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Sep 18, 2014 08:24
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Thanks Ants posted:reminder that the advertising for the playbook was "you should have waited", it was priced the same as an ipad, and couldn't do messaging without being tethered to a blackberry "you should of waited"
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Sep 18, 2014 08:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYK9UALCZDE drat i should of waited! 
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Sep 18, 2014 09:12
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minivanmegafun posted:can you buy PD stuff at an actual porsche car dealer or do you have to go to PD outlets I think so. There's some weird licensing poo poo between the two, like PD can't use the Porsche emblem on their stuff
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Sep 18, 2014 13:13
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Thanks Ants posted:reminder that the advertising for the playbook was "you should have waited", it was priced the same as an ipad, and couldn't do messaging without being tethered to a blackberry 
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Sep 18, 2014 13:45
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Kenny Logins posted:further reminder: this happened last week
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Sep 18, 2014 13:51
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I wonder if the person in charge of that twitter account is that delusional or they get told what to post by some exec
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Sep 18, 2014 13:54
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The Kins posted:that'll sure put some butts in seats if there was any justice in this world it should put some butts in the unemployment line
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Sep 18, 2014 13:55
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Skulduggery posted:I wonder if the person in charge of that twitter account is that delusional or they get told what to post by some exec that person probably is the exec
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Sep 18, 2014 13:55
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Skulduggery posted:I wonder if the person in charge of that twitter account is that delusional or they get told what to post by some exec if it were you, what would you post? it's not like they can say "we're doomed; buy the other guy's stuff"
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Sep 18, 2014 13:55
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prefect posted:if it were you, what would you post? it's not like they can say "we're doomed; buy the other guy's stuff" "wanna buy a playbook? real cheap, it fell off the truck"
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Sep 18, 2014 13:56
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prefect posted:if it were you, what would you post? it's not like they can say "we're doomed; buy the other guy's stuff" "anyone looking for a social media intern?"
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Sep 18, 2014 13:59
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no but really even if you work there you'd have to be pretty dense to think you're not on a sinking ship
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Sep 18, 2014 14:02
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Skulduggery posted:no but really even if you work there you'd have to be pretty dense to think you're not on a sinking ship i'm sure they have to keep on a happy face. but there are probably a few people who are true believers. either they believe the company will become great again, or the company is still great, or maybe they're just all about the power of positive thinking
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Sep 18, 2014 14:08
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:I think so. There's some weird licensing poo poo between the two, like PD can't use the Porsche emblem on their stuff yeah Porsche has to keep their emblem on actually good products o wait, panamera and cayenne. okay then, I see no reason for them not to go ahead and slap the shield on a blackberry.
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Sep 18, 2014 14:14
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Skulduggery posted:no but really even if you work there you'd have to be pretty dense to think you're not on a sinking ship consider that blackberry must be handing out stock like candy to employees, and while it's still absolutely in the toilet, it has made some big relative jumps lately which might be worth a lot of money to them.
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Sep 18, 2014 14:56
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all the blackberry flag wavers are just going to keep redefining the word 'enterprise' until it means 'places that use blackberry'
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Sep 18, 2014 15:20
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The Management posted:consider that blackberry must be handing out stock like candy to employees, and while it's still absolutely in the toilet, it has made some big relative jumps lately which might be worth a lot of money to them. most of them are either fresh grads or students from Uwaterloo also, nothing else to do in that city really.
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Sep 18, 2014 15:33
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there must be bridges to drop off, trains to jump in front of? it doesn't have to be as bad as working for blackberry.
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Sep 18, 2014 15:56
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I live in Waterloo and work with several ex RIM employees. In 2005 it was an awesome company to work for and had all the perks you would expect a tech company to have. Once 2007 hit, things went south really bad. Every more you made was watched. You got 30 minutes for lunch and god help you if you were late. Most employees also were jaded because management changed every 6 months. You'd get a new manager who would be "We are going to do it THIS way" and then 6 months later he would go somewhere else and the new guy would be "Forget THIS! We are now doing it THAT way" . So no one really cared about performance because they knew it would just soon change anyway. Staff was thin. If you worked the (mandatory) grave yard shift, you were on your own. So if an Exchange admin called at 2am and it took you 3 hours to fix his issues, guess how long the others in the phone queue had to wait for someone to answer? When we have a new ex-RIM employee start, they have a bit of PTSD. Its like if you rescue and new cat and bring him home, he'll hide under the bed for a week. Slowly he'll realize that no one is going to care if he takes an extra smoke break, or steal his lunch from the fridge. They are hiring support positions again but they've pretty much poisoned the market. There are so many tech companies hiring here and no one wants to work at a place that just fired half the city. The only ones that are going back are people who are so lovely that they can't get hired anywhere else or are die hard fanboys.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:32
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FrozenVent posted:maybe he got it for free somehow luigi thirty for his 'calculator' iirc also RIP kevin
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Sep 18, 2014 17:37
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Sign on with Blackberry and have your own RIM job
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Sep 18, 2014 18:40
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Bonzo posted:When we have a new ex-RIM employee start, they have a bit of PTSD. Its like if you rescue and new cat and bring him home, he'll hide under the bed for a week. Slowly he'll realize that no one is going to care if he takes an extra smoke break, or steal his lunch from the fridge. lol
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Sep 18, 2014 19:25
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Kenny Logins posted:London Gets Launch Event For BlackBerry Ltd (BBRY) Porsche Design P’9983 so they're doing a big old launch event, but it's exactly the same as the p'9982 (2013) and the p'9881 (2012) gg blackberry, rehashing yesteryear's failures (pictured: p'9981, the original model) 
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Sep 20, 2014 06:24
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oh someone hosed up in the news story. the p'9983, the new model, runs the new qnx-based OS, and it's hideously ugly also no one has committed to manufacturing it yet. just mockups. vaporware, from the makers of.... poo poo people forgot about. 
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Sep 20, 2014 06:26
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thoughs butans i know it's been posted already but drat
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Sep 20, 2014 06:27
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:oh someone hosed up in the news story. the p'9983, the new model, runs the new qnx-based OS, and it's hideously ugly do they still have a hardware manufacturer? who are they using now? last i heard their hardware "partner" ditched them very publicly before their contract was up. also, one of my clients has a true believer on the executive board. he still has a poo poo ton of bby stock, despite having lived through the nortel collapse. he gets real touchy every time i shoot him down over recommending blackberrys for corporate deployment.
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Sep 20, 2014 10:00
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infernal machines posted:last i heard their hardware "partner" ditched them very publicly before their contract was up.
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Sep 20, 2014 12:55
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LastInLine posted:all three of their major suppliers dumped them publicly they were jabil flextronics and celestica I thought foxcon was making them now
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Sep 20, 2014 15:16
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LastInLine posted:all three of their major suppliers dumped them publicly they were jabil flextronics and celestica jabil is the one i was thinking of. i didn't know about the other two. lol
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Sep 20, 2014 18:17
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graph posted:luigi thirty for his 'calculator' iirc what happened to crackbaby kevin
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Sep 21, 2014 00:27
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wtf is Porsche design idgi
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Sep 22, 2014 00:00
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FrozenVent posted:wtf is Porsche design idgi porche branded devices ostensibly designed by porche designers to match porche aesthetics or something. basically a good way of identifying shitlords with no taste who make poor purchasing decisions and are ripe for bilking.
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Sep 22, 2014 00:05
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infernal machines posted:basically a good way of identifying shitlords with no taste who make poor purchasing decisions and are ripe for bilking.
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Sep 22, 2014 00:14
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FMguru posted:i thought that was the little grenade logo next to their forums name  there's more than one way
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Sep 22, 2014 00:15
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FMguru posted:i thought that was the little grenade logo next to their forums name 
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Sep 22, 2014 00:28
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Beeftweeter posted:what happened to crackbaby kevin 
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Sep 22, 2014 15:59
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Bonzo posted:I thought foxcon was making them now this weekend i learned sony outsourced all their manufacturing to foxconn
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Sep 22, 2014 16:10
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Kenny Logins posted:he coasted on his initial rimm fliff and now runs a bbry case-making company specializing in pizza themes ah, an industry that will see nothing but growth
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Sep 22, 2014 16:51
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Beeftweeter posted:ah, an industry that will see nothing but growth
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