BlackBerry devices with BB OS and BB 10 will stop connecting on January 4 – Tablets and phones – News

BlackBerry was the first smartphone without a home button and it was considered ridiculous that you had to request your app with gesture and swipe and also had to come back. etc. It was destroyed in the media.

The idea of ​​continuously running 8 apps that you use the most and integrating everything into a HUB so that you can use whatsapp, BBM, Facebook, Messenger,. Twitter, SMS, calls, e-mails all came in a single box was great and you could immediately respond from there without starting the apps. Everything was integrated, even all codecs for video and audio were present on the device without installing an app at all. Privacy was also a standard present, but who wants privacy and they were the first where you could disable and block things. This was all too much for the media too and they just didn’t understand.

Now we don’t know any better and when Apple released its first device without a home button (3-4 years later) the media praised how great this was and it was comparable to what BlackBerry had released with BBOS10. Unfortunately everything in a box and integration is hard to find with both Android and Apple and I miss that enormously when I switched to Android. Fortunately, you can still install the hub from BlackBerry and you can’t do without getting everything on a single box.

They were too early and the market was not ready for a full touch device like the iPhone S4/S5 with a removable battery at the time. The Z10 was still well sold, but could not compete with the media. The developers of BlackBerry are engineers and geeks and thought that a good product with good software would sell itself. BlackBerry QNX made software for Apple in waterloo for Apple carplay, because BBOS10 worked with both Apple and Android apps, only BlackBerry had opted for its own Apps and also Android Apps support.

Now they make software for the car industry, aircraft construction including Boeing, trains, aerospace and security software that has an AI and so on, but hardware no more, although no more smartphones, but other hardware.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Noresponse op 2 januari 2022 12:28]

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