3 ms·
There'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
by WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
There'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"