The original blackberry was great. With today's technology it would fit on a wristwatch and the battery would last for a year. Blackberry got caught up in an

The original blackberry was great. With today's technology it would fit on a wristwatch and the battery would last for a year. Blackberry got caught up in an arms race that offered no benefit to its customers. Why waste 50% of CPU cycles to make the UI look more like Windows 3.1 ? Blackberry also charged for the SDK and offered no quality control, so eventually mobile JRE apps (not designed at all to be usable on BB hardware) became the majority of apps. I have used several over the years but about 3 years ago it became clear that IOS was worth a 50% price increase per month.