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U.K. then Canada, interesting. I wonder why their home country isn't first?
why are so many people excited over this? all I got was...blackberry has apps...what's my incentive to switch from android then?
My reasons for being excited: 1) Physical keyboard in the Q10 2) No Android, no Google 3) Hardware and software made by the same company 4) No Samsung/HTC/etc crapware customizations 5) Hopefully more top-down design and app store curation ala iOS 6) My Bold 9900 feels expensive; most Android phones I've played with feel cheap and plasticky 7) LTE, which the otherwise interesting Nexus 4 doesn't have 8) The BB10 UI l…
"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director." "We needed someone who is creative, and into technology." "Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director." NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director." "We needed someone who is creative, and into technology." "Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director." NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's a silly position, but I can see why they did it. Blackberry used to be cool. Now it most definitely is not. There's an argument to be made that they should give up on the consumer market and just go "all professional", of course, but I'm not sure that works long term.
That's exactly what they tried to do, and is why they're in the situation they are in today. Instead of focusing on making the devices great for consumers, they focused on selling devices to businesses.
But then something completely foreseeable happened: employees wanted iPhones. Soon after that, those employees started complaining about carrying around two devices. Thus the "bring your own device" IT trend started, and has been killing RIM for the last 4 years.
No, either BlackBerry cedes all control of the market they were once the only player in, or they sell to consumers.
"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director." "We needed someone who is creative, and into technology." "Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director." NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
In that light, I'm not sure this executive appointment sends the positive message that RIM, er... BlackBerry... thinks it does. Resorting to stunts that the Mega guys were doing years ago is hardly cool or creative.
>The Z10, which starts at $199 with a wireless contract, will be available on Jan. 31 in the U.K., on Feb. 5 in Canada, and in March in the U.S. The Q10 will follow in coming weeks, the company said. U.K. then Canada, interesting. I wonder why their home country isn't first?
>The Z10, which starts at $199 with a wireless contract, will be available on Jan. 31 in the U.K., on Feb. 5 in Canada, and in March in the U.S. The Q10 will follow in coming weeks, the company said. U.K. then Canada, interesting. I wonder why their home country isn't first?
70k Apps on the New Platform. I am very impressed by this. They mentioned all the popular apps that have come onboard.. but I didn't see a mention of Instagram. That resonates with the young crowd. Instagram should have been in the Keynote pitch! Never the less, this could have gone horribly wrong, but I think BB did good today. edit: I hope the iPhone does something similar to Peak. Which I thought was a lot more in…
What good is 70k apps if ~69k of them are are crap?
70k Apps on the New Platform. I am very impressed by this. They mentioned all the popular apps that have come onboard.. but I didn't see a mention of Instagram. That resonates with the young crowd. Instagram should have been in the Keynote pitch! Never the less, this could have gone horribly wrong, but I think BB did good today. edit: I hope the iPhone does something similar to Peak. Which I thought was a lot more in…
Can you install apps without a gatekeeper on Blackberry 10? Like you can currently do on OSX, Windows, Android etc? How was this in previous versions?
IIRC from my time with the PlayBook, everything has to be signed, but there's minimal hoops to getting your own signing key (no fee). Unclear if you could load arbitrary apps that you haven't personally signed, never tried. Old BlackBerry, everything had to be signed by RIM's servers, even for dev builds. Which is incredibly entertaining when their servers go down while you're trying to get a release out (those days…