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WeAreNotAlone You haven't missed much -FanBoys of RIM/BlackBerry, and the various shills (People that might work for RIM, or otherwise PROFIT from RIM doing good) are trying to say the CEO of a major corporation saying BB10 would be available after the phones running BB10 came out and going back on that promise / his word is no big deal.
All I have to say to the fanboys who have bought a phone running BB10 is I hope BlackBerry/RIM puts the same effort into fixing problems or issues YOUR device may have.... Promising issues be fixed... drag it out as long as possible, then go back on their word as "they" (RIM) needs to be focusing on the next round of devices.
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Internal memo 12-18 months from now -written by the CEO after being given TRUTH SERUM :
INTERNAL USE ONLY:
From: CEO of BlackBerry /RIM
Date: 2014-12-02
To all departments:
Subject: All developments and improvements to the BB10 operating system and devices shipped with the BB10 OS have been CANCELLED.
As you know the sales of BB10 OS powered devices did not meet our sales projections and the OS itself gained a reputation of not having key features (and apps) potential customers expected... (EG: No or poor integration with Android or Apple devices assuming the device will ONLY be paired with a RIM product, totally disregarding apps people want such as Netflix, *ability to source apps from other sources, Convoluted process to get Android apps to run on the device ala EOL PlayBook series we killed off back in mid part of 2013. )
Diehard fanboys bought the products but when word of the issues reached the public sales dropped exponentially and the amount of returns have increased 100 fold over our worst projections.
Due to the lack of sales we have hundreds of thousands of these devices scattered in various warehouses and amongst various retailers that just aren't selling. Retailers aren't happy, nether am I as I was counting as your CEO to get a 100 MILLION DOLLAR BONUS this year alone.
(I've been looking to buy my own country in the South Pacific to retire to... Been looking at 210ft yachts as well... HEY- A guy has to be comfortable, right?)
So, As your CEO.... Instead of forfeiting my bonus check of 100 million that could have gone into improving BB10 devices I developed a plan:
To spur sales of this BB10 dead inventory - I made public announcements that current owner of BB10 devices would get a free update to BB11 and had my shills make various posts on the net promoting this. As projected this got the dead inventory moving out the door.
The second part of the plan was to DELAY what I learned within a week after I made the announcement - EG: there is no way current BB10 devices would run BB11. Upon learning this I kept this under my hat so to speak as we had to clear that dead inventory.
Once the inventory was reduced to manageable levels, only then info was released that BB11 would not be coming to BB10 devices.
Simple plan and it worked.
So as of now ALL departments are ordered to stop any further work or wasting manpower on BB10 powered devices. They are considered EOL (End of Life)
The "future" is BB11 OS....
All manpower has been assigned to promoting the BB11 OS - this is our focus.
All developers are to imminently focus on the BB11, not BB10 OS, No BB10 patches or product improvements will be forthcoming, and the number of BB10 apps has been frozen.
Anyone caught working on doing any kind of improvements, or working on getting various key features of the BB11 ported into the BB10 OS will be FIRED.
Additionally, to reduce costs and improve profits further we are following a page out of Microsoft's "playbook" - As with Windows WM 6.5.. when WM7 came out we will: "A: Freeze the app store, then B: about 6 months later totally shut down the app store.
Without a app store, BB10 users will be forced to migrate to BB11... Since a BB10 device won't run BB11 we'll be there waiting with a new round of BB11 devices... so we profit again.
Got to run, off to look for a island in the South Pacific.
Boy it's great to be the CEO.
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