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John Gruber: BlackBerry vs. iPhone
- jawngee 19y agoYes, sorry no. This article, while well researched, is an ultimate fail. I have both an iphone and a blackberry and there is no way in hell that an iphone can match the blackberry for what the blackberry is good for: email and communication. I can and do type emails one handed, while I'm typing those emails it's not uncommon for me to receive instant messages (AIM/Blackberry/GTalk), recieve twits, etc. I can even type one handed without looking. Maybe 2.0 will change this, but I doubt it. Blackberry will win for a long while. Furthermore, the stranglehold on the enterprise sector is going to be hard to crack because IT hates change that has no appreciable benefit.
- axod 19y agoI completely disagree. The blackberry doesn't even have a competent browser. No ajax support. For me also the keyboard is just unusable compared to the iphone. Pretty small screen also. Blackberry does seem to have quite a hold in corporates etc, but in terms of usability the clear winner for me is the iPhone. Also the email client on the iPhone is pretty awesome.
- run4yourlives 19y ago>"In broad terms, BlackBerrys are optimized first for email; the iPhone for the web. What’s more important, an email client or a web browser? For most people, and perhaps even most current BlackBerry users, the answer is clearly the web." That's so wrong I don't even know how to tackle it. You can be sure that if Apple is thinking like this, the item on my hip will be a blackberry for a very, very long time.