Gregory's Server@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.
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@nus @recurve 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. |
@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.