts Blackberry

In a surprising turn of events, Blackberry’s stock price has fallen to below zero. This is especially surprising considering that in most sources it is nowhere near bankrupt, and that a stock price cannot possibly fall below zero. Investors would literally have to pay to offload the stock. The bug was reported by reader Brendan, who noticed it in Apple’s latest iteration of their...

Is BB10 The Real Life example of “the chicken or the egg”

Blackberry 10, Windows Phone 8, and all of the new phone and tablet operating systems out there face face a serious problem in the fight to gain market share from Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS: Developers want to develop apps for an operating system with the largest possible audience and customer base, and users want to use the operating system with the most, and...

The insurmountable challenge that Windows Phone 8 and BB10 Face

“If you build it [they] will come”. That call, similar to the call heard in the classic movie “Field of Dreams” seems to be the call driving the creation of Windows Phone 8, and BB10, but unfortunately for the builders, they face the challenge of having to lure two different groups, and that is what will make gaining market share such a challenge. Building...

An Interview With Technology’s “Kingmaker”- Walter Mossberg

Technology moves so fast, and no one has done a better job of explaining every new technology to consumers than Walter Mossberg, founder of the popular technology blog AllthingsD, and creator of the personal technology column in The Wall Street Journal. Mossberg has interviewed everyone from Bill Gates, to Mark Zuckerberg, to Steve Jobs. Mossberg’s writing has brought him numerous awards and given him...