Which Cell Phone do you own?
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Galaxy S3 complete with the Siri ripoff.
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Guys: as you know the screen on my Blackberry Storm 2 is shattered… It still functions (kudos, li'l bastard), but replacing it would cost 100 €... I'm currently looking at a Blackberry 9860... Anyone have one?.. Is it as heavy as a Storm?.. I love the heavy BBs
And I'm not very interested in other phones, but if you know of something decent around 100-150 €, let us know...
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Seul, I respect you're going down with the BB Ship, they're all but out;
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/20/blackberry-confirms-massive-layoffs-reveals-1-billion-loss-in-q2-2014/I've ready Really Bad things about Q10, avoid like the plague;
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Blackberry was fatally disrupted by an upmarket product. Forgive my business strategy geekery but that almost never happens.
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It's amazing really. Blackberry's story will be added to the canon of business school case studies. iPhone came out and they looked at the complexity and cost of the device and couldn't picture how something like this would disrupt them. How did Apple engineer this–how is this device even possible? Beyond the technical challenges, why would carriers let a real browser and the concomitant traffic on their choked networks?
Verizon probably saw the same thing, which is why they passed on iPhone. Well, perhaps that and the demands Apple was placing on the carrier, being unwilling to cede control or compromise customer experience. "You're just the network." No carrier bloatware, no modifications to the OS, no control over the customer experience. They wouldn't accept these terms.
Then when they realized this was a mistake, and watched as AT&T's network boomed with iPhone subscribers, they went to RIM and asked them to make an iPhone killer. RIM tried to do this and failed, which left the door open for the next option on Verizon's list, Google + Motorola = Droid, and now we have the rise of Android (mainly Samsung if we're talking about capturing all the profits BlackBerry left on the table). Palm had a pretty cool solution that never gained traction, Microsoft took too long (their "let's sit back and let's see how this plays out, and then brute force/bully our way in" strategy didn't work this time), and now we have a two horse race. I don't think this is good for consumers. I wish that BlackBerry and Palm had been more successful so that we had a rich array of options to choose from and push each other.
