[sonbuster]

original
CeBit: Angela Merkel testet ihr neues Super-Handy - Computer - Bild.de
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US version
German Chancellor Merkel holds a BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security Secusite software at the booth of Secusmart during her opening tour at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover | View photo - Yahoo! News
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apparently it was purposely photoshop'd and yahoo blasted it on their site

[raino]

Maybe the photographer failed to use the time shift feature

[MartyMcfly]

Lol, The last picture is hilarious.


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[SEAWARRIOR]

is this software available to the public???

[ibpluto]

The US media is one of BB's biggest hurdles....pure and simple, it's protectionism

[yasmar]

wow. this does look like some proof

[FSeverino]

Maybe the photographer failed to use the time shift feature

well played sir.

[pooger]

I lol'd. She looks like she was looking for McDonalds but couldn't find it.

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[ctuffy]

The US media is one of BB's biggest hurdles....pure and simple, it's protectionism

Bologna. It has nothing to do with 'protectionism'. If BB presents the ideal smartphone to the US and their marketing is a success BB will do just fine. The average US citizen doesn't care much from where a product comes or by whom it's made. As long as it is a great product, it will sell. And I have read many positive BB articles written in the US. So enough already with your 'protectionism' argument. It's getting tiring.

[FSeverino]

Bologna. It has nothing to do with 'protectionism'. If BB presents the ideal smartphone to the US and their marketing is a success BB will do just fine. The average US citizen doesn't care much from where a product comes or by whom it's made. As long as it is a great product, it will sell. And I have read many positive BB articles written in the US. So enough already with your 'protectionism' argument. It's getting tiring.

Bologna is in Italy, not Germany


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[geoffsdad]

What a sourpuss. If true, and yahoo did photoshop that, seems like proof positive of a bias

[johnmoore13]

Bologna. It has nothing to do with 'protectionism'. If BB presents the ideal smartphone to the US and their marketing is a success BB will do just fine. The average US citizen doesn't care much from where a product comes or by whom it's made. As long as it is a great product, it will sell. And I have read many positive BB articles written in the US. So enough already with your 'protectionism' argument. It's getting tiring.

I wouldn't buy a phone made in Mexico, so your theory doesn't hold water!

Remember what the doormouse said, feed your head!

[cjcampbell]

I wouldn't buy a phone made in Mexico, so your theory doesn't hold water!!

I did... twice. My BlackBerry's, and they've both been great.

[raino]

I wouldn't buy a phone made in Mexico, so your theory doesn't hold water!

Remember what the doormouse said, feed your head!

1. Average U.S. citizen
2. I hope you're not planning to buy a Z10, because it's quite likely to be assembled in Mexico.

[SlcCorrado]

What a sourpuss. If true, and yahoo did photoshop that, seems like proof positive of a bias

You need that for proof?? Just listen Marissa Mayer talk about bb. She suuuuucks

[SlcCorrado]

Maybe the photographer failed to use the time shift feature

Love it

[Dapper37]

As the rest of the world watches Yahoo shows are true colors!
Its times like this its sad to be where I am!
She is a head of state! If this was our president we would want blood!
Shame
Edit; This is not about the US population! This is about wallstreets manipulation of our media!
Sadly not knowing better, many Americans eat this stuff up!

[Omnitech]

Well the pic is interesting, I don't know what it proves though.

If Merkel were as unhappy about Blackberry as some people must think that pic depicts, why would she have signed-off on the deal?

I think Marissa Mayer's implication that Blackberry isn't a smartphone is a good place to start.

Or just read all the bearish stock analysts desperately trying to cover their short positions on BBRY, day-in, day-out, day-in, day-out..

At least now every time one of those twits writes or gets quoted in an article like that somewhere that allows posting of comments, people are all over their sh*t about it.

[Omnitech]

Also - the frowning pic specifically credits the photographer and their agency, Reuters:

Photo By FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS

Note that this is apparently a different source from the Bild photo.

Someone should contact Reuters and ask them to explain this. They are a reputable organization. If one of their downstream customers is blatantly modifying their photographer's photos, the sh*t will hit the fan.

If this is not just catching Merkel in a bad pose, it will cause a stir.

That's what happened when New Republic was caught publishing a cover photo of Saddam Hussein, where they had retouched his mustache to look more like Hitler's. (Sadly, I can't find any visual evidence of this on the web right now. I remember the photographer making a stink about it when he found out what they'd done to his picture though.)

[jdhooghe]

Clear bias, true but I thought it was established here that BlackBerry doesn't need the US market so why a big deal?

[Charles Martin1]

The good ole US(SR)...

[Omnitech]

Mr Bensch, as it turns out, has done quite a few images of Merkel.

While most of them are more flattering, here's a couple that aren't:

Can Hollande, Merkel find middle ground? - The Globe and Mail
Hamburg rout bodes ill for Merkel in election year | Reuters

[pooger]

this is such a great thread

[sandman10]

I wouldn't buy a phone made in Mexico, so your theory doesn't hold water!

A phone made by Chinese slaves working for 10 cents an hour is any better?

[Hrm Edyee Guy]

The last photo is a photoshop from the previous photo. The first & second photos clearly shows her excitement about the device she has in her hand. It doesn't take a genuius 2 know dat d third photo is a fake.