Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ajsadauskas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ajsadauskas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JessTheUnstill</span></a></span> also <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BlackBerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackBerry</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PlayBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlayBook</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tablet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tablet</span></a> was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WiiU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WiiU</span></a>-Effect"</em> in terms of marketing.</p><ul><li>Plus <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIM</span></a> relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally <em>out of touch</em> once <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iPhone</span></a> went mainstream.</li></ul><p>I mean, the hardware was never their problem and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SMS</span></a>-Typists swear by their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BlackberryCurve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackberryCurve</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> but BlackBerry's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/toolchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toolchain</span></a> - just like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SymbianOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SymbianOS</span></a>'s - was just hideous to the point that devs like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> didn't even want to try making <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apps</span></a> for those devices.</p><ul><li>Unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> fucking up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FirefoxOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirefoxOS</span></a> by refusing to sell devices to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>developers</span></a>, by the time RIM & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nokia</span></a> came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere <em>"rounding errors"</em> by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> as it was way cheaper and easier to get <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apps</span></a> developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices. </li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sony</span></a> even released some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Symbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Symbian</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/S60" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>S60</span></a> devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sideload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sideload</span></a> apps (not to mention they didn't had the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OviStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OviStore</span></a> on those either!)...</p>