http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/blackberry/10237655/BlackBerry-smartphone-maker-is-put-up-for-sale.html

 

The commentators seem to think Blackberry's had it.

 

Oh well, I've had two years out of the Playbook.

 

I just hope, that whatever happens, some semblance of support remains for existibg usings, even if that means doing a root job and switching OS.

 

Nick

 

 

I thought RIM were a British company. :think:

I thought RIM were a British company. :think:

No, Canadia. They're currently tyring to secure RIM jobs :rofl:

Stirred up a lot of bad feeling when they pulled back from offering the playbook BB10 upgrade.

 

But even before that they cocked up their core enterprise customers by making cack products that relied on Gov certification. Loads of people used BB for business but most people hated them.

 

I can see them selling the intellectual property but I can't see anyone wanting to buy the company as a going concern. If the Chinese buy them the Governments will drop BBs faster than a hot poo.

 

Samsung is already getting some gov certs with their KNOX tech.

And the silly charges for bbserver and the BBC tax on business plans killed it for most businesses.

My primary role is that of a messaging architect and from a commercial point of view, BB have killed their own market aside from the BB server being an absolute pig, it's incredibly hard to justify to most companies why they need to have BB over Android/Windows Mobile/iphones or even BYOD when the functionality for push mail and basic handset management is built into Exchange server by default negating the need for any extra licences bearing in mind that BB is licensed per user/mailbox that you activate as well as a server licence on top, with a limit of 2000 users per blackberry server add on that a total incompatibility between Blackberry7/BES5 & BB10/BES10 they've pretty much signed their own death warrant. 

The good thing about BB and having a BES is the encryption from the server to the handset.

 

Which is why they don't (not sure if that's still the case) work in some countries as the local government can't look into what's being transferred over the air.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/blackberry/10237655/BlackBerry-smartphone-maker-is-put-up-for-sale.html

 

The commentators seem to think Blackberry's had it.

 

Oh well, I've had two years out of the Playbook.

 

I just hope, that whatever happens, some semblance of support remains for existibg usings, even if that means doing a root job and switching OS.

 

Nick

 

Had just over a year out of mine and works fine, was disappointed that BB10 was going to be offered but it still does what I want it to do - email, link to my BB phone and internet. Have sideloaded a few Android apps and they work fine.

The good thing about BB and having a BES is the encryption from the server to the handset.

 

Which is why they don't (not sure if that's still the case) work in some countries as the local government can't look into what's being transferred over the air.

 

The end to end encryption was the big seller for government use. BB7 has all the certs for use in Government to quite high levels. I recall it was India that wanted BB to put in a back door for them but I think they refused.

 

but it has always been a **** to use for users and administrators plus expensive to run.

 

End user want the ease of use they've had with their own smartphones and BB took too long to come up with BB10. BYOD doesn't work in Government but the other manufacturers, Apple initially and more recently Samsung have woken up to the big pork barrel of money that government mobile comms represents.

 

Samsung's KNOX stuff is more suited to Government than Apple, which gave a grudging access to its API. Other Android stuff is nowhere near getting let loose near high assurance networks.

Edited 15 August, 201312 yr by Aspman

Hi, I recently chnaged job.  I had an iPhone 4S and a iPad from my old job and was given a Blackberrie with the new job.  It is useless compared with the iPhone.  Hope this news means that my employer will move to Apple.  Hopefully not Android as it is unreliable and very unsecure.

Edited 15 August, 201312 yr by CitigoAli