Blackberry phones to stop working as company finally pulls plug
Blackberry phones to stop working
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Time for Doug Ford to get a new phone!
BlackBerry phones to stop working as company finally pulls plug
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Time for Doug Ford to get a new phone!
I got an iPhone 2 I can sell himBlackberry phones to stop working as company finally pulls plug
Blackberry phones to stop working
Time for Doug Ford to get a new phone!
I had a couple Blackberry's and thought they were pretty good...I changed to iphone the first time they got in trouble.
BBM was the ultimate tool to pick-up girls.
9000 Bold still a top 5 all-time.
9000 Bold still a top 5 all-time.
Blackberry's software operations are still alive and well. Although they were too slow to innovate with their phones and other hardware, I do miss their devices. I had 5-6 blackberry phones over the years and I especially liked the Q10. It was the perfect size and weight and fit into most pant pockets. Most modern cell phones don't fit comfortably into most guys' pant pockets. Am I the only guy that wishes modern phones were a little more compact? Not an issue during coat wearing season or if you carry a purse, but otherwise a pain.
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The demise of RIM was a national disgrace like the AVRO arrow collapse . Other countries would have underwritten something like RIM but not Canada. Blackberry’s founders were also pricks at times, indecisive to the demise of the companies fortunes.
Image how things would be today if was Blackberry thriving, going at head to head with Apple, imagining the innovations and competition. I guess we will never know!!
Image how things would be today if was Blackberry thriving, going at head to head with Apple, imagining the innovations and competition. I guess we will never know!!
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We also lost NORTEL. We don't seem to have any global technology companies.
They were great inventors and owe their past success at being the first to introduce ground breaking technolgies on a large scale, especially for business purposes. They were less sucesssful at evolving and upgrading the technologies that they initially brought to the market, and they underestimated the demand of cell phones for personal use. Maintaining market share and ongoing innovation requires a different skill set than those that made them big. Might be a different story today had they supplemented their leadership team with people with these attributes.
I wonder if it would have made a difference if they were able to partner or joint venture with a larger global company? I owned some RIM shares (cost $3), finally sold them in March 2020 when the share price ran up into the $20's.
Good investing on your part. Kudos! Partnering could have helped as well. Partnering is another way to bring different skill sets to the table. Companies require different types of leadership at different stages of their life cycle. The RIM/bb leadership group was great at launching new products and technologies but they needed help for subsequent business cycle phases.
Blackberry Phones that use blackberry operating systems are going to stop working yes.
But any BlackBerry phones which utilize android will still work.
But any BlackBerry phones which utilize android will still work.
Blackberry QNX is a very respected real time mission critical operating system for embedded electronics, and is doing very well.
There is now more to BB than their phones.
There is now more to BB than their phones.
Remember when blackberry pushed the narrative “blackberrys are for work iPhones are for play”?
my BB Pearl was the worst phone I’ve ever had. Wouldn’t hold a charge abs you had to take the battery out to reboot it several times a day.
If Basillie hadn’t fucked around trying to buy a hockey team he could have stopped the tsunami that was iPhone and Samsung.
he’s an idiot and his idiotic phones can go the way of the dodo
my BB Pearl was the worst phone I’ve ever had. Wouldn’t hold a charge abs you had to take the battery out to reboot it several times a day.
If Basillie hadn’t fucked around trying to buy a hockey team he could have stopped the tsunami that was iPhone and Samsung.
he’s an idiot and his idiotic phones can go the way of the dodo
I’ll try to find the article, but I remember the theory as to Nortel’s demise was combination of Chinese espionage and lack of political will…. Nortel was gutted and Canada allowed the fire sale as the technology was already stolen. Maybe Huawei is really Nortel?
