Pinterest Mom posted:

infernal machines posted:

olds and middle managers too out of touch to realize how desperately uncool it makes them, while still caring about looking cool

Thanks Ants posted:

lmao

http://crackberry.com/some-popular-third-party-blackberry-10-apps-need-improve-their-security

whod have thought that people who make bad decisions about what platform to write apps for also make bad decisions when writing the apps?

sund posted:

An otherwise respectable lady in front of me at the grocery store had one of those square blackberry things. When I walked up it smelled like she had just farted. Shortly afterwards she discovered she didn't have her wallet and had to put her food back.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

i remember several years ago when i was workin at the school district, the district administration was completely in love with blackberry. got the blackberry enterprise server, every school principal and district department head (and tech department cj, ugh) was issued one.

they couldn't get enough of the walkie-talkie. i think it was like a drug for them. i think every time they heard that sending chirp they got a semi because they loving loved it.


i remember at one time the choir teacher had quietly asked me about whether it was technically feasible to jam cell phone signals - 'of course i wouldn't ask you to do it, i'd just come in over the weekend and get up on the ladder and hide it in the ceiling' - and i had to tell him that, aside from it being incredibly illegal, the district bigwigs were so in love with their blackberries that they were seriously considering installing cell phone repeaters in parts of the building where they couldn't get service, so finding a sudden dead zone might tip them off. that was an amusing conversation though.



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. the default tone was this nerve-jangling super-loud ringtone and it always put me on edge and finally i wised up and just changed the ringtone to something less urgent.




i think they only ditched the blackberries a couple years ago. i remember visiting them and the network admin had a big box full of blackberries waiting to be recycled or something.




anyway, that's my story. thanks for reading and 'god bless'

Boxturret posted:

who are you and what did you do with fishmech

Mr. Apollo posted:

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/03/blackberry-sales-nowhere-close-morgan/

BlackBerry Ltd. managed to sell only 8,000 units of the Classic and Passport

qirex posted:

rim.jobs doesn't even resolve anymore

minivanmegafun posted:

I think it's been quite a while since that domain name resolved

A Pinball Wizard posted:

quote:

Our financial viability is no longer in question. We're now turning our attention to revenue stabilization," BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen said on a conference call.

quote:

"Chen and his team are one of the better management teams out there," said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis. "But they have a lot of selling and a lot of execution to do."

quote:

Excluding one-time items, quarterly profit was $20 million, or 4 cents a share. Analysts, on average, looked for a loss of 4 cents a share.

Revenue, however, slid to $660 million from $793 million, well below estimates of $786.4 million.

quote:

BlackBerry reported positive cash flow of $76 million in the quarter, and its cash position rose to $3.27 billion in the fourth quarter, from $3.1 billion in the third quarter.

Mr. Apollo posted:

i got invited to a discussion panel with the co-coes (lizardlips and ballsilly) as well as the authors of that book about how bb underestimated the iphone. free lunch and open bar so why not.

Kenny Logins posted:

should of been called the stockholm

ahmeni posted:

nokia also makes (made??) really solid cell network poo poo but huawei probably has crushed them into he ground by now

Cold on a Cob posted:

lmao

Dolomite posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlO8KMv7Bx4

mishaq posted:

someone post the video of chen awkwardly "unveiling" the priv to that lady and not even knowing what it stood for

The Management posted:

this just confirms my suspicions that blackberry is intentionally trying to lose money (but not be too obvious about it) as a roundabout means of transferring assets from shareholders to creditors

The Management posted:

who do you think put Chen in charge? they're using real estate holdings and their patent portfolio to borrow money for continued operations. when they declare bankruptcy they will have literally nothing because the lenders will own all of those things.

Mr. Nice! posted:

because that cash is literally their last lifeblood. the creditors are going to get it, too.

ahmeni posted:

i wonder how many canadian pensioners are gonna get hosed this time

buttcrackmenace posted:

the comments on that article generated Many Hearty Lols from me

quote:

Got one today at Best Buy in California (16GB $199) and think it's a cool device. I have a 32GB Xoom WiFi, 32GB HP Touchpad ($150 Firesale) and Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0. Enjoy ALL of them for what they bring to the table. Being cornered into one device is Ignorant. I also have a 32GB iPod Touch (3rd Gen) which I gave to my Daughter after I got my Sammy Galaxy Player 5.0 (it DESTROYS)the iPod Touch. I will then gie my Mom my 32GB Zune HD.

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.

flakeloaf posted:

it'll be like undercover boss except without medical bankruptcy or crushing racial inequality, and at the end of every episode all of the employees get blacksberry instead of cash or vacations

Pinterest Mom posted:

lmao

infernal machines posted:

i've been saying that for years. they willingly give out their encryption keys to any government that asks. the only thing your BB communication is secure from is opportunistic non-state actors

that in itself isn't a bad thing, at least your phone won't get mitm'd on some airport cafe hotspot, but touting it as unbreakable security is a bit much. not to mention bby has access to all of your communications since everything is routed through them, any compromise of their network (see nortel and chinese hackers having access for a decade) means every bby customer is compromised

Pinterest Mom posted:

the blackberry priv

because you only get 4/7 of privacy

surebet posted:

gonna have to check out the priv to see if it can take the smart card reader rim decided to murder a few years back

i'm assuming it won't

help i'm stuck in bb10 limbo forever

Bonzo posted:

We are PRIV by BlackBerry, AMA


https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3vba1a/we_are_priv_by_blackberry_ama/

Bonzo posted:

Just in time for holiday shopping

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-ipads-tablets/kitchener-waterloo/16-gb-balckberrry-playbook-unopened/1125586119?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

I'm glad its up to a corporation to figure out who is a criminal now

Pinterest Mom posted:

New meaning of blackberry deathwatch: watching for people who die in blackberry cars