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they're going to linger on as an enterprise services company, whatever that means, sort of like how IBM managed to survive. And thanks to QNX they'll be in cars for years to come
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fishmech posted:blackberry os was originally meant to run on a portable revision of the 80386 and just handle displaying and sending email over a low speed wireless data network - not even interfacing with SMS services or traditional pager systems. this was gradually adapted into doing telephony and then actually running other applications. the "pager" models were shortlived and nobody remembers them. they re-did the hardware and re-wrote the software from scratch in a few years later. in 2002 the main product was a multitasking smartphone with 2G internet, that used java for 100% of development, both system and applications. they were way the gently caress ahead of their time, and squandered it all Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i carried around one of these and still got laid. 2003 was a wonderful time. you carried a pager from 1997 and still got laid in 2003 ? that is really quite impressive, since anyone who mattered already had a "real" blackberry by then
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the "pager" models were shortlived and nobody remembers them. they re-did the hardware and re-wrote the software from scratch in a few years later. Reminder: their first device that supported phone calls would only do so with a headset.
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I saw a bby pager one time at the time it was pretty neat but it was basically texting a few years early but for a lot of money I guess?
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:in 2002 the main product was a multitasking smartphone with 2G internet, that used java for 100% of development, both system and applications. they were way the gently caress ahead of their time, and squandered it all it was a garbage os, so bad that they had to throw it out and start over. they didn't even grasp the problem until long after they were eclipsed by good phones.
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 07:15 |
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*turns company 360 degrees and walks right out of the phone market*
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 07:23 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the "pager" models were shortlived and nobody remembers them. I had one (950 Mobitex), and remember it fondly. developing for it was real, real bad though.
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 14:13 |
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Subjunctive posted:I had one (950 Mobitex), and remember it fondly. developing for it was real, real bad though. developing for it? was that like, building custom email clients to interface with ancient corporate email systems so the executives could use their blackberries or something?
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 16:39 |
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i worked at a place that refurbished and repaired them (among other phones) in the early 2000s. everything went to poo poo the moment they tried to add apps
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 17:28 |
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Thanks Ants posted:lmao crackberry is still around
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# ? Feb 17, 2017 17:29 |
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infernal machines posted:this would have been a massive improvement for rim. sadly that dream was not realized you can pry my battery pull app from my cold dead device
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blackberry has been accused of being fucky to their staffCBC News posted:A class action lawsuit against BlackBerry alleges the Canadian smartphone software company denied employees their termination entitlements by transferring them to the Ford Motor Company of Canada and then giving them resignation letters. Nelligan O’Brien Payne's statement on the matter Nelligan O’Brien Payne posted:Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP has commenced a class action against BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”) on behalf of a group of BlackBerry’s employees working in Ontario and across Canada.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 17:15 |
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that's a really hosed up thing to do but is it a typical Canadian thing to implicitly trust what your employer gives you? hell when i was given a resignation letter to sign at 25 years old at a $30k/yr job I still had the foresight to have an attorney review it first
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minivanmegafun posted:that's a really hosed up thing to do but is it a typical Canadian thing to implicitly trust what your employer gives you?
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Kenny Logins posted:if you're dumb enough to work at rimm/bbry in the past decade it's probably typical
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Kenny Logins posted:if you're dumb enough to work at rimm/bbry in the past decade it's probably typical
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fishmech posted:developing for it? was that like, building custom email clients to interface with ancient corporate email systems so the executives could use their blackberries or something? I did hack on a free software email client of the time (I forget the name), but mostly it was building e-cash prototypes based on expensive math and questionable storage behaviour. I remember the development environment rebooting the host computer, until a printf in another part of the code was removed.
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Endless Mike posted:remember when the playbook came out and you couldn't use bbm without logging out of your phone becasue they never envisioned a world where people have multiple blackberrys? You made me curious, so I looked it up and you can actually get a 16GB Playbook on Amazon for $45. I'm kind of tempted, I love useless, dead Operating Systems. It's why I have a Mac lying around.
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Subjunctive posted:I did hack on a free software email client of the time (I forget the name), but mostly it was building e-cash prototypes based on expensive math and questionable storage behaviour. I remember the development environment rebooting the host computer, until a printf in another part of the code was removed. honestly thats more intense development than i thought those devices were capable of handling.
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Q_res posted:You made me curious, so I looked it up and you can actually get a 16GB Playbook on Amazon for $45. don't do it
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there's a real good chance it will never boot and you'll have a $45 paperweight because the battery discharged too far while in storage and the firmware doesn't have the fix that will allow it to charge a discharged battery
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:08 |
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fishmech posted:honestly thats more intense development than i thought those devices were capable of handling. it was not a great experience
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:11 |
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I don't miss BES or BES Express. gently caress both those platforms.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 21:14 |
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i interviewed at a place recently that said they had settled on bes for their mdm and were moving to it.
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Thanks Ants posted:don't do it Now if it was a Touchpad, on the other hand
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infernal machines posted:there's a real good chance it will never boot and you'll have a $45 paperweight because the battery discharged too far while in storage and the firmware doesn't have the fix that will allow it to charge a discharged battery It's fulfilled by Amazon, so that should be too risky right? Maximo Roboto posted:Now if it was a Touchpad, on the other hand Nah, I already bought one of those during the original fire sale.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 01:21 |
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if theres a way to develop and then sideload apps onto it that works in tyool 2017 then i would support you purchasing it and turning it into the yoslet
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Q_res posted:It's fulfilled by Amazon, so that should be too risky right? my touchpad finally got a mix of busted fs for webos and an android build that zapped the battery to the point I have to muck with week long charging to fix. I finally gave up and bought a Black Friday kindle to tinker on but that touchpad was probably the best tech purchase I've ever made
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Q_res posted:It's fulfilled by Amazon, so that should be too risky right? well you could keep returning them until you get one that turns on, but this was already an issue a couple years ago. i wouldn't expect them to have improved any, sitting unsold, all that time.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 02:11 |
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Fine, buzzkill...
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 02:26 |
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i'll save you money and send you a broken piece of poo poo for $40
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 12:52 |
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i'll mail you an actual poo poo, for only the cost of shipping
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atomicthumbs posted:i'll save you money and send you a broken piece of poo poo for $40
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 14:21 |
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what was the phone or tablet that was totally bricked once the battery was discharged was that a surface or a BBRY
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power botton posted:what was the phone or tablet that was totally bricked once the battery was discharged was that a surface or a BBRY blackberry playbook. early surfaces had an issue with batteries that got damaged more by the batteries being run flat then most are, but they wouldn't be bricks they'd just have terrible battery life after.
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power botton posted:what was the phone or tablet that was totally bricked once the battery was discharged was that a surface or a BBRY a very expensive UMPC called the Oquo or something had that I remember
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"shouldn't we compose the background so the time is pleasingly centered in it?" "nah"
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look at that spacebar goddamn it's like 2003 never ended
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