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Re:BlackBerry to turn BBM secure-messaging system into subsc... by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @05:31PM (#13602829)
This would be believable if it weren't for the fact that—ESPECIALLY in 2007 as a high school kid(!?)—it was absurd to buy a smartphone unless you were tied to email. It was just too expensive compared to, say, texting + the $50 flip phone.

Plus, blackberry was ALWAYS lame.

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Re:BlackBerry to turn BBM secure-messaging system into subsc... by jlgaddis on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:42PM (#13604499)
> Plus, blackberry was ALWAYS lame.

In high schools perhaps but certainly not in the corporate world.

In a "promo", I got Blackberry Enterprise Server (some "Express" version, IIRC) and 15 device licenses when I got my first Blackberry (I was the first Blackberry user at $company). Within maybe 60 days or so -- after a few execs found out they could get their e-mail on a phone -- we were running the full BES product and constantly purchasing additional licenses to support more devices.

A few years later, Apple announced this new product called an "iPhone" and it was all downhill from there.

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