RIP - Blackberry - Page 2

jeff061 · 08-02-2012, 12:55 PM

Importance of an app eco-system is overrated. When Android first came out everyone said it would fail because of the lack of apps compared to the iPhone.

People will buy quality phones and if developers are given solid tools and support they will develop the apps. A few hundred thousand is not necessary, really only need the more popular apps to be ported.

Daimyo · 08-02-2012, 01:27 PM

Blackberry used to have the advantage that it was relatively easy to use and they had a huge first mover advantage with executive leader types (my boss still clings to her's). Those things combined to give them a pretty nice edge in business despite having an absolutely horrendous and outdated backend infrastructure that IT departments universally hate. (and really when the enterprise choice was Blackberry or WM5, the Blackberry OS and feature set actually looked pretty good in comparison!)

Once the iPad came out you had those same executive Blackberry champions suddenly getting iOS devices and realizing they were sexier and just as easy to use. At the same time Apple made huge strides on the enterprise side (Exchange support in iOS3/4 + all the management stuff) so you had a nice confluence of IT folks happy ditch BES for anything better pushing a move and decision makers falling in love with iOS (and maybe even Android as well).

While all that was going in the enterprise you also had this huge shift to the consumerization of technology (consumers now drive progress, not business users) which Apple rode to such market dominance that only a big-tent, open source competitor like Android could possibly match.

Not sure what they could have done short of totally changing everything... they were pushing 10 year old tech to the enterprise and didn't start making consumer oriented products until a year or two too late.

Ramzavail · 10-17-2012, 01:05 PM

Off topic question - kinda

but could you use your BBM # to email somebody or could I email from gmail to a BBM#

08-02-2012, 01:27 PM	#52
Daimyo College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Berkeley	Blackberry used to have the advantage that it was relatively easy to use and they had a huge first mover advantage with executive leader types (my boss still clings to her's). Those things combined to give them a pretty nice edge in business despite having an absolutely horrendous and outdated backend infrastructure that IT departments universally hate. (and really when the enterprise choice was Blackberry or WM5, the Blackberry OS and feature set actually looked pretty good in comparison!) Once the iPad came out you had those same executive Blackberry champions suddenly getting iOS devices and realizing they were sexier and just as easy to use. At the same time Apple made huge strides on the enterprise side (Exchange support in iOS3/4 + all the management stuff) so you had a nice confluence of IT folks happy ditch BES for anything better pushing a move and decision makers falling in love with iOS (and maybe even Android as well). While all that was going in the enterprise you also had this huge shift to the consumerization of technology (consumers now drive progress, not business users) which Apple rode to such market dominance that only a big-tent, open source competitor like Android could possibly match. Not sure what they could have done short of totally changing everything... they were pushing 10 year old tech to the enterprise and didn't start making consumer oriented products until a year or two too late. Last edited by Daimyo : 08-02-2012 at 01:29 PM.

10-17-2012, 01:05 PM	#53
Ramzavail College Starter Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Strong Island, NY	Off topic question - kinda but could you use your BBM # to email somebody or could I email from gmail to a BBM#

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