[CrackBerry News]

Several years ago BlackBerry started a secret project to bring BES-like features to families. This was way back when the iPhone didn't even have copy and paste yet, the iPad didn't exist and Android had next to no market share. BlackBerry was still king of the smartphone world so the idea of going cross-platform wasn't terribly important yet.
BlackBerry Unite offered families a way to install software on a PC and benefit from a shared contact list and calendar, photo and file sharing and user management. Parents could also act as system administrators. There was a lot of potential behind the product and although it was executed well from a software perspective, the marketing was non-existent.
The project was shut down.

Full story from the Crackberry Blog...

[Blackberry_Boss]

I think it should comeback. I think Chen needs to have a look at all the ideas that where thrown out and brink back a lot of stuff. We all know BlackBerry is guilty of playing it safe when they have had some really good ideas.

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