BlackBerry Live: What We Didn't Get
Hey All,
OK... It was a CRAZY week for us at BlackBerry Live. Unless you're there to see us in action, I'm not sure you can appreciate just how nuts of a time it is for us. And this year we made more work for ourselves by adding CrackBerry Live into the mix. I'm so glad we did it, but wow... a LOT of work.
We still have more BlackBerry Live coverage to come. We really focused on getting up all the news posts, session posts and CrackBerry Live videos as fast as we could during the week. Now that the event is over, I'll have more time once I fly home tomorrow to sit down and write up longer editorials on the event. It takes me a while to do those kinds of posts, but I have a bunch on my list to get done up.
One of the posts I want to write up is BlackBerry Live: What We Didn't Get. As much as the forums have been buzzing about the news of the week (BBM Channels, going cross-platform, Q5), even more so the forums have been going nuts about what didn't get released or addressed by BlackBerry this week.
The bigger "let downs" as I'm seeing them right now are:
- no BlackBerry 10 update for the PlayBook yet (and is kinda starting to feel like it may never come?!)
- no update on Instagram / Netflix / (insert your app name you want but didn't get)
- Q10s being released in the USA in June instead of May
I think those are the biggies on the "consumer" side of BlackBerry. On the developer side there are some different things I think developers we're hoping would be already here (headless apps, jellybean runtime) that will still require some waiting.
I'd like to see is this thread now turn into a constructive conversation around BBLive and what were the things you were hoping for that didn't happen, and why it's important to you, etc..
As I write up my full out editorial, I'd love to pull quotes from posts on this thread as I write up my longer editorial that reflects the feelings and constructive criticisms of the community. So if I pull a quote from your post, I'll put it in the article and attribute it to your username.
Sound like a plan? Let the discussion begin!