Category: blackberry

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...

Quick Review: WhatsApp Messenger

iMessage is great when all of your friends have iPhones, but when your friends and family around the globe have Droids, and Blackberries, and Windows Phones too, it gets frustrating to send them all messages (and downright expensive). That’s where WhatsApp messenger comes in. I had family abroad last year with a Blackberry (i Know right?) so I turned to a combination of WhatsApp...

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...