Anyone sad for BlackBerry's downfall?

[aneftp]

Blackberry/RIM relied on huge profits from their government and private corporation contracts. They should have seen the erosion of corporate contracts back in 2009.

By 2010 after they purchased QNX it was too late.

Microsoft is still only in the phone business cause they have much more cash to keep it running.

Look palm was smallest and they fell first. Than Motorola. Than Nokia and now RIM. The bigger pioneers the past 10-15 years are all falling.

It's a 2 horse race with windows far in the rear view mirror. 2013 is a very important year for Microsoft. If they can't gain traction the next 3-4 months I do not think they ever will.

There is no "wow" windows phone. The lumia 1020 should have been released in Sept 2012. The camera was there already in Nokia 808 at that time.

It's unacceptable to have the same phone with same processor one year later and slap a very nice camera and call it new. Nokia is not apple. Only apple can do that.

 

[chimpboy74]

I have a dangle berry for a work phone. The only good thing I can say about it is that it is very well made. I drop mine regularly and it takes it no bother.

Other than that? Meh.

 

[adder7712]

Another nail to the coffin for BB.

 

[DollaTwentyFive]

What is this "Lumia" you speak of?

 

[Antgb84]

I remember the reason to have a BB was because of BBM, wow those were the days. I've never owned one myself, couldn't stand the keyboard and the pixelated display but I knew people swore by it. Torch was their first step to a slow failure. So long BB.

 

[DeathTheKid]

Like said before, I am sad for the workers losing their jobs. However, it is hard for me to find sympathy for the Executive Team. They had all the resources they needed to stay on top, but they didn't listen to the market. If they had released the BB10 around 2009, it would most likely have been a huge seller. I knew after the BB10 flopped, they were a goner.

 

[Assault]

Blackberry isn't going away as a company, just transitioning to its core services. Servers and software services. Staying in the mobile hardware game was an inevitable losing proposition for them. The writing has been on the wall for a couple of years.

I do hope that BBM makes it on to iOS and Android though. Only question is, will it be reliable? Will it even stay on the market?

 

[NuggetSauce]

Blackberry is so 2001. It's been dead to me for many years. Way before the first android and iphone, I preferred using windows mobile PDA phones over it.

Wow, its great at sending electronic mail! whoopee.