My company develops for Blackberry as well and it is a mess. Our BB client lags far behind on features compared to our iOS/Android offerings and not for lack of

My company develops for Blackberry as well and it is a mess. Our BB client lags far behind on features compared to our iOS/Android offerings and not for lack of development time. We spend triple the amount of effort developing for BB. As an example, compare the Blackberry offerings in java.util: http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/6.0.0api/index.html http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/6.0.0api/index.htm... to what Android offers: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/package-sum... These are BASIC utilities classes that form the basis for all your java data structures. When you start comparing other areas of development (deployment, UI development, etc) it looks even worse for Blackberry. It really is their approach to getting 3rd party developers on board that has let them slip as far as they have. Their devices are still great and the keyboards are very slick.