Sep 28. 2013
Sep 28. 2013
Five – The demise of BlackBerry smartphone pioneer seems final. Who will miss the Canadian company? We all do. Why? For these five reasons.
PC uniformity
The disappearance of BlackBerry means the end for pluralism. The company that brought really usable keyboards to the mobile user, instead of mini-PC keyboards or number pads with repeat option to enter letters. The smartphone maker as of today still hold on with his Q10 and Q5 devices.
Theythe part then, because those two models with hardware QWERTY keyboards are only half of the current BB10-range. The other two smartphones with version 10 of the all-new BlackBerry operating system built entirely touch. Where BlackBerry (formerly RIM) are key expertise apply, for a smart virtual keyboard.
What platform makers Apple and Google also do for their respective mobile operating systems iOS and Android. And what Microsoft, the number three mobile at great distances, also does for Windows Phone. In short, the devices look more and more alike.
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Uitgeïnnoveerd?
Perhaps it is logical that the once deemed indispensable keyboard BlackBerry devices and thus the worst of it. The smartphone is pretty much off. What makes the iPhone 5S of the first iPhone in terms of really fundamental issues of the unit? Faster processor, higher resolution screen, better graphics, more memory. It sounds rather like the recent history of the PC, which has not experienced in recent years. Really earthshaking revolutions
The end of BlackBerry may well be ushering the end of smartphone innovation. Apple seems in recent years mainly with narrow. Google seems to look good for Android. Competition to the iOS And Android powerhouse Samsung seems to specialize in imitating. A practice of phone makers who late Steve Jobs has excoriated. Loudly Although Apple in turn also borrows plays in Android which certain iOS features are concerned.
Maybe Apple’s top designer Jonathan Ive yet something else in store, after the fading of iOS 7. Or perhaps its CEO Tim Cook an innovative vision at the level of its predecessor Steve Jobs. Or should the innovation to come from a lot like Nokia? A mobile pioneer who like BlackBerry has not saved on your own.
Before and after the iPhone. And what next? With the iPhone 5C colors come back, but the shape remains the same.
Via: Cult of Mac
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Platform Duopoly
As it stands now, the smartphone market is likely to happen if the PC market as platforms are concerned the same. A large, widely used operating system software which is a party to various hardware supplies parties. In addition to a lucrative, but less used massively popular operating system which a company provides closely tailored to its own hardware. Respectively, so Windows and Android, alongside Mac OS (X) and iOS.
Unless Microsoft knows well behind to catch up, it is now a duopoly which mobile platforms are concerned. Users and developers base their choices on app availability, target group and willingness to spend. In short, newcomers have little to no chance.
Microsoft is initially purely gone for the PC model, selling to hardware partners. because of its mobile operating system license Now, with the annexation of the cases phone maker Nokia, the Windows Phone maker follows the example of Apple. But whether that is sufficient to turn the tide, that is the question. Windows alternatives like Be OS and various Linux desktop distributions are all not broken.
American dominance
The lower
go BlackBerry also means the disappearance of the last ‘foreign’ option for mobile platforms. Yes, the many different Android device makers are mostly Asian but they rely for their operating system on the American Google. Android formally created by an alliance of those partners, but in doing so has Google founder and driving force still in control.
And the Finnish Nokia, already switched to Windows Phone, is now being bought by Microsoft. Incidentally, not very Nokia: the company CEO Steve Ballmer takes the mobile telefonietak of former competitor in the house. The remaining Nokia plunges on telecom infrastructure pus-services are maps and navigation LORD, and the research arm Advanced Technologies. This last pillar of the remaining Nokia can sometimes prove to be.
dangerousPatent Arsenal
Dangerous is a description that also applies to the mountain patents that BlackBerry has. A property with an estimated value of $ 2.25 billion. Gold mine, the company does not know from the hands of third parties to keep. Additional Treasury is the multitude of patent agreements concluded with various patent opponents the Canadian company over the years, competitors and patent trolls
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see what the new owners of BlackBerry will do with its acquisition. The company divided, and then resell the debris? Rumors of such a scenario have already surfaced and such practices are more often used for takeovers of ailing companies. The investor wants to make returns and having to be in the ordinary course.
not met Going BlackBerry’s patents under the hammer? Then follows a aanwakkering the patent war, as has been done by the auction of the bankrupt Nortel. A telecom company which incidentally was a compatriot of BlackBerry.
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