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If they build a unified notification inbox, I will pay for that. I had one of those when I used a Blackberry and I miss it as I now have to check 10 sites perio
by MattGaiser 6y ago
If they build a unified notification inbox, I will pay for that. I had one of those when I used a Blackberry and I miss it as I now have to check 10 sites periodically to stay on top of things.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoYeah, I worked at BB during that time when the Blackberry Hub on BB10 came out. Shit was awesome to see internally.
- MattGaiser 6y agoThat was excellent and I stuck with my Z30 for a long time because of it.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoI still have a special Z10 that I was allowed to keep after working there. It's a red Z10 running an unlocked bootloader which allows you to hold down volume up-volume down and boot into Android 5.0 environment. Sadly "Project Exodus" was considered inappropriate at the time just like the original Android Player on BB10 since it was considered inappropriate to think anything other than BB10 was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Edit: 2 years after I left, Blackberry devices became Android devices... so I guess I was ahead of the curve or something?
- westmeal 6y agoCan you ask your friends how to unlock the bootloader on my key2? Pretty please?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoIt is probably not possible, you have to unlock on premises using a signed version of the tooling on a beta version of the OS on the device. Your key2 probably has a customer version of the OS running it, so it would never be able to be unlocked :( I argued about this but eventually the security of the "ecosystem" takes over the usability of unlocking older devices so they can be used for something else.
- 2cb 6y agoMan I really wish BB10 had come to the market earlier. I honestly don't doubt it'd still be around today if it wasn't for the fact it entered the market so late. BB were too busy dragging their feet for years after iOS and Android hit the scene. If they started work on BB10 as soon as the iPhone was released, I think we'd still have BlackBerries and more importantly a third platform. The Apple/Google duopoly benefits no one except Apple and Google. I still have a Q10 somewhere, it's such a nice phone too.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoThere's still a lot of things I can't talk about because some of the people who I worked with, who are great people still work there. Internally, 33% of every dollar went to the Blackberry Wireless division because Blackberry was created before commoditized mobile chips existed. In effect, this means we paid for the chips, paid an extra fee to unlock it just so we could flash our software. It was an ongoing battle between the spec for Bluetooth being released and having our own version, validating it against every single thing out there that could connect to it and then shipping it out. This made it extremely pricy to deliver a feature on the wireless stack and often things just weren't supported which came with the original chipset. It's difficult to turn the ship around without just firing everyone involved and going "just grab what's there just like Android is doing"
- emdowling 6y agoWasn't a unified place for communications, with connections and feeds from all the services you and your company used, the original goal of Slack?
- drcongo 6y agoAs someone who has never owned a Blackberry, can you explain what this means? I'm not sure why you need to check sites for notifications, that seems like the opposite of a notification.
- goatinaboat 6y agoAs someone who has never owned a Blackberry, can you explain what this means? BlackBerry funnelled everything - email, BBM, tweets, Facebook messages, whatever - into a unified interface. Basically you didn’t need to care where a message came from, you saw it all in one place and could just reply from there. You would not need to check one app for email, another for IMs, another for tweets etc.
- gorgonzolachz 6y agoIsn't this just notification center? I don't think you can reply to say, a slack message from it, but most services have some form of notification support that will redirect you to the proper app context
- goatinaboat 6y agoI don't think you can reply to say, a slack message from it I think Slack post-dates BlackBerry but you could definitely reply to e.g. a FB message from within it. BB wrote and maintained their own FB connector to facilitate it, FB never shipped a BB app.
- drcongo 6y agoYeah, this is the other thing I'm baffled about here. My iPhone is my unified notification inbox and I can do all of those things right from the lock screen. I definitely never have to visit sites to check notifications.
- jdsully 6y agoThe point is you didn't need to be redirected.
- andrewprock 6y agoHonestly, the last thing I want is a unified inbox. I get inputs from a dozen different streams and have segregated them by platform to better manage my time. I want it to be really easy for people to get a hold of me if the information is important or if they are important to me, e.g. via SMS or voice. I want it to be very difficult to be overwhelmed by low signal content unless that is my focus at the time, e.g. mailing lists, work email, etc. And I want to be able to select my focus. When I am reading about mountain bikes, I want to read about mountain bikes. I don't want to sort through work messages, family memes, or tech news at the same time.
- rchaud 6y agoAgreed. Slack + Outlook is for work, Whatsapp/Messenger is for friends, Gmail for personal stuff. The last thing I want is for all of those to be jammed into one app.
- Grustaf 6y agoWhat's wrong with the existing notification inbox in macos? It's available quicker, by just swiping in from the right side.
- ideamotor 6y agoAnd you can add calendar, todo, notes, etc etc widgets to it. It is slow and you can’t use the keyboard to navigate it. I think developers are very limited in what they can do with it. That said, it covers 80% of what users are looking for here ...