Originally Posted by
joshua_sx1 The real issue why BB10 devices are being slammed against its mediocre hardware specs is because of its premium pricing that is certainly more than those Android devices with top hardware specs... it is somehow accepted that like iOS, BB10 has potential to compete with efficency and user experience specifically with Android, but unlike iOS, they have one advantage that even Android still trying to achieve i.e. a huge ecosystem of apps and games - and so, they have confidence to price their devices at premium not to mention its built quality...
BlackBerry, whether we like it or not, is starting all over with its BB10 OS... they should compete in criteria that they will have advantages... they should take the "pricing" as advantage...
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I won't disagree with you about the pricing could use adjusting. But in all reality the amount even if apple did not have all their app selections, do you think people will simply stop buying iphones? I doubt it.
People also buy iphones because it's simplistic and has a premium feel to the quality (ignoring iphone 5c). The price iphone charges for their phones works because of their brand name + just simply how smooth their os runs on their phones.
If you were to pick between two phones one having thousands and thousands more apps (mostly repetitive) but feels sluggish due to the cluster of incompatible softwares running in the background to the point some basic phone functions even feel slow. Or a phone with the background (availability for ease to develope) for a good app market, but at the same time offers smooth user interface and more efficient gestures. Which one would you pick?
Personally I use my phone more for messaging, email and browsing and I simply don't need all those apps and I prefer the efficiency.
So now the question is. At the end of the day does it matter if your phone has quad cores or dual cores if your user experience with the phone is great? Personally I think if my phone works like how I expect it to, I couldn't care less about the hardware aspect. And the black berry 10 delivers that experience to me better than android or ios has.
For me IOS was lacking in the keyboard aspect, and android was lacking in the simplicity as well as efficiency. But back in 2011 there really weren't many choices to pick from were there? It was either ios or android. And as a consumer I was annoyed with either decision. For me every time I upgraded my phone I felt like I was wasting my money for the exact same experience between the two phones, and I would gladly pay the same price or even higher for something different. And long behold the opportunity came when blackberry introduced bb10. It was my first blackberry and I was skeptical about it. I just upgraded from my iPhone 4 to iphone 5 not even six month ago. I dreaded my iPhone battery and keyboard but that was all they offered because as we all know iphone doesn't really offer variety. While I didn't want to go through the hassle of Android with its thousands of phones to pick for a system that wasn't efficient in my perspective. But after truly using the blackberry z10 for the first two weeks, being the technology geek I was I learned all the tricks and found myself in love with the new operating system. Everything from the hub to the keyboard was just better beyond anything I experienced from android or ios. The app side didn't bother me expect not having a banking app mint.com, but I soon found out how to side load and it only took me less than 3minutes to side load all the apps I missed.
So what am I getting at?
My experience with blackberry 10 os far surpassing anything I tried before, and not once during using the phone have i thought about "if only this hardware was better I could do this..." and the experience I had with their phone justifies the price I personally paid for it regardless of what people say. Hardware only matters when everything is on even grounds. And android ios and bb10 are not on an even ground.