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Aldo Bruno

@rodhilton

#Musk is peak white privilege and toxic masculinity.
#tesla is the Blackberry of EV’s, the market has finally realized this fact.
#spacex was never him. My guess is they would be further along in development without him.
#neurolink is a prime reason you should never add content to twitter.

As Jimi Hendrix said “fall mountains fall, just don’t fall on me.”
Enjoying his very public decent.

25 Dec 2022 at 18:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on newsie.social
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Hey, Blackberry wasn't nearly that bad :blobcatwinktongue:
They never tried to monopolize the smartphone market with anything near the aggression of modern day Google and Apple!!
@CiaoBruno @rodhilton
@tofugolem

25 Dec 2022 at 20:29 | Open on mstdn.social
Aldo Bruno
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@CiaoBruno :crying_cat_2:
I feel nostalgia now. Unless you use a swipe keyboard effectively, nothing's going to replace the perfect tactile feel of that company's keyboards @tofugolem

25 Dec 2022 at 20:39 | Open on mstdn.social
Brace of Hounds

@nus @tofugolem
They had the world by the short hairs, but then smugly sat on their hands, and snoozed. The first sign of their impending doom, for me, was in about 2008 - receiving HTML-formatted email and having to weed through the raw code to find the actual message text buried in it. The native BB email client was garbage. Meanwhile, my wifi-only iPAQ was doing a perfect job with HTML, and a few other things that my BB couldn't do. Plus, it had a colour screen.

25 Dec 2022 at 20:42 | Open on mindly.social
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@recurve @tofugolem I forget Blackberry history goes all the way back to pre color screens! I'd love to have every one of those devices now.

Say what you will, but I don't think they were ever universally terrible.

25 Dec 2022 at 21:15 | Open on mstdn.social
Tofu Golem

@nus @recurve
There's an important tech lesson there.

One of the big selling points of Blackberry was the encryption. They promised that only the sender and receiver would know what was sent, them it was discovered that they were giving those messages to any government that asked.

Google and Apple should take note about what happens when you make promises about data privacy and don't keep it.

25 Dec 2022 at 23:52 | Open on mastodon.lol
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