Originally Posted by
heading4tomorrow So basically it's truly bad news and that we should not expect much more fixes, is that it?
Honestly the bugs that are present in most recent releases are really irritating. The only thing that's keeping me and many other users with blackberry is the HUB (and all messaging functionality that comes with it). That's it. If there was an equivalent of hub on Android/Windows/iOS, there wouldn't be a BB today.
Nobody cares about much else, yeah sure their devices just looks fine, feels good, but let's not kid ourselves, it is nothing special. So if they don't build more on the existing blackberry fan base and invest more in exclusive features that kept people with blackberry, they will be doomed forever. When you mention best in class reception, voice quality and data transfer and many of us who experience wifi problems, crawling data transfer speeds, lack of USA GSM compatible LTE devices, voice quality that's similar to other recent devices in the market, I can easily see those guys being laid off. If they couldn't come up with the stuff to put the BB on the spot, perhaps they weren't that good. Sure, marketing is one thing and we can't really say Chen or anyone else pulled anything special, but if we are still talking about minor issues and simple bugs that took major releases to fix, I guess that may have gotten some people upset.
I also have to remind you all how dog-eat-dog the tech industry has been in recent years, nobody cares about pride or being there since the beginning, they all look at results, and whoever is the new "boss" now considers those people you mentioned just expandables. Usually the corporate is not as sentimental as you or me, they look at it from a business perspective.