BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory

Re:BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Ap... by verelo on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:34AM (#8927714)

If the BB platform wasn't a hunk of junk I would probably agree, it is creating an unfair playing field. The reality is, the blackberry dev tools are not equal, they are terrible and the reason we do not build for BB is not because we're evil and do not like them, its because they do not provide the tools to run a profitable business on their sub-par platform.

To be fair, the iOS and Android platforms are far from perfect, but they have enough user facing features that consumers like that they gain significant distribution and allows companies to build apps at a profit.

BB need to build better products, maybe then they will see people want to work with them. This is just a CEO who doesn't get it complaining because he isn't smart enough to fix the problem he was hired to solve.

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Re:BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Ap... by bactatin on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:42AM (#8927737)

Nothing you said is relevant in a free country. No one mandates software, it's called make your own.

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Re:BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Ap... by verelo on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:35PM (#8931894)

To be clear, i'm not saying its the right thing to do and that i morally agree, i just see the argument they're making in comparison to the net neutrality argument and feel its a creative position that makes me stop to re-think things I previously felt were fair and valid. I don't think this is enough to change my mind on anything, but its interesting all the same.

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Re:BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Ap... by shard972 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:48AM (#8927764)

But that leads to platform inequality. Wake up, it's 2015, stop being regressive.

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