The ability to sideload Android-apps destroys BlackBerry�s odds of reputation
May be I�m too old and my play instinct is already gone, perhaps I�m too legitimate to be susceptible for every mutants of spirits of the age (zeitgeist) and possibly I�m to reasonable and bourgeois, but beside the fact, that the 10.2.1.xxx is ABLE to support apk.files I hate this...
My decision to purchase BlackBerry since years was the fact, that Blackberry was always a statement AGAINST mainstream, a statement for security and also a statement for convenience. Blackberry was always outstanding and nobody cares about the unprogressive specs, cause Blackberry was the best device in context of communication.
I understand that Blackberry is forced to sell and earning money, but I want to see a Blackberry in its tradition. Whit the ability to sideload apk.files Blackberry becomes insecure and opens a door to the -up to now declined- world of snoopery. It demotivated developer of native apps. It makes a BlackBerry to a "Samsung-light" (I never would purchase!). Blackberry was known as an elitist device with high demands to its user. But now it mutated to a htc with different UI (needs getting used to) and the inability TO BE a complete android-device...
Somebody who wants all the gimmickry stuff of Android will still purchase a htc or samsung or alike... But a BlackBerry-User like me lost its unique selling point, the security and the hope, that all the big-name-apps will ever appear as a native BB-app.
The question is if BlackBerry should compensate its lack of apps either becoming a elite supporter for native apps or by a transformation to a capitualting hermaphrodite....