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I found the Android Blackberries terrible. Some good parts, but I am really not a fan of how Android does things. (I use iOS, but under a "best of the worst" pr
by deltarholamda 3y ago
I found the Android Blackberries terrible. Some good parts, but I am really not a fan of how Android does things. (I use iOS, but under a "best of the worst" protest.)
The BB OS was great, if a bit slow. The worst part of it was the terrible browser, which really didn't do it any favors, but the communications part of it was so good I could work around it. I don't care much for any mobile browsers, everything is better on a real computer, but at least Safari doesn't crawl to a stop.
I had high hopes for the QNX phones, but RIM sure didn't. But you're right, by the time they had pivoted to Android so they could take advantage of the "App market," it was too late.
Having had a BB for so many years, pawing at a screen makes me feel like the monkeys at the Monolith. I used the BB as my primary email tool, it was just that good at what it did.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoOne quirk I notice about their browser was how it would slow to a craw if too many objects were allocated in JavaScript. I think it was 2^15 objects, at which point performance dropped by at least an order of magnitude. That sounds like a lot of objects but even then web apps were full of libraries calling libraries calling libraries, with each allocating their own baseline of objects.