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Faxanadu on 30 July 2014
NiKKoM said:
Faxanadu said:

Ever heard of Blackberries? Ever heard of UMTS cards for Laptops? The invention of smartphones did not do much to improve work efficiency of professionals.

Blackberries are smartphones aren't they? The work efficiency has improved a lot with the rise of the smartphone. the speed advantage of not having to be at your desktop to read an email is insane.. the communcation between you and a client is much faster nowadays.. even between co-workers it has been improved.. a storage manager can recieve the orders directly on the floor on his smartphone and doesn't need to go back to his office to check his mail..

More mail is opened on mobile then on a desktop



Sure depending were you work, it might not have been a improvement.. but for a lot of industries it did..


Yes, you can say Blackberries are smartphones. They existed before the iPhone though. having an iPhone compared to a blackberry does not improve work efficiency. When technologie get adopted is a different topic. I am using blackberries since 2005 and a UMTS card since 2007. You can open your laptop in Cabs, Trains, Airplanes, anywhere and work. People who work in high-pressure environments seldom drive their own car.

Therefore, no real changes in work efficiency since the introduction of BB/UMTS Laptops. Depending on adoption of course.



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NiKKoM on 30 July 2014
Faxanadu said:

Therefore, no real changes in work efficiency since the introduction of BB/UMTS Laptops. Depending on adoption of course.

I think smartphones brought access to mobile internet for a lot more employees.. Businesswise BB it's a more expensive package.. so not every employee had access to it.. I think that has changed a lot.



 

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famousringo on 30 July 2014
Faxanadu said:


There are still significant numbers of professional services firms using Blackbery. My company does. The UI is fine. Please dont claim things that are incorrect.


Of course Blackberry's UI is fine. That's why its customer satisfaction is so high, its phone ASP is higher than ever, and everybody else is scrambling to integrate trackballs on their phones. I'm sure all your fellow employees love their Blackberries and your company isn't just sticking with them because your IT department is inflexible, controlling, and slow to adapt.

"Fine" isn't good enough. If it were, Blackberry shipments would be somewhere above rounding error territory.



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MikeRox on 30 July 2014
Faxanadu said:

Yes, you can say Blackberries are smartphones. They existed before the iPhone though. having an iPhone compared to a blackberry does not improve work efficiency. When technologie get adopted is a different topic. I am using blackberries since 2005 and a UMTS card since 2007. You can open your laptop in Cabs, Trains, Airplanes, anywhere and work. People who work in high-pressure environments seldom drive their own car.

Therefore, no real changes in work efficiency since the introduction of BB/UMTS Laptops. Depending on adoption of course.


Smartphones existed before iPhone.  iPhone was just a massive disruptor to the market that popularised them with mainstream consumers.



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Mr Khan on 30 July 2014

So they're 30 years behind the console gaming industry, then

(seriously, this dialogue was what went on 30-31 years ago) Noname's joke about an apple seal of quality is likely to hit closer to home than people imagine.



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Avro1958 on 31 July 2014
famousringo said:
Faxanadu said:


There are still significant numbers of professional services firms using Blackbery. My company does. The UI is fine. Please dont claim things that are incorrect.


Of course Blackberry's UI is fine. That's why its customer satisfaction is so high, its phone ASP is higher than ever, and everybody else is scrambling to integrate trackballs on their phones. I'm sure all your fellow employees love their Blackberries and your company isn't just sticking with them because your IT department is inflexible, controlling, and slow to adapt.

"Fine" isn't good enough. If it were, Blackberry shipments would be somewhere above rounding error territory.

 

headache to maintain! People are also wanting to go back to their Blackberries because they actually miss the security the platform provides. Apple as about as far from a secure mobile platform as one can get! They only thing BB has against it Apps... The amazon appstore will take care of that by bringing netflix and other popular apps over! I have netflix on my phone now and have had it for a year and it works great! 

 

Blackberry is also going to be launching BES cloud services so companies will not have to maintain their own services. They are also making a huge push into the medical industry as it's platform provides the best security hands down! Apple can't touch it and Samsung's Knox is nothing compared to the the security that is baked into BB10 (QNX) platform from the very ground up! Something has to be said about that rather than relying on a addon.  

 

I know Blackberry is not as popular as they once were, they made mistakes and it has cost them! They however don't need push Apple like numbers to be successful. I just laugh at all the people that right off the OS because they don't have access to 4903859034853 dick and fart apps.