Bonzo posted:

You mean like this? http://gizmodo.com/5902609/the-only-us-blackberry-store-might-be-the-saddest-place-on-earth

quote:

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

Blackula69 posted:

i was having dinner with all the business journalists in ottawa the other day (there's like 8 of them) and they were all discussing how much they loved their blackberries and would never switch, then asked me what i use. i said "an iphone" and one or two of them were visibly displeased

it's a weird canadian thing

Cocoa Crispies posted:

the blackberry classic is heavier than the iPhone 6+ and the sarnsung galaxy s 5 note 4 edge

quote:

Virtually every one of the 1 million Storm phones shipped in 2008 needed replacing, Verizon’s chief marketing officer, John Stratton, told Mr. Balsillie. Many of the replacements were being returned as well. Storm was a complete failure, and Mr. Stratton wanted RIM to pay.
...
Only Mr. Lazaridis didn’t regard Storm as a failure. To him, it was RIM’s first crack at a new technology.

Nagato posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2xmyLE528

feels so... right

Bonzo posted:

When the Z10 was released, the city but up banners everywhere and local businesses had "YOU DID IT BLACKBERRY!" on their signs.

buttcrackmenace posted:

spotted in the wild



(gloves b/c it is evidence)

aaag fixed link

also : carrying a BB Passport does not render you immune from bullets

mishaq posted:

lol forever at this video

http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=713580

infernal machines posted:

what the gently caress is this poo poo?


Yessss!

Nintendo Kid posted:

Mrs. Simpkins' junior year Waterloo High newspaper team assisted on the latest Blackberry campaign

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

minivanmegafun posted:

I'm the unreadable overlay text

FMguru posted:

that book about the rise and fall of blackberry (losing the signal) had a lot about the playbook and what a shitshow it was. sillyballs gave absolutely no indication to anyone inside rim what it was supposed to be used for or who it was for so his marketing team was literally staring at an empty whiteboard four weeks before launch day

A Pinball Wizard posted:

In 1997, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The next year, it turned a profit of over $300 million. How was this possible? They admitted to themselves that their products needed to change radically.

“You know what’s wrong with this company?” said Steve Jobs at the time. “The products suck.” The company went on the release the iMac, and later, iPods, iPads, and iPhones. Today it is the most valuable company in the world.

Can this happen for BlackBerry? It’s more possible than you think.

Last month the company released its most innovative product in years: the BlackBerry Priv. This new phone solves nearly every issue that contributed to the firm’s epic collapse, namely a lack of apps, a clunky user interface, and outdated hardware. BlackBerry may have found its version of the iPhone in one product.

Thanks Ants posted:

i cannot get over how loving terrible the branding is. full caps all over the place using a font that was a default in office 97.