- The truth is every big business started as a small business, and none of this discussion is relevant to the topic. Stay on topic!Elephant_Canyon likes this.02-08-17 07:26 AMLike 1
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In 2010 there were 27.9 million small businesses, and 18,500 firms with 500 employees or more. Over three-quarters of small businesses were nonemployers; this number has trended up over the past decade, while employers have been relatively flat.02-08-17 08:14 AMLike 0 - BlackBerry has gobbled up a lot of smaller businesses along the way. Your argument makes as much sense, as believing BB10 has a serious future on smartphones. Android is but a few tweaks away from being indistinguishable from BB10, which is BlackBerry's objective. BB10's future is Android.02-08-17 08:17 AMLike 0
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Posted via CB10dmlis likes this.02-08-17 08:33 AMLike 1 - Small and medium size entities use licensing (the licensor is a big corporation) for survive and establishing a foothold in overseas markets. And not to mention the franchising...and so on..small and medium size entities here in europe are dead walking without any strategies of licensing. May be you mean the small businesses entities by name not considering them part of a corporation...So even the single shop selling toys can be considered a small business, but often even that is forced to become part of a corporation, paying to survive with it's little name within a bigger name...but still figuring a small business in terms of employers firms etc...
Posted via CB10BigBadWulf likes this.02-08-17 09:34 AMLike 1 - It's not what they say they do, it is what they actually do. From what I've seen so far for bb10 they are not committed to this OS at all.
Posted via CB1002-08-17 09:39 AMLike 0 -
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That said, the people BlackBerry directs BB10 to currently, have use for the enhanced certificates and NIAP certifications.02-08-17 10:51 AMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1002-08-17 02:17 PMLike 0 -
I do 1- hour or 2-hour long slide presentations 4-5 days per week on my Passport. Everytime I do that to a large audience, several people come to me after the talk to ask me what phone can do all of that!
I organize my files as if I were on a Linux workstation.
I send files back and forth to my Linux workstation and seamlessly attach and detach them to and from emails.
I often edit and and correct papers and theses on my phone when I am travelling. No need to carry a laptop with me when hiking or riding a train, especially while standing in a train in Japan.
I edit text and slides. I edit and read most of my emails.
I watch/listen to TV news live while doing other work on the phone.
It's more efficient than doing it on a Mac or workstation.
I do all of that without having to register with Google or Apple or Microsoft and allow them to spam me with ads and datamine the heck out of me and put my data on US servers where an all-powerful, unchecked and uncontrollable president can decide whatever he pleases about it.
For real work, I use a Linux workstation. Android, Windows, Macs are useless for real work for me: they miss the integrated circuit design app ;-)
Even email is a work distraction, but I have to live with it.
In other words, I use my Passport for mobile computing, not just to make phonecalls or surf the Web, or shop occasionally (all of which I do on the Passport without missing anything). And, yes, I don't play games and don't do social media. I feel no need for either.
Posted via CB1002-11-17 01:56 PMLike 0 -
It's about achieving monopoly positions. That's what we have now.
If Google wouldn't be arm twisting then you would have bb10 with the latest android runtime (I don't need it but some do) and with the users having the capacity to decide permissions to all apps, including those of Google and BlackBerry, and also deciding if they wanted to pay with cash or with data for Google services.
But Google and most companies and app developers copying their approach would have none of that. They want you to register with a web account, give them your mother's maiden name and your dog's name so that they "can better serve you and verify the correct operation of their own software". They don't want your money, your data is much more valuable.
Posted via CB1002-11-17 02:13 PMLike 0 - I do slide presentations with zoom-in when I need to show detail, better than on my Mac.
I do 1- hour or 2-hour long slide presentations 4-5 days per week on my Passport. Everytime I do that to a large audience, several people come to me after the talk to ask me what phone can do all of that!
I organize my files as if I were on a Linux workstation.
I send files back and forth to my Linux workstation and seamlessly attach and detach them to and from emails.
I often edit and and correct papers and theses on my phone when I am travelling. No need to carry a laptop with me when hiking or riding a train, especially while standing in a train in Japan.
I edit text and slides. I edit and read most of my emails.
I watch/listen to TV news live while doing other work on the phone.
It's more efficient than doing it on a Mac or workstation.
I do all of that without having to register with Google or Apple or Microsoft and allow them to spam me with ads and datamine the heck out of me and put my data on US servers where an all-powerful, unchecked and uncontrollable president can decide whatever he pleases about it.
For real work, I use a Linux workstation. Android, Windows, Macs are useless for real work for me: they miss the integrated circuit design app ;-)
Even email is a work distraction, but I have to live with it.
In other words, I use my Passport for mobile computing, not just to make phonecalls or surf the Web, or shop occasionally (all of which I do on the Passport without missing anything). And, yes, I don't play games and don't do social media. I feel no need for either.
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Posted via CB1002-11-17 03:08 PMLike 0 - It's very relevant to the topic.
It's about achieving monopoly positions. That's what we have now.
If Google wouldn't be arm twisting then you would have bb10 with the latest android runtime (I don't need it but some do) and with the users having the capacity to decide permissions to all apps, including those of Google and BlackBerry, and also deciding if they wanted to pay with cash or with data for Google services.
But Google and most companies and app developers copying their approach would have none of that. They want you to register with a web account, give them your mother's maiden name and your dog's name so that they "can better serve you and verify the correct operation of their own software". They don't want your money, your data is much more valuable.
Posted via CB1002-11-17 04:32 PMLike 0 - It's not a monopoly, it's their store. Google has no problem with other stores existing and they aren't stopping anyone from using them. If people want to use their store, they have rules for what they want in return to further their business.02-11-17 05:19 PMLike 4
- Based on the logic being offered, I suppose we should dissolve all patents, and shut the offices down. No one's unique idea can be preserved as their own, and profited from. Is this truly the direction you want to go in? What result do y'all expect?
This avenue of thinking, will result in nothing but a complete stifling of inventive development. I believe proprietary and monopoly are being confused here. They are not the same.02-11-17 06:59 PMLike 4 -
The law in Canada doesn't allow them to invade my privacy by tracking my clicks, yet governments do not enforce the law on them. I don't have a Google account, I have never used android, I don't do Google search, yet they monitor pretty much all pages on the internet.
The governments are on their payroll. They don't pay proper taxes.
They bully everyone into being datamined.
Posted via CB1002-11-17 07:57 PMLike 0 -
- Try googling the success rate of those who take legal action against Google for anti-trust. It doesn't pass the threshold.Thud Hardsmack likes this.02-11-17 09:41 PMLike 1
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