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I find it endlessly amusing that I've 'progressed' in my home browsing habits from a laptop, to a Playbook, to the Q10.

pram posted:

he bought a playbook

Nelson MandEULA posted:

YOU MONSTERS!! YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?!?!

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

tools not toys

MORE CURLY FRIES posted:

makes sense for minecraft

MORE CURLY FRIES posted:

sorry im busy checking my emails over here

MORE CURLY FRIES posted:

platinum grenade

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

just fuckin with ya

also why does everyone have a grenade next to their name now

"the grauniad posted:

Bad news, BlackBerry: UK user base will fall below that of Windows Phone this year
Forecast from eMarketer says that dwindling BlackBerry users will be outnumbers by those with Microsoft’s Windows Phone – though Android and iPhone will extend lead into 2015


BlackBerry’s Z10 met indifferent buyer reactions - and now the company’s strong position in the UK is being eroded. Photograph: Nathan Denette/AP

BlackBerry’s UK user base will fall below that of Windows Phone this year, ending its position as a stronghold for the brand in Europe, according to new data from research group eMarketer.

From a position at the end of 2013 where BlackBerry had 3.6m UK users, against 1.9m for Windows Phone and legacy Windows Mobile users, by the end of this year Blackberry will have 2.4m users - against 2.7m for Microsoft’s platform, eMarketer says.

By contrast Android phone use will have gone from 16.5m to 19.3m in the same time, and Apple’s iPhone from 9.6m to 11.1m, eMarketer says. Between them, Android phones and iPhones will have 53% and 30.5% of the smartphone market by the end of 2015, eMarketer says - and forecasts that will grow to 54% and 31.5% respectively by the end of 2015.

By then BlackBerry’s installed base is forecast to have fallen to just 1.4m consumers, eMarketer says.

The decline is a blow for BlackBerry, for which the UK was once a key market. It depends for the majority of its revenues on handset sales - which have crashed from a quarterly high of nearly 15m at the end of 2010 to only 1.6m in its most recent financial quarter.

But the news is encouraging for Microsoft, which has been trying to catch up with the growth of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android since launching Windows Phone in 2010.

“The demise of BlackBerry has long been documented, but these numbers highlight just how far it has fallen from grace,” said Bill Fisher, UK analyst at eMarketer. “Android and iOS are clearly dominant, but while Microsoft is making significant effort to grow its presence by buying Nokia’s mobile phone unit and recently partnering with HTC to offer a Windows-based version of the flagship HTC One M8, BlackBerry appears to have been treading water.”


eMarketer estimates for UK smartphone installed base by platform 2013-2015. Photograph: /eMarketer


Amid thumping losses and buyer indifference to its new BB10 handsets, BlackBerry ousted its previous chief executive Thorsten Heins in September 2013, and replaced him with outsider John Chen, who was given a mission to turn the loss-making smartphone company around.

Chen has cut jobs and focussed the company on its “core competency” of secure messaging for businesses and governments - leading to the claim today by David Cameron that he relies on his BlackBerry to run the country remotely.

But it seems that will not reverse BlackBerry’s slide among consumers, even as usage of smartphones grows.

Windows Phone will have a 7.5% share of the UK installed base by the end of 2014, and 9% - or 3.5m users - by the end of 2015, the company says.

That still leaves Windows Phone some distance behind the iPhone, forecasts to have 12.4m users then, and Android phones overall, expected to have 21.3m users.

Following a dramatic rise in smartphone penetration during 2013 to reach 64.3% of all mobile phone users, and 51.6% of all the population, eMarketer says that by the end of 2014 smartphone ownership will hit 69.5% of mobile phone users, and 56.1% of the population.

But it forecasts a slowdown by the end of 2018, with user numbers growing that year by only 3.4% to around 46.4m, by which time 84.8% of mobile phone users will have one.

Nokia’s discontinued Symbian still has faithful users, according to the study, which reckons there were 1m users at the end of 2014 and will still be 0.5m at the end of this year. The last Symbian phone was released in 2012, but data from Kantar, another research company, shows that Symbian ownership in the UK peaked in September 2010 at around 7m users, or 37% of smartphone owners at the time.

Nelson MandEULA posted:

shocked this hadn't happened already:

Bonzo posted:

Nope. Still buying other companies http://www.theglobeandmail.com/tech...rticle20531197/

Kenny Logins posted:

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Kenny Logins posted:

Kenny Logins posted:

London Gets Launch Event For BlackBerry Ltd (BBRY) Porsche Design P’9983



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FMguru posted:

the article doesnt make it clear if its london, england or london, ontario

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

My friend owns the 2 PD stores in Illinois (Chicago & some suburb somewhere) and he says those PDBBs are bought almost exclusively by middle eastern guys.

Kenny Logins posted:

dubai event gonna be poppin' then

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

i also have no idea how he made so much money on the first store that he was able to open the second. poo poo, he said he'd charge me cost on anything i wanted and i still don't want anything there.

Kenny Logins posted:

they do mention "the harrods" which idk if london, on has a ripoff of that too or not

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RIM had a complete internal panic when Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, a former employee revealed this weekend. The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage, and to have made outlandish claims about its features. Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet.

The iPhone “couldn’t do what [Apple was] demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life,” Shacknews poster Kentor heard from his former colleagues of the time. “Imagine their surprise [at RIM] when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it.”

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the Harrods

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

My friend owns the 2 PD stores in Illinois (Chicago & some suburb somewhere) and he says those PDBBs are bought almost exclusively by middle eastern guys.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

gonna ignore that thing on the left and just marvel at how impressively 2008 the one on the right is