Blackberry continues to struggle

By : Administrator
Published 30th March 2012 |
Read latest comment - 8th April 2012

It seems a long time ago now when everyone was talking about having a blackberry and setting up blackberry solutions for your mobile email, and the iphone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs eye.

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Steve Richardson
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I seen they are now focusing on the corporate customers rather than individuals.I work for quite a large company (30,000 employees) I would say probably about 10,000 of the employees were issued blackberry's as they were handy to check emails, they are cheaper than I phones, however they are now starting to get rid of the blackberry's and issue I phones, simply because they are easier to use and they do every thing a blackberry do plus more!

Personally I don't like them you need fingers like twigs to operate them, my sausage fingers are no good.

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Personally I don't like them you need fingers like twigs to operate them, my sausage fingers are no good.

Blackberries or iphones?

Know the feeling with sausage fingers! Always struggled to text with most phones, but managing a bit better with the iphone. Never used a blackberry but the keyboard seemed quite good looking at other peoples.

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
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Yep I've noticed the decline in Blackberry over the last year.

Countless news stories on the TV radio internet nearly every available medium, declaring how terrible Blackberrys are.

This will sound 100% like a conspiracy theory but I believe that external sources must of been behind the barrage of negative press about blackberry.

Take this as a prime example, when the PS3 meltdown happened last year, yes it was broadcasted everywhere, but nobody declared the end of the PS3 in the same way they did when the Blackberry messenger had a period of down time.

Now my personal preference is actually I-phone but my simple point is why and how did Blackberry receive such negative press over such a short period of time?

SharClar

If you look at mobile phone usage, I think you see why Blackberry is losing share. Phones were used mainly for phone calls, text (SMS) and email e.g requiring a physical keyboard.

The move to social networking and apps on mobile phones is probably the underlying reason why Blackberry is losing. They've made some great products but that's a problem too - they've dwelled on past success rather than thinking about what's next.

Thanks,
Lion

Blackberries or iphones?

Know the feeling with sausage fingers! Always struggled to text with most phones, but managing a bit better with the iphone. Never used a blackberry but the keyboard seemed quite good looking at other peoples.

Blackberries, the keys are so small you cannot type with mashing all the buttons around the button you want to press! lol

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