Quite an old joke.
I do miss my old Blackberry 9900
I miss having a viable "3rd" option.
The rise of the iPhone and Android was a wild time back in the early 2010s.
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It's still shocking that Microsoft just couldn't come up with a decent third option at all. Goes to show that Windows only exists out of pure inertia at this point, and Microsoft is now incapable of building successful consumer products that people love using.
They did, about three times, each time abandoning it before the ecosystem could stabilize.
Admittedly, the last time nobody even wanted to buy in because everyone expected them to drop the OS within two years. Which they promptly did.
They never build something with the attitude "Let's make the best thing for the consumer!"
It's always "Let's make the best thing for the consumer... Buuuut we also need to integrate this fuckery here!"
It's no way to break into a market where you are far behind. You need to put consumer needs first. Period.
The last Microsoft product that actually is good is VS Code. It was build with the end user in mind and quickly took up steam.
In today's climate with so much competition, you can't half ass things, just because "you're a big player". Microsoft refuses to accept this reality.
Windows 11 is the next step in the process of them fucking up big again.
They almost had it with subsystem for Android too!
I had a windows phone. It was really good, it had all the functionality apps, it could run emulators, but it didn’t have the user base. Good compatibility with windows 8/8.1. But people hated those OSs. Microsoft was too late to pick up blackberry’s failing market and too early to capitalize on windows 10s popularity.
I would totally consider a Windows phone if they could actually pull it off.
I only run one hands free Linux system now, but a Linux phone would also be cool. It would have to be compatible with Google Play apps though as I need certain things for work.
Linux phones can already run Android apps and Google Play using WayDroid. You're going to have a problem if anything you use requires it to pass an integrety check, though, like some banking apps have.
Visual Studio Code is quite well liked
IMO MS for consumers and MS for developers are two totally different beasts. Typescript is also a beloved tech.
Good point.
I love my Windows Phone! So much so that I literally still have it in a drawer full of out-of-date tech - it works fine but is no longer compatible with my cell service provider :-/
Nokia, Rim, Palm - so many cool products
A third Option would be bad. Many apps can't manage to build a good App for two platforms, imagine having to support 3. Also Android is so flexible you can build it into pretty much anything.
With a little luck, things like Graphene could be that 3rd option, sort of.
The big problem is Android doesn't require a standard BIOS like PCs ended up with. So hardware drivers have to be developed/released by the hardware vendor (which they generally don't publish them).
i hate that smooth-rectangle has become the standard
stop it with the extra cameras and the beveled edges, i'd give up half my screen space for some real goddamn buttons
Yeah, some blackberry-like devices would be nice.
I really liked the second-hand blackberry I had in the mid 00's. I hope that design with physical buttons and the trackball makes a comeback someday. Though I think people are too accustomed to touch screens to be able to move back to smaller devices at this point.
Ngl, I wonder how I was able to type on my Samsung Galaxy Y.
The device is so small and I wonder how much of it were child-sized hands.
BlackBerrys were the only good thing to come out of Canada, besides Norm Macdonald.
Arch Linux originated in Canada
Does French Canada count? Poutine is delicious.
Disco fries are better in every way.
I respect people's right to have the wrong opinion
Literally never heard of disco fries till now.
Apparently been making disco fries whenever I’m out of curds and I can tell you from experience that, no it’s definitely not better than a proper poutine.
Order a poutine with white truffle aioli if you can. So damn good.
Order a poutine with white truffle aioli if you can. So damn good
Love that classic duo: gravy and mayonnaise
Obama was forced to use a Blackberry while president and he hated it.
"I get the thing, and they're all like, 'Well, Mr. President, for security reasons ... it doesn't take pictures, you can't text, the phone doesn't work, ... you can't play your music on it,'" Obama said during an appearance on The Tonight Show this week. "Basically, it's like, does your three-year-old have one of those play phones?"
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry
Edit: Ugh, I hate the way The Verge totally failed at punctuation.
The quote is about Obama being forced to give up his beloved BlackBerry and move to a secure phone.
That quote is about the replacement phone, not the Blackberry
isn't thrilled with this new phone either
Any secure phone will have the same restrictions - the manufacturer doesn't make much difference in this case
That shit is still going on today.
Only if you actually care to follow it
Oh, I don’t. But sometimes you can’t not see it.
at this point I think we can safely say what the fuck is a blackberry
The opposite of a whiteberry?
answer accepted