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I think you give too much credit to ActiveSync. That was available on Windows Mobile and I'd say the heyday of that was well before the era of Blackberry domina
by klagermkii 11y ago
I think you give too much credit to ActiveSync. That was available on Windows Mobile and I'd say the heyday of that was well before the era of Blackberry domination.
From my own usage of ActiveSync I remember the data networks of the era were not great with push protocols, at least not compared to the almost magic instantaneousness of Blackberry email and their custom solution.
- stephengillie 11y agoActivesync was good enough that a lot of smaller customers could stop paying the extra Blackberry fee to their carrier, the extra Blackberry fee to their cloud host (OR the cost of maintaining an extra server in their colo), and stop carrying their 2nd phone.