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Yep, I think people tend to forget how bad the blackberry line up was compared to the iPhones and even androids they were competing against. Their flagship in ~
by mardifoufs 7y ago
Yep, I think people tend to forget how bad the blackberry line up was compared to the iPhones and even androids they were competing against. Their flagship in ~2011 was the Bold, which could barely browse the internet, had a horrible camera and an extremely dated UI. Going up against the iPhone 4s which is still functional to this day.
Sometimes some companies just deserve to fail. The current duopoly formed because the competition just couldn't keep up, and that's on them
- thedance 7y agoThe API for BB app development allowed you to have UI elements like text labels or buttons, stacked vertically on the screen. That was the whole thing. If you wanted a table you were on your own. The web browser was very similar to MSIE 3, or NetPositive: it laid everything out vertically, didn’t support tables or CSS. When the iPhone came out with a real web browser it was like it came from another galaxy.
- exikyut 7y agoI get the vertical UI was because the system had initially gone all-in on a scrollwheel, and never fundamentally moved on beyond that point.