BB :) OS -> BB :| 10 -> Android :(, what the muck :O ?
When BBOS with BIS support cease, I will have no good idea where I'd go for my next phone (not even the Titan.) It's like choosing the best of two evils, iOS or Android: which are ADD causing epidemic that tricks the brain into multitasking with constant distractions and scattered icons leaving behind our ability to focus. Sad when a market of products get reduced to a duopoly of the lowest common denominator of fake societal demands (i.e. selling us on megapixel for cameras as if somehow more megapixels equates to better quality rather than the reality: more wasteful pixels. (The fools of market demand alludes)
I know that I would be making compromises to a severe degree of lack of function with bloat, in order to get the features that BBOS devices come with and with significantly more footprint and privacy compromises in comparison. The glut for data consumption for simple use is rampid. And the use of an exponential amount of resources only to be consumed exponentially with bloat is very discerning to me.
I like to be very conservative when it comes to data use. Also the ability to add an extended battery having phones that use to have removable battery (the term 'battery pull' is no longer expressed.) And now with pictures that look like crap at 100% 1:1 zoom with super small sensors for 20mb pictures; the unconsented data consumption for simple tasks....wth? I used up 3gb of data just by choosing default settings on Android to load all my emails and their contents (not simply headers)....this world is in a muck, backward way. I could write on although anyone that came from a BBOS background would agree that we live in rubishly lavish times.
My pipe dream is that BBOS would have continued. If there is anything left to be prized it maybe in a way that BB sells the intellectual property of BBOS to another phone maker, and one that BB would trust to live by the BB standards of privacy security and utilitarian business orientated functions. BB is pretty much out of the phone making business anyhow.