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> Privacy and security (and, secondarily, a full physical keyboard) was Blackberry's key differentiator before they lost to the touchscreen-enabled iPhone app e
by elithrar 10y ago
> Privacy and security (and, secondarily, a full physical keyboard) was Blackberry's key differentiator before they lost to the touchscreen-enabled iPhone app ecosystem.
Was it? Blackberry often co-operated to provide governments with access to BBM message content[1][2].
[1]: http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/07/10/after-a-lengthy-battle-blackberry-will-finally-let-the-indian-government-monitor-its-servers/ http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/07/10/after-a-lengthy-battle...
[2]: https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtained-blackberrys-global-decryption-key-how https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtain...
- roymurdock 10y agoBoth of your sources (2010, 2013) don't apply to Blackberry pre iPhone (2007). Even so, I'm speaking to brand perception rather than reality - BB may might have given out keys/built in backdoors pre 2007 and still maintained the perception of being trustworthy.