I have seen how the other half lives
- I am aware of some of the tools that are available - Adblock was an example that is getting under the corporate skin of web advertisers. I also use Browserprotect, Ghostery, NoScript and the list goes on. I enjoy using Lightbeam and watching the relationship of the ''watchers''. I agree that Google is now showing new colors to users to lure them in their fold and make more money. The only way to stop this attitude from data collectors is to stop their revenue stream. If no money can be made - they will move on to real jobs
Subscriber only model?
How would crackberry even exist without the ad model that is so feared/ loathed on these forums?
Subscriber only forum
would likely solve the problem of dissenting posters
!06-01-15 08:52 PMLike 0 - You reminded me of when I convinced my wife to get a BB back around 97 or so. She loved it, it was a touch screen and back then we paid per text so I installed BeeJive so she could IM with her buddies. Life was good, then FB came on the scene and you know the rest of that story...06-01-15 08:53 PMLike 0
- Android M has the ability for the user to choose which permissions it allows, so Android security is about to get much more robust (for those who care enough to look at permissions). I am curious to see what is in the pipeline next for Blackberry, but I do fear that the huge security push in Android is going to erode the last bastion of strength for Blackberry.
It's like making a great deadbolt lock, as long as no one breaks in your home, most think the one they have is fine. And MOST makes up the profitable market. Same with corporate security, as long as the company isn't hacked and meets the standards, hard to get most higher ups to invest in more security.
Now with Android beefing up in that area and we know iOS has, BB's going to need a better message for the mic than just "security".06-01-15 08:59 PMLike 0 - Iv lived on the other side before my HTC one broke and I got stuck with a z10. The thing BlackBerry didn't understand is that the market will follow the apps and who makes the apps? Developers. Right now the system is too restricted and not rewarding. BlackBerry dev resources have gotten better tho but I don't see them competing with open source android anytime soon. They just need to breath some life into the market and stop making ugly phones with keyboards and they will be able to compete by the time windows mobile is on the rise
BlackBerry we want replaceable keyboards and launchers.06-01-15 09:10 PMLike 0 -
Though I find I tend to use the same types of apps on all my devices (iOS, BlackBerry and Android)06-01-15 09:27 PMLike 0 - I love my Passport but I haven't even used Blend. Tried all night to get it to work on my iPad mini. No dice. Said screw it. Didn't even try to use it on laptop.
Posted via CB1006-01-15 09:39 PMLike 0 - You didn't miss anything on the iPad mini, I got it to work but found you have to leave the app in the foreground or it didn't work. That means all you will be doing on your iPad is waiting with blend active... Not exactly what I call usable...06-01-15 11:07 PMLike 0
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Posted via the CrackBerry App for Android06-01-15 11:13 PMLike 0 - I dropped mine from about knee high and the screen shattered. I got a Nexus 7 on the way. This will be my first Android device but I might as well get used to it since it appears BB is leaving us consumers to fend for ourselves...06-01-15 11:15 PMLike 0
- What most of you unsatisfied Die Hard BlackBerry users do not understand is that if BlackBerry were to make an ease of use device (which it does by the way) it would not be a BlackBerry Device. Please do not mistake this as a contradicting statement.
Every BlackBerry device is built around security - no less. Android devices are not!
You're right! Turn on the device and off you go... Open Season! A note to most...the backdoor is open. If Samsung was comfortable with their devices as is, then they would not need BlackBerry. Would they?
The biggest problem with open source software is that it is open to manipulation.GenghisKahn2011 and gokulesh like this.06-02-15 12:15 AMLike 2 -
IOW, you didn't have to learn to use BBOS... I'm still learning things about my Classic after 2 months of ownership...06-02-15 12:33 AMLike 0 - Wow, this thread turned... interesting. A couple of thoughts about apps. First, I too would like to know how many of those 50 billion Android app installs were then uninstalled. It's a deceptive and vague number, and intentionally at that. I'd also like to see a percentage breakdown of how many were productivity apps versus how many were games or how many were stupid camera trickery apps. In some ways, though, I guess the kind of app doesn't matter, because it allows Google to throw around a huge number without saying something like, "X% of the installed apps were crappy, irritating, money-grabbing, time-wasting, sorry excuses for games that you'll either uninstall right away out of rage or forget that you even have on your device." Second, someone mentioned how we shop at big department stores instead of gas stations or something, completely ignoring the fact that large stores like Walmart have pushed smaller-scale stores and specialty stores out of business. So, if we shop at place X, that's in many cases only because there are no alternatives Y and Z, so I'm not so sure that's such a good analogy to app stores.
Lastly, someone stated the more nefarious side of Google as nothing but a company that collects and sells data. I'm more in line with this, perhaps because I've read a lot of academic research on political economy and commodification. We may indeed have a certain amount of agency (or at least we feel like we do), but we are more than anything commodities sold to advertisers. And not only are we paid for for our particular value, we are then complicit as we pay hundreds, even thousands of dollars for our own commodification. So when an astronomically large multinational corporation such as Google or Apple promises to be able to bring together everything in our life in a "smart" way, from cars to homes to wearables, that's when I get suspicious. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts or for any reason resembling progress or egalitarianism; they have to deliver their product (us) to advertisers.
Posted via CB1006-02-15 12:45 AMLike 2 - Or like me, after installing Google store I was like a kid in the candy shop and downloaded all kinds of apps onto my Classic, most of which I never use and others I don't even remember I have. I mean who routinely uses 50 apps??? And lives a normal life???06-02-15 12:51 AMLike 2
- Just to put some perspectives, what people "download" is actually different from the number of apps that one has as many apps come preloaded.
All the Samsung Apps will count just like All the BlackBerry Apps on BB10. So therefore you might see people say 30, 40, 50 but they actually downloaded probably Max 10 (excluding games of course.) Posted via CB10Q10Bold likes this.06-02-15 02:03 AMLike 1 - You mean like when BlackBerry told us how many people had downloaded BBM but didn't tell us how many un-installed it?06-02-15 02:16 AMLike 0
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- OK, they downloaded 30 to 50 apps. Can you ask them how many of those they use every day? 3? 5? 10 tops? PS, games don�t count06-02-15 04:35 AMLike 0
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Another thing to bring into the equation is the average technology user. The average user is incredibly uninformed about not only what their tech (smartphones, in this case) can do, but also about what they allow it to access, save, and disseminate. In short, the average user is... stupid, to put it bluntly, and their ignorance is both exploited by tech companies to the latter's financial advantage and exacerbated by tech companies' narratives of "it just works," "there's an app for that," "don't question our methods," "you're holding it wrong," "we represent progress," etc. One of the biggest dangers as far as I'm concerned is the perceived inevitability of connected everything, or the imperative that we should connect everything.
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