Re:Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly
by Someone1234 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:08PM
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That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.
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There's a far, far better account at the Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/excerpt-ho...
(it's an excerpt from a book)
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9591528.
I think this is the first time I've seen it mentioned that the Storm experienced a 100% return rate. That's mind boggling.
Re:Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly
by xanderstrike on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:27PM
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It's also false. I still have two in a drawer at home. We were getting trade ins on upgrades (after 2+ years of use) of Storms while I worked at Verizon.
I don't know where they came up with that number. I'd believe 100% of users were dissatisfied, but there was obviously not a 100% return rate. That would mean every phone ever sold came back as a return.
Hard to tell without context, but I would guess that in-context, it was obvious hyperbole.
I noticed the link to the AP article after I posted and it had been upvoted. But to be honest, the 'blog spam' actually says everything that is interesting in the AP article, in about half the wordcount.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://time.com/3916434/blackberry-storm/.
Change the URL again to this: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CN_TEC_BLACKBERRY_FAI...
The current URL makes you pick your city, etc, first.
Ok, sure. Does it work now?
Looks good to me.
The AP link seems to be broken now