Comments on: RIM giving away BB10 phones that consumers will never see

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:52:41 +0000

To all you apple fans who hate on QNX and own a Audi, Acura BMW Chrysler GM Hyundai Land Rover Porsche and Saab with a navigation system. You should probably sell it cuz RIM owns the software

By: md3wilso

md3wilso — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:05:35 +0000

Also, the people getting the developer phones are people going to the BBWorld conference as registered BB developers.

By: md3wilso

md3wilso — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:50:16 +0000

The idea with the developer phones is not to evaluate the OS but to get a head start testing applications on a screen that has the same aspect ratio as the actual device that is released.

This article is written about developers by a consumer. So sad and uninformed.

By: iDont

iDont — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:39:39 +0000

So, only one week left!
We won’t see Cascades in action maybe, but we’ll get a good feel for what BB10 will look like. HW too!

By: GregK

GregK — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:43:07 +0000

Thanks for the comment? His comment barely made any sense. Also–as a developer myself–he has clearly demonstrated that he knows nothing about QNX. All operating systems (including MacOS, Windows 7, Linux) etc… strive to stay as close to a microkernel architecture as possible, usually putting device drivers and graphics subsystem in the kernel only to enhance performance. To say RIM only chose a microkernel OS to “be in vogue” is wrong and demonstrates this poster’s lack of objectivity and lack of knowledge of OS design.

By: stormy

stormy — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:09:10 +0000

Pretty pointless article. UIs will be created with “Cascades”,
any refinements made until release will not affect app development negatively. Giving out handsets to work out bugs is obviously a good idea.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:00:25 +0000

If this article is stating that they gave their phones to app programmers to look at. Then all they would have needed was the source code, no matter how dramatic the actual UI changes?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:50:42 +0000

Agenda. What is yours? From Fired RIMM empty employee as with the other RIMM bashes. Your analysis is totally off base. APP, APP,APP, that all you unemployed guys talk about.
You compare Rimm with Apple. To Rimm’s addressable market, to use the dismissive words of the IT chief Apple is a gimmick to the corporate communities. On a cost basis he liens to windows8. Unlike what you and others are writing, his difficulty is NOT executive wanting to switch to Apple but not changing out of BB hence the gimmick comment. His group writes the BB apps they need and want that you never see.
To run BB he has to run separate servers and pay license fees which he may be able to save money with win8 with its total integration. He can’t be sure at this time a key for RIMM is future TCO of BBfusion or BES relative to future win8. Apple licensed MS Exchange which was there ONLY way they can get into corporations. Whether the license extends to Exchange8 I don’t know, do you or anyone? If it doesn’t you can kiss Apples corporate inroads goodbye. So while you guys get wonky and trivial I’m interested in making money and longer term that’s not apple. Get a Job.

By: fibergeek

fibergeek — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:05:28 +0000

I believe there has been enough bberry bashing already. This is how developers get things going. Also anyone who knows handset development knows nothing earthshaking can change in 3-4 months when carrier certification happens. So give the nice guys in Canada a chance. They may surprise us all.

By: Person

Person — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:49:18 +0000

Guy who wrote this just seems to be bashing rim. I personally like blackberry’s and think the 9810 and 9900 are good, solid phones