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Why Blackberry Needs Real Innovation
- jsm386 17y agoI could be misinformed, but an hour ago I needed to update someone on some weekly stats who is out of the country. He told me to give him a summary as he can't open an XLS attachment on on his Blackberry (one of the new Bolds). If my iPhone can do that, how on Earth could a 'business' smartphone not do that? Please contradict me if I'm wrong; otherwise Blackberry is in far greater need of 'innovation' than this article argues.
- akl 17y agoMy bold can do that, though it's entirely likely he didn't know the path through the menus to open the .xls doc. The office-like suite opens .doc/.xls/.ppt, iirc. It doesn't render properly 100% of the time, though, whereas my iPhone always seemed to.
- axod 17y agoHey. They're finally going to use WebKit instead of their extremely sucky browser, that's gotta be a start.
- davidw 17y agoI recently did some work porting Hecl to the BB, and just found it to generally be a painful experience. Windows-only, lots of weird stuff, a slow emulator, and a generally odd platform. The actual phones are very nice, but in an iPhone/Android world, I think that's not an edge any longer.
- pwpwp 17y agoI won't worry about BB. They seem to be the only company able to create a smartphone that works (i.e. doesn't crash etc.) at the moment.