Why do so many Droid owners post here ... and then some.

zeiroe · Thread Author #1 01-15-2010, 06:02 PM

Why do so many Droid owners post here on crackberry’s Storm forum? It’s simple. The vast majority of Storms were released on Verizon. The Storm was the best smartphone Verizon had available at the time. Those Storm owners flocked to the web in need of assistance with their endless issues. RIM’s official community forum is a joke and storm owners found solid answers on crackberry. Word of crackberry quickly spread and its registered members count exploded. Even now, the Storm forums are knocking on the 1,000,000 thread count and it’s the only device forum that has sub-forums. 2nd Closest device forum with a thread count is the Curve … and that device has been out long before the Storm.

Again I’ll state that the vast majority of Storm owners are Verizon. So many Storm users had problems and/or were just unhappy with the device. Thus the “Rants and Raves” sub-forums were made. We all learned how to deal with the phone and how to work with it. We all learned what the Storm was capable of and what its limits were. We all learned it together by posting/reading it here on crackberry. There are quite a few that are happy with the device. I myself was one of them. I LOL’d at those having problems that were so trivial to fix … but I would do what I could to help if I could. I even contributed a little with themes early on … but RIM’s lack of improvements with Plazmic kind of showed me what they were really about … It kinda dimmed the gleaming light of potential it once had.

Now Verizon has released the Droid. Those that pioneered the Storm were the best possible candidates to try something new if they were not happy with their current device. Again, let me remind you. I was happy with my Storm. I had the same one since release without issues (screen click, dust … etc). I had to do my research with what the Droid had to offer. I even had the Storm2 for a few weeks before returning it … It didn’t make sense to be stuck for another 2 years with a device that should have been the predecessor to begin with. Then there’s that gleaming light of potential, growing ever fainter. Even with the Storm2, the capabilities and limits didn’t change much if at all. It became evident to me that no matter how much hardware that is thrown in a Storm, Storm2 or Storm3 with a jiggahertz processor and a gazillion TB of ram, the OS itself was the problem.

I don’t see RIM making the switch to make an OS specifically for a device that they want to flagship as a multimedia device. You can have the best hardware in the world, but if the software that runs it is subpar, it’s still subpar. I’ve only had my Droid for a couple of weeks now. It’s hasn’t even been a month. It’s only natural that I (a former Storm user) wish to share this with the community that I am happy to be a part of. There are times that I do miss BBM and full push email on all my accounts. But other than that, I’m a happy camper.

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icesteve · #2 01-16-2010, 12:06 PM

Good insights..flame retardant to me at least n I love my storm...it helps that you didn't try n **** storm owners off on purpose like so many of these threads

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

Corpsman112 · #3 01-16-2010, 03:00 PM

I own a Storm, I don't frequent iPhone or Droid forums. I own a PC, I don't frequent Mac forums. I use Firefox, I don't frequent IE forums. I drive a Honda Civic Si, I don't frequent Cobalt SS forums.

The point is, I appreciate going places to get support and appreciation for the things I have, not antagonism.

"Well that just means you are ignorant of other things!"

Not at all. When I am ready to look for a new "thing" I do my research and I pick my product. I simply have to much life to live than to spend it flaming other people on forums I have no legitimate reason to be posting on. GAL!