Re:Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly
by headgasket on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:27PM
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no wifi. Simple, very simple, bad business decision, to pander to the carriers.
By simply adding the HW and disabling by default they would have appealed to geeks and devs; instead in 2006 we were importing at top dollars grey market nokia e61s from europe. (canadian dev here)
Because the local carriers were offering a variant of those phones without the wifi here.
Iphone with wifi was the paradigm shift, carriers are still reeling from this one.
By simply adding the HW and disabling by default they would have appealed to geeks and devs; instead in 2006 we were importing at top dollars grey market nokia e61s from europe. (canadian dev here)
Because the local carriers were offering a variant of those phones without the wifi here.
Iphone with wifi was the paradigm shift, carriers are still reeling from this one.