- I've had than curious gazes for my BlackBerry Z10 all coming from iPhone users they all wanted to know where they could get it. When I told them three, they went straight to looking it up on their iPhone, pretty neat, huh. One guy asked if it was HTC one, when I told him it was BlackBerry he wouldn't even look at it though
Richard05-27-13 09:01 AMLike 0 - Its okay for peeps to usee iPhones with BB devices even if they are employees.
it just gets to show that they like to try different OS / features and also shows other people that if you have an iphone doesnt mean you have the best of the world. you need to try a blackberry too
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk05-27-13 09:07 AMLike 0 - All the employees at the Virgin Mobile booth near my house wear BB Z10 t-shirts at work, regardless of their personal choice of mobile phone. As far as I know, only the manager uses Blackberry. The person you saw may have to wear the shirt to work ... maybe they have an iPhone for personal use, and were loaned a Q10 for testing/selling purposes.05-27-13 12:17 PMLike 0
- I have yet to see another Z10 in the wild in nyc, and definitely haven't seen a Q10. That is until I just saw a person on a train with what looked like a BlackBerry employee shirt under her sweatshirt, but she was using an iphone so that can't be, right? Then she whipped out a Q10 and she switched between the devices 3 or 4 times during the trip. Happy to see a bb10 device, disappointed to see the BlackBerry employees rocking iphones in public with their BlackBerry shirts on.
Posted via CB1005-27-13 03:10 PMLike 0 - Thorstein Heins admitted to using a SGS3, albeit probably to gauge the competition. People use the competitor's products all the time. Heck, our own Crackberry Kevin went to an iPad event wearing an iMore shirt last year!
I'd like to think the person on the train using an iPhone was beta testing BBM .05-27-13 04:53 PMLike 0 - Haha I would have done the same. You can't let a fine piece of technology take the plunge to its death if there's something you can do about it. And yeah, she was wearing the same type of shirts that I had seen the BlackBerry employees wear in stores like best buy and stuff. Just comes off as weird to wear a shirt repping one company and then hold the competitors phone. Makes people think that maybe your brand isn't good enough.
Posted via CB1005-27-13 05:09 PMLike 0 - Can you point me to the useful business apps available in bb world? I found lots of flashlight, led, sexual positions, and games. No quickbooks, autocad, or banking apps (at least none of the major US banks).05-27-13 09:04 PMLike 0
- Yes, I'm serious. Say you work for Apple and you start carrying a BlackBerry around, what do you think onlookers would think about the phone you represent? Obviously people here, some of us anyway, are able to read into a situation, we're current on news, so yeah, maybe she was testing cross platform BBM, but I doubt the common person on the 7 train even knows that that's a thing. People would think that the company you work for doesn't produce a phone that's good enough so you have to go elsewhere. How is nobody else seeing this. When your job consists of you representing a brand, you are an extension of that brand, no matter where you go. I, personally, think it's in bad taste to do what she did regardless of whether or not there was good reason for it, because it looks bad.
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Also ... for example Microsoft purchased several hundred PowerMac G5's just less than 30 days after Apple officially launched it years ago and claiming the fastest shipping computer. Which they where right but where asked to pull that 6months from their ad because Dell had a BTO that finally matched it. The initial thought was that Microsoft couldn't purchase a competitive machine from one of it's licensees and wasn't good for the brand back then as well. Turns out M$ required the RISC based CPU's and a platform for coding the XBox!!
Time shows us what is really going on from what we just get a glimpse of now.05-27-13 09:18 PMLike 0 - 05-27-13 09:36 PMLike 0
- Is it possible that the girl was not even a BlackBerry employee but someone who works for a third party like a carrier or phone retail shop that happens to have been promoting BlackBerry and had to where the shirts? I do think that the actual BlackBerry sales team is smarter than that and this individual is third party As some have pointed out, maybe the iPhone is their personal phone and the BlackBerry is a demo / work phone. Or maybe she just owns a BlackBerry branded shirt. At least they are using a Blackberry. I would be more disappointed if they were not using a BlackBerry at all in the moment you had with this person.
Sent from my HTC One using CB Forums mobile app05-27-13 09:45 PMLike 0 - I have yet to see another Z10 in the wild in nyc, and definitely haven't seen a Q10. That is until I just saw a person on a train with what looked like a BlackBerry employee shirt under her sweatshirt, but she was using an iphone so that can't be, right? Then she whipped out a Q10 and she switched between the devices 3 or 4 times during the trip. Happy to see a bb10 device, disappointed to see the BlackBerry employees rocking iphones in public with their BlackBerry shirts on.
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05-27-13 10:15 PMLike 0 - I have yet to see another Z10 in the wild in nyc, and definitely haven't seen a Q10. That is until I just saw a person on a train with what looked like a BlackBerry employee shirt under her sweatshirt, but she was using an iphone so that can't be, right? Then she whipped out a Q10 and she switched between the devices 3 or 4 times during the trip. Happy to see a bb10 device, disappointed to see the BlackBerry employees rocking iphones in public with their BlackBerry shirts on.
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...And couldn't get it with the new Blackberry because it doesn't support that.
...Given an iphone 4 has no problems with doing this that might be why she was using it.05-28-13 03:06 AMLike 0 -
Especially when you consider all you need to do is install your updates.
But what ever.
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