Now where will I have to go for a keyboard and an OS not by Google?
BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
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Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#152We're closing in on the launch of cross-platform BBM, and much of the work for that wasn't even done internally. They contracted that stuff out. Now they're cutting actual BB people. A lot of it is dead weight, and the usual bloated middle management, but I can't wait to see who else gets the axe here. Make no mistake, the goal is to sell the company at this point. That is why BBM is suddenly the focus. They know tha…
This is incorrect. It was mostly done in-house, with some outside help.
Mostly? This may depend on perspective. The infrastructure behind the app is definitely in-house, but the UI isn't at all.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would agree with you. In a former life I had interactions with BB in a sales capacity. I sold into or had customers at many of the Top 50 "tech" companies. BB/Rim had one of the strangest, most insular cultures I came across. Maybe early on they felt really patronized by US/SV VC's/companies etc and so were anti US. Either way it was quite odd. I really wondered how that would end up working out for them.
It's hard to really put a finger on whether it's a part of being Canadian or whether particular businesses and corporations are constantly in search a state of denial. For the longest time, Microsoft was in the state of denial about their competition and refused to admit they were/are far behind them. But on the other hand, you have Silicon Valley culture that tends to fuel adoption and promotion of products/startups…
Yes. In general when I sold to Canadian companies one had to tread differently vs US companies. There is an inherent sort of reserve for US companies. Yet RIM went well beyond that (just one person's experience though)
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an empty, useless comment full of hot air, and using swear words does nothing to support the poor assumptions and reasoning that you made. The "best" devices will never sell without marketing. And if RIM does move to Android, that signals that they gave up and tried to stave off their decline/death by exploiting the Android market. Not to mention that with the competition, RIM has even less of a chance. I rec…
Half of your comments on HN so far are meta comments about how bad other comments are. You will not have a good time of it if you continue down this path. Stay on topic.
I mainly browse HN to read good/stimulating discussions and submissions, to expand my knowledge, to see other users' reasoning, to develop and maintain a improvement/scientist attitude, and to try to maintain a good quality experience for other users. I'm not here to "have a good time" - if that's what you mean.
But I'm noticing a trend in decreasing submission and comment quality, and I don't know if other users realize that or if they are ignorant of it. HN is becoming more "average" everyday, and I feel that more and more readers are commenting with ignorance, unfounded assumptions, and generally bad arguments overall. In short, a lot of the comments are useless/inaccurate/invalid. I'm sure you notice it as well? How are we supposed to address this issue?
If it's frowned upon to post meta-comments (on HN or any forum or article), then I wish there was a service or feature (not restricted to HN) that allows people to submit/receive feedback and constructive criticism on their comments and diction.
You see many people using words such as "obviously", "only", "completely", but this category of words (degree/intensifier adverbs) is improper/inaccurate to use many times because of the unfounded/unsupported assumptions that they imply. It make me cringe every time I see that. It's an identifying feature of a bad comment, or one that could be better if more effective diction were used.
And improperly using those words puts a severe hole in the argument, but people still treat these types of comments the same way as valid ones when they shouldn't.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intel is fine. They have such a huge manufacturing and capital advantage they can afford to lose time after time, whereas the likes of AMD and ARM can only afford to lose once. Intel will own the mobile space in a decade or so.
Could you define how "ARM" would lose, given that "ARM" is an ISA which has different licensing levels and is implemented by multiple companies (including some that are larger than Intel - Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple).
I understand all that. Eventually companies like Samsung will be forced to abandon ARM because they'll get a better power/performance ratio from Intel than they can produce in house.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but they have a reputation of throwing money at something for a long period of time and it succeeding.
People keep saying this, but there's little evidence outside of the X Box.
Yes, the main evidence is Xbox. Bing is an ok example. It has a little market share where Google dominates(I think around 15% to 20%). I think they would be happy to have that in mobile.
Re: BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an empty, useless comment full of hot air, and using swear words does nothing to support the poor assumptions and reasoning that you made. The "best" devices will never sell without marketing. And if RIM does move to Android, that signals that they gave up and tried to stave off their decline/death by exploiting the Android market. Not to mention that with the competition, RIM has even less of a chance. I rec…
Half of your comments on HN so far are meta comments about how bad other comments are. You will not have a good time of it if you continue down this path. Stay on topic.
Update: I think HN may want to implement the scoring system used on Slashdot to evaluate posts/comments based on relevance, usefulness, information, or insight. This way, there will be no need to post meta-comments to attempt to correct negative behavior that results in the degradation of the community and the decreasing insight and relevance of posts.