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flakeloaf posted:you don't need to make a better product you just need more people willing to steal and copy it lotus 123 is a great analog for blackberry. revolutionary when it came out, superceded by vastly superior clones
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Jul 11, 2014 06:32
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mishaq posted:i have that poo poo bookmarked and send it to people all the time (https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/) this turned out to be a hoax
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Jul 17, 2014 04:38
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i very briefly worked at a firm where they refused to actually fire people they would just transfer you to a non-job with no duties and a cubicle far away from your old friends and coworkers. then they waited for some combination of shame and boredom to drive you out of the firm they ended up with hundreds of deliberately-"forgotten" employees who just refused to leave. after that they moved to a different "rightsizing" mechanism which was even crazier but that's another story
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Jul 17, 2014 04:40
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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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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/22/blackberry-passport-price/ the iphone 6+ is $750 the galaxy note 4 is $750 both are manufactured with the greatest economies of scale what do you think a low-production, almost engineering sample, phone is gonna be like when it's $250 less than the competitors? build quality is gonna be laughable. like $99 android tablet laughable
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Sep 22, 2014 23:13
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in a way i admire their devotion to the kitchener-waterloo area but it's impossible not to laugh at this bullshit quote:Through Quantum Valley Investments Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, founders of the “Smart Phone” industry, have been focusing on the commercialization of breakthrough technologies in Quantum Information Science. By doing so they are continuing to further their shared vision toward the development of the “Quantum Valley” in the Waterloo Region of Canada.
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Nov 22, 2014 17:11
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after bbry starts with the mass layoffs k-w will go back to being a sleepy university town only with lots of homeless software "engineers"
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Nov 22, 2014 17:11
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uncurable mlady posted:jesus its not even a touchscreen phone it has a touch screen but none of the five buyers have figured it out yet
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Dec 20, 2014 05:27
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The Management posted:I'm sure the kernel is fine. figuring out that user space has wedged itself into a condition it will never recover from is very difficult to do, so the kernel doesn't know the system needs a reboot. is this is a metaphor for blackberry the corporation
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Dec 21, 2014 16:04
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PleasureKevin posted:
just the browser.
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Jan 24, 2015 04:53
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minivanmegafun posted:uh i was a tourist in nyc once a trip to staten island is honestly the best tourist thing in nyc. ride the ferry out for free, drink one dollar beers, observe the lower manhattan skyline, and take photos of the statue of liberty. it can't be beat. unfortunately, it's mandatory to get off on staten island briefly. you can't ride the same ferry boat both ways.
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Feb 12, 2015 06:55
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The Management posted:fishmech doesn't have a sense of scale, he only cares about being technically correct. I hope this is not a new revelation to any of you manhattan has great changes in elevation, but it is carefully graded pedestrians climb mild grades for miles to reach high points. it's like switchbacks without photo opportunities 
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Feb 12, 2015 06:56
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:my boss loved, loved, loved to send the goddamn alerts. basically you'd alert someone (i don't remember what the BB term for it was) and the blackberry would ring until you either canceled it or hit the walkie-talkie button. how long did you last at this job
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Feb 12, 2015 20:14
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THC posted:Saw a guy using a Passport in the elevator of my new condo. are you both in toronto
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Apr 1, 2015 06:08
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The Management posted:I was in Canada once, it was okay clearly you visited in summer
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Apr 1, 2015 15:46
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theflyingexecutive posted:lol could you imagine if us reps all had to drive f150s? in michigan they basically have to. maybe not an f-150, but something domestic. this is a provincial legislator in ontario complaining about being forced to use phones designed by blackberry in ontario
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May 10, 2015 19:30
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Thanks Ants posted:lol who the gently caress are sybase sybase were the original authors of microsoft sql the fact that you have never heard of them, but ms sql is an industry leader, should tell you everything you need to know about sybase sales and marketing.
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May 23, 2015 21:02
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Bonzo posted:And was then sold to SAP that was pretty much the best possible outcome for sybase
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May 23, 2015 21:03
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LastInLine posted:like somehow 2b in dollar bills were worth less because it was them who had it this is exactly what it means when the stock market values you at less than your assets management is so stupid that shareholders don't think the firm can even be liquidated successfully
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May 26, 2015 16:35
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Nintendo Kid posted:the original iphone was simply poo poo tbqh the original iphone was an incredibly cool tech demo i have nfc why they thought they could make it a product
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Jun 28, 2015 18:46
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The Kins posted:reuters is reporting that blackberry is rumored to be considering throwing its metaphorical hands up, going "gently caress it" and just flat-out releasing an android so i can definitely imagine a world where BB builds a business on managing android/ios devices. that's a pretty crowded market, but BB already has a lot of advantages over the incumbents. what i don't get at all is why they would want to continue to make hardware.
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Jun 28, 2015 18:47
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Mr. Apollo posted:http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/17/2642492/blackberry-playbook-cargo-truck-stolen-indiana this is the best thing that could have happened the insurance payout is much more valuable than the retail sales
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Jul 3, 2015 18:39
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There Will Be Penalty posted:what i really want is a hardware slider phone running ios with a keyboard more like my old treo 680. i texted like a mofo on that thing. you're never going to get this because it is objectively stupid. people can operate the ios software keyboard as fast as the crappy shrunken ones they used to put in phones. there is no advantage to the hardware keyboard. it was necessary once upon a time because phone chips were not fast enough to work with multitouch input and infer intent. that time is past. i suspect blackberry's remaining consumer business is slackjawed yokels who want a hardware keyboard more than they care about whether their smartphone actually works
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Aug 22, 2015 17:02
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since the announcement is dated sept 28 i guess that makes "paopi" the winning egyptian month
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Sep 29, 2016 20:22
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fishmech posted:no they did not, because ios has basically nothing to do with os x ios is just embedded osx it's true that they don't derive their profits from selling the software, but you can't dispute that ios is, in fact, an osx derivative.
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Dec 12, 2016 00:00
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FMguru posted:apple made $53.4 bn in profit last year almost entirely by selling devices running some version of osx (mac, iphone, ipad, watch, tv) those devices just as easily could have been running linux or solaris or whatever. (apple very nearly licensed solaris before the NeXT purchase) it's a little weird that apple retains their own proprietary unix
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Dec 12, 2016 00:00
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fishmech posted:can you run os x applications on it without complicated compatibility layers? answer: no you could, if apple let you. which they will not. there is no technological reason you couldn't. it's an osx kernel with an osx userspace running on an osx filesystem
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Dec 12, 2016 00:53
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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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Feb 17, 2017 06:17
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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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Feb 17, 2017 06:20
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Tayter Swift posted:This isn't Blackberry trying to recapture a market. This device is a goodbye to their faithful; a chance to keep their beloved keyboards and move to a new platform. This their last device, that's what they've said. The name will live on but not actual Blackberries as we have known them. a "thank you," a solid "gently caress you," whatever why split hairs
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Feb 26, 2017 02:26
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