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You know things are bad when you have to roll out your CEO every once in a while to remind people you are still around.

To our loyal (current and former) BlackBerry users:

BlackBerry is driven by an urgent, obsessive focus on what matters: you. When we lose sight of what you want and you need, we lose you. It’s tempting in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market to change for the sake of change – to mimic what’s trendy and match the industry-standard, kitchen-sink approach of trying to be all things to all people. But there’s also something to be said for the classic adage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
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Ya, its broke, and we are now officially Blackberry free at my company. Samsung Galaxy S5 is our new standard, and people are soooo happy with the change... not that the bar was very high from the Blackberry 9900s we had as our previous standard.
 
Heh. For a second I thought I was reading a quote from IBM/Lenovo.

Yea. But Blackberry. Honestly, I feel as though it isn't their H/W design so much as it is the horrible pile of OS crap they have going.
 
What I gathered from reading that.

"We still don't understand why everyone is abandoning our phones in droves, People clearly don't know what is good for them".
 
JohnRico said:
Yea. But Blackberry. Honestly, I feel as though it isn't their H/W design so much as it is the horrible pile of OS crap they have going.
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This. I really miss my blackberry's keyboard. It's the only thing I miss though....
 
Blackberry doesn't want to evolve and because of this, they will continue to lose market share.
 
Wow, I thought that disaster of a tablet they rolled out in 2010 or 2011 would have finished them off. I worked for a company that tried to push them onto clients and they knew only one word: "iPad". No fruit on the back, no want.

I currently have a Blackberry Curve plugged in my storage room as an "emergency 911" phone. About all it is good for now...
 
I really like their new OS, BB10. Battery life is outstanding and its much more secure than Android or iOS. You guys should check out their latest phone, the Passport.
 
JohnRico said:
Heh. For a second I thought I was reading a quote from IBM/Lenovo.

Yea. But Blackberry. Honestly, I feel as though it isn't their H/W design so much as it is the horrible pile of OS crap they have going.
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lmao you have clearly never used a Blackberry 10 devices.

The BB10 OS is the best thing about the current phones.

But i'm not expecting much from the posters here this is an american site.

And the only thing you guys care about is samsung and apple.
 
But there’s also something to be said for the classic adage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it..
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So losing most of your market share, company's almost bankrupt, and he still doesn't think it's broke?

No wonder they keep failing....


I still have one person on a blackberry, but it's setup to use active sync.
I don't care what flavor fruit they want to use, as long as it works with active sync, it's fine.
 
Makaveli@BETA said:
lmao you have clearly never used a Blackberry 10 devices.

The BB10 OS is the best thing about the current phones.

But i'm not expecting much from the posters here this is an american site.

And the only thing you guys care about is samsung and apple.
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It really hurts that the world has moved on right...
 
PantherBlitz said:
I really like their new OS, BB10. Battery life is outstanding and its much more secure than Android or iOS. You guys should check out their latest phone, the Passport.
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Doesn't matter if there OS is better, or even if they had more free apps, I still don't see people switching back to Blackberries.

Too many people have a negative view of Blackberry, even worse than their view of Windows phone. You can argue all you want about all the great features (like Windows phone), but most the iBots will stick to Apple, and almost everyone else will buy Android.
 
PantherBlitz said:
I really like their new OS, BB10. Battery life is outstanding and its much more secure than Android or iOS. You guys should check out their latest phone, the Passport.
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Security through obscurity.

I think I'll pass, but enjoy.
 
The BES platform is the best thing ever though for a corporate environment where people want email on their phones. It's too bad most companies have gone to BYOD which is an IT nightmare to manage but cheaper since companies don't have to give phones or pay for service contracts.
 
Red Squirrel said:
The BES platform is the best thing ever though for a corporate environment where people want email on their phones.
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Maybe it was 10 years ago, but Exchange plays very nicely with modern iOS and Android phones - No additional software required.
 
I still use my Blackberry Playbook tablet. It never connects to the internet anymore and the only time it gets used anymore is in the bathroom to play solitaire (the card game you croutons). :D
 
The passport looks amazing.... I really miss having a keyboard....

But BB should have gone android a long time ago.
 
TeeJayHoward said:
Maybe it was 10 years ago, but Exchange plays very nicely with modern iOS and Android phones - No additional software required.
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Hmm without having to forward to a pop3 account? Was not aware.

DustMite said:
I still use my Blackberry Playbook tablet. It never connects to the internet anymore and the only time it gets used anymore is in the bathroom to play solitaire (the card game you croutons). :D
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I have one too but the wifi on it sucked so much I gave up on it. I should do a bend test video with it. :D Though I should power it up and see if an update happened to fix it. Doubt it though.
 
Blackberry is dead. They are just prolonging their death gurgle.

They were great corporate devices, but they were stagnant for too long. By the time 10 came out, it was way too late. Nice devices, but they just can't beat the competition. And, people already dumped them and moved on. It'd be near impossible to get those customers back.
 
Kim Kardashian is a big fan of blackberry she said on E! that she buys them all up on ebay because they might be extinct one day. She even uses it beside her new shiny iphone 6

With her little brain i am curious to know how much stock she owns in this company
 
Makaveli@BETA said:
lmao you have clearly never used a Blackberry 10 devices.

The BB10 OS is the best thing about the current phones.

But i'm not expecting much from the posters here this is an american site.

And the only thing you guys care about is samsung and apple.
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While OS 10 is MUCH better than previous versions, it's still nowhere near as nice as iOS or Android. The app selection still sucks ass.

Source: I use each OS daily.
 
/usr/home said:
While OS 10 is MUCH better than previous versions, it's still nowhere near as nice as iOS or Android. The app selection still sucks ass.

Source: I use each OS daily.
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You are gonna have to expand on your definition of nice cause that is very subjective.

Same goes for application. I may not use all the apps you do so that may not be a problem for all. With access to google play store apps and amazon apps the gap isn't as big as it use to be.
 
the-one1 said:
BES. One more server to manage and pay for. :(

IMO Active Sync > BES
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We tried that in our corporate environment and we didn't think so at all.

All our old berry's are still on Bes 5. BB10 phones on Bes 10 and all our Iphones are on mobile iron. Andriod phones are not allowed in our environment because they are not secure enough. And when we last evaluated Knox in 2012 it was a joke.

With Bes12 coming out we will be able to manage all our devices from that and will be able to get rid of mobile iron and will phase out the bes 5 server. And we may only allow the andriods phone if they are sitting behind the Bes12 server but that is something that will need to be tested.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Hmm without having to forward to a pop3 account? Was not aware.
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Here's how Android and iPhones work with exchange:


  • Install Exchange onto your domain.
  • Do the appropriate web forwarding to your Client Access server.
  • Make sure all your Exchange DNS entries are correct.
  • Go to your phone, select "Exchange" for email type, put in your email address and password.
  • Send yourself an email.
  • Notice your phone email alert goes off between 1 and 10 seconds from when you hit send depending on latency.
  • No further configuration required, especially not having to setup some retarded BB server.

Exchange can even remote wipe phones associated with it (unless rooted and this functionality is disabled). Who the heck uses a pop server in the last 4 years at least?
 
Makaveli@BETA said:
The world does not = America!
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In this case yes it does...being in denial doesn't help you case. RIM is on its last legs without extreme intervention like being bought out. And touting an outdated mobile OS with few apps and miniscule market share means anybody with a brain can see the writing on the wall.
 
-Dragon- said:
Here's how Android and iPhones work with exchange:


  • Install Exchange onto your domain.
  • Do the appropriate web forwarding to your Client Access server.
  • Make sure all your Exchange DNS entries are correct.
  • Go to your phone, select "Exchange" for email type, put in your email address and password.
  • Send yourself an email.
  • Notice your phone email alert goes off between 1 and 10 seconds from when you hit send depending on latency.
  • No further configuration required, especially not having to setup some retarded BB server.

Exchange can even remote wipe phones associated with it (unless rooted and this functionality is disabled). Who the heck uses a pop server in the last 4 years at least?
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All of this is correct.

However a proper MDM solution tends to be more robust and works better in mixed device environment.
 
pcjunkie said:
In this case yes it does...being in denial doesn't help you case. RIM is on its last legs without extreme intervention like being bought out. And touting an outdated mobile OS with few apps and miniscule market share means anybody with a brain can see the writing on the wall.
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I'm not in denial I'm fully aware of the situation I live in Canada, you have never even used a BB10 phone so why should I even take you seriously?
 
Makaveli@BETA said:
I'm not in denial I'm fully aware of the situation I live in Canada, you have never even used a BB10 phone so why should I even take you seriously?
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Anybody could have guessed you live in Canada by your posts. I work for an ISP who also does back-end support for a cellular company so yes I've seen/used the BB10. Right now I use a Galaxy S5 and there is no comparison. I've also administered BES servers and had to use RIM support which was the most arrogant and least helpful company we've ever dealt with. Good riddance I say. Try and look past the your obvious dis-likeness for the US and realize it wasn't our fault RIM went sour and couldn't keep up with the times...
 
Protoform-X said:
Not since 2010 or so. Been living under a rock, eh? ;)
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TBH I have not been in the sysadmin scene for a few years now, so did not realize there was a replacement product out now. So it works pretty much like BES but it's by Microsoft then? That's good to know, if ever I get back in the scene. I just know when I was they started implementing BYOD and it was a real pain having to individually manage all these phones that were all different.

-Dragon- said:
Here's how Android and iPhones work with exchange:


  • Install Exchange onto your domain.
  • Do the appropriate web forwarding to your Client Access server.
  • Make sure all your Exchange DNS entries are correct.
  • Go to your phone, select "Exchange" for email type, put in your email address and password.
  • Send yourself an email.
  • Notice your phone email alert goes off between 1 and 10 seconds from when you hit send depending on latency.
  • No further configuration required, especially not having to setup some retarded BB server.

Exchange can even remote wipe phones associated with it (unless rooted and this functionality is disabled). Who the heck uses a pop server in the last 4 years at least?
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How does this work off the network though? The big thing with BES is that it works anywhere without having to setup any kind of VPN client on the phone, or worse, having to port forward a public facing IP to the internal exchange server. It does sound like they did quite a lot of changes though because they did not have any of that when I was a server tech. This would have been mostly server 2003. Guessing they got patches?

On the other hand for BES to work properly I think all data went through THEIR network, and it required to pay for an actual BES service. So that's kinda iffy from a privacy point of view. Interestingly Obama had a Blackberry for a while, not sure what he's sporting now. Maybe it's still the same Blackberry because it's so old it can't be hacked. :p
 
And people with a coma in an iron lung are technically alive as well.
What's their point?
 
When even governments who have been loyal to BB for well over a decade are dumping them for anything but bb its dead.
 
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