Is this the end of BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 10 OS?
- Yah, I hope you're talking about all of the people who mock anyone using a BB or anything not Samsung or Apple. Because I've never put anyone down for their choice of phones. If you think I have then you've completely misunderstood everything that I've said and have based your entire mindset on a false-truth...
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But let's see if we can get back on topic.08-21-16 02:07 PMLike 0 -
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Devs don't want to support 4, 5, or 6 OSs if they can only support 2 or 3. That's why we've had the same 3 options on the desktop for 25 years with no change in sight, even though there are billions to be made there IF you were to displace one of the existing platforms.
Dev's have to make choices of how to spend their time to maximize Return On Investment (ROI), and developing for niche platforms is a bad financial choice, which is why few have done so, and why fewer are doing so every day. Obviously, this has not been good for buyers of those niche platforms, who have wasted both money and time (with work-arounds) and have had to live without valuable apps and services. The free market does its job and eventually kills off the weak.08-21-16 08:28 PMLike 0 - They told you they bought the phones because the phones were the popular models. That's not the same thing as those people "wanting to fit in" - rather is those people wanting a phone with lots of app and service support. YOU were the one who made that leap - because that's your perception of how they think, based on your view that their choices are wrong. I'm fairly certain your assumption is false.08-21-16 08:33 PMLike 0
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Posted via CB10 | SQC100-4 Classic in Cobalt Blue08-21-16 09:11 PMLike 0 - who cares about first iphone and who cares about chicken or the egg. you can spin it anyway you want. it does not matter. apps make smartphone a smartphone. you can pretend that bb10 is superior to Android and you can write endless posts about it. at the same time I will do everything with my priv that bb10 cannot do and no...i am not talking about games but actual work. having two bb10 phones I can tell you straight that blackberry 10 cannot touch android in...productivity. android is way more productive than bb10 because apps make android more productive. if you like blackberry as I do and you want blackberry to keep releasing phones just get android based blackberry.
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Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB1008-21-16 10:55 PMLike 0 - They told you they bought the phones because the phones were the popular models. That's not the same thing as those people "wanting to fit in" - rather is those people wanting a phone with lots of app and service support. YOU were the one who made that leap - because that's your perception of how they think, based on your view that their choices are wrong. I'm fairly certain your assumption is false.
A. They do not like typing on glass and must have a pkb
B. I would always ask what apps they would need/want, and these individuals specifically said they didn't need any of those (there were others who expressed a need for pkb, but also expressed that they wanted apps, I didn't recommend BB to them despite the keyboard issue)
C. I asked if they wanted a big screen to watch media on, and ONLY the ones that apply for A and B, and also said no to this question.
Given that BB really was the only option for pkb, and that these individuals don't use apps and didn't plan to, and they wouldn't mind the smaller screen, I recommended BB10 to this handful of people. All of them except one (who got a Q10 and now a Passport) ended up buying a Samsung or iPhone. When I asked them why, not a single one of them named a single feature, never mentioned the word apps, and specifically told me it's only because they were told that phone was more popular or hip...
I don't get why it's such a stretch for you to realize that people make decisions for all kinds of reasons, including the desire to fit in. Ask yourself how many people who used to make fun of Pokemon now play Pokemon GO and publicize it all over social media that they do simply because it's popular now? Oh, let me guess, you don't know one person right? Ok...
Heck, there are posts here on CB where someone said they tried to be loyal to BB but after being made fun of by their friends they caved and bought an Android or iPhone. But hey, let's not make assumptions now... lol
Edit: And just FYI, most of these people were like coworkers or otherwise acquaintances. The one who ended up with the Q10 and then a Passport is a close friend, and 2 of the ones that went with an Android or iPhone are also friends. So while I have no idea of the current situation with the others, one of these two, the only app she has that, well, will not be on BB10 anymore is Whatsapp. She has literally not downloaded any other apps, not even Facebook... The other has Whatsapp, Facebook (which wasn't an issue at the time of her asking me for advice), and Instagram, that's it. At the time of her purchase, she didn't have Instagram yet, so she could have easily used BB10 and had not missed out on anything she wished to use her phone for. I probably would have loaded Instagram on the phone for her when that time came as well. But hey, none of this means anything. There isn't a single person in this universe that makes decisions based on fitting in, people don't buy clothes or anything based on what's popular, people don't get haircuts based on what's trending, none of those things ever happen, that's crazy talk... Lol
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08-21-16 11:04 PMLike 0 - BB10's development already ended 20 months ago, and the developers reassigned or laid off.
BB10's support will continue through early next year, via the 2 security updates promised. How useful it will still be by then is a big question mark, though, as what little third-party support BB10 ever had is fading fast, and the Android Runtime is forever stuck at v4.3 and quickly becoming obsolete.
I wish they would bring back some of that money QNX is making off of the automobile industry to dump it into their mobile OS platform although obviously has to be something holding that back as to not be a wise business move or possibly impossible if google won't allow it!
Posted via CB10Avenzuno likes this.08-21-16 11:30 PMLike 1 - To me, the more choices the consumer has, the better. I don't want just two OS choices in the world. We could frankly use more than the choices we do have. Competition would keep raising the bar.
Just my opinion.
I like my coffee BlackBerry� black! What?08-26-16 09:08 AMLike 2 -
I've got no "insecurity" about my choice of phone.08-26-16 12:34 PMLike 3 -
- I'm not sure I understand what you're "hoping for", but BB10 will receive at least two more minor updates (10.3.3 soon and 10.3.4 next year).
That will probably be the end. But the devices should continue to work for some time after.
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Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB10KAM1138 likes this.08-26-16 11:51 PMLike 1 - You're hallucinating the same way I have been obviously... Remember that nobody buys things based on trends either. If you know someone who did, you must have dreamt the entire thing up like I have. These collective hallucinations are crazy...
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Perhaps I just associate with older people who are aware of Blackberry.
KAM08-29-16 09:44 AMLike 0 - prob a post unto itself here- but the DTEK or any other blackberry android is, at the very most, slightly more secure than a stock android device from another OEM. Security, though, is not privacy. The DTEK may more securely transmit your information to google, but it's not private. Note here, also, the direction windows 10 is going, ie signing in with an outlook/ MS acct.
The only private phones would be CM, BB10 and this Copperhead OS that I recently read about. BB10, of course, would allow BB to take the place of google, but I think we all can agree, that google is siphoning off info in a completely different kind of way, read advertising.
This is why I cannot stay with BB absent BB10; I'd just assume take google completely out of the equation, or limit them by only installing the play store (pico)- of course under a fake gmail acct....08-31-16 11:11 AMLike 0 - you can pretend that bb10 is superior to Android and you can write endless posts about it. at the same time I will do everything with my priv that bb10 cannot do and no...i am not talking about games but actual work. having two bb10 phones I can tell you straight that blackberry 10 cannot touch android in...productivity. android is way more productive than bb10 because apps make android more productive. if you like blackberry as I do and you want blackberry to keep releasing phones just get android based blackberry.
For the record, I'm still keeping my passport, but soon making the move to BlackBerry android for work purposes. There are admittedly a few android ported apps that no longer work on my passport that are essential to my job. Without them I cannot perform all of my daily tasks anymore, which makes me less productive in that sense.
Posted via CB10bigjman and nhatanh181 like this.08-31-16 03:55 PMLike 2 - BB10's development already ended 20 months ago, and the developers reassigned or laid off.
BB10's support will continue through early next year, via the 2 security updates promised. How useful it will still be by then is a big question mark, though, as what little third-party support BB10 ever had is fading fast, and the Android Runtime is forever stuck at v4.3 and quickly becoming obsolete.
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