Afro Republican
Banned
2013 the first smartphone running the legendary BlackBerry 10 OS was born. the touch-screen gesture based Z10. It was the phone that introduced the majority of features many phones today take for granted. This isn't an exaggeration, many documentary and books have been made on the innovations of Black Berry OS, the duopoly retailer contracts Samsung and Apple got away with which would have been illegal 10 years ago, and other obstacles that prevented it from taking off, selling only just under 100 million phones across 6 models in 4 years. It will be ending support in 2020.
Even now with declining support, BlackBerry 10 devices on average have better battery life, are 35% faster, can multitask better, and are much harder to hack or implement viruses, which even HP couldn't do with Palms and almost no one brought those. They are also built like tanks, to last, and aren't made to die in 2 years.
The Smartphone Industry since 2016 has been, let's be honest, stagnant. With innovation just Apple and Android makes reintroducing features that were used by better products long gone due to their duopolitical practices. Even that isn't engaging sales enough leading to prices skyrocketing to make up for declining demand.
Considering how cheap the Z30/Leap/Passport/Classic are right now, I'd buy one just to play around with, use it for awhile, and try to experience what made BB10 5+ years ahead of its time when it entered in 2013. Windows Phone was innovative as well, but nowhere near as much as BB10. Also in MS's case they didn't get as screwed over by Android makers and Apple, their lost was almost entirely incompetence and dumb decisions alone.
When Palmos/WebOS came in it was an advanced system, the best out there, but BB10 smashes that by being 5x more innovative.
This is what happens when corruption destroys competition. The market has become so experiences, and the top brass have so much power it's no longer possible to bring in a new competitor to market. Kind of like the traditional home console market.
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- Your iphone since the X has been using gestures, something considered an innovation, but not only did BB10 do it first years before, but Apple has directly copied some of BB10's gestures.
- Multitasking even today is still superior on a Blackberry, apps running in the background or cut on the same display, music, video, production apps all running at once without draining much battery, and quick switching made BB10 an amazing experience. Android and IOs multitasking has barely changed. Expensive top of the line Android models have improved multitasking but it's limited, drains a ton of battery, and based on the processor can slow down the phone. Maybe Android will catch up with the new upcoming update.
- Home page hubs with all your apps, notifications, news, weather, and etc all on one screen for convenience came from BB10, then taken from HTC and then the rest.
- 3D touch is something that was blatantly ripped off and presented as a new feature never seen before by Apple. Whom Blackberry can't sue due to laws backing Apple and other companies like Samsung, yet they can sue people out of business. Interesting. This also includes the removal of the "home button"
- Custom Emojis, is another one taken from BB10.
- Quick charging cables started with BB10 (they were Micro USB like Android but had a special aspect that the software would pick up increasing charging speed 10x, which Android would do later)
- Modern wireless charging (putting phone over an object to charge)
- Still the most secure OS in the market in terms of security features, firewalls, proxies, and phone tracking if lost/stolen.
Even now with declining support, BlackBerry 10 devices on average have better battery life, are 35% faster, can multitask better, and are much harder to hack or implement viruses, which even HP couldn't do with Palms and almost no one brought those. They are also built like tanks, to last, and aren't made to die in 2 years.
The Smartphone Industry since 2016 has been, let's be honest, stagnant. With innovation just Apple and Android makes reintroducing features that were used by better products long gone due to their duopolitical practices. Even that isn't engaging sales enough leading to prices skyrocketing to make up for declining demand.
Considering how cheap the Z30/Leap/Passport/Classic are right now, I'd buy one just to play around with, use it for awhile, and try to experience what made BB10 5+ years ahead of its time when it entered in 2013. Windows Phone was innovative as well, but nowhere near as much as BB10. Also in MS's case they didn't get as screwed over by Android makers and Apple, their lost was almost entirely incompetence and dumb decisions alone.
When Palmos/WebOS came in it was an advanced system, the best out there, but BB10 smashes that by being 5x more innovative.
This is what happens when corruption destroys competition. The market has become so experiences, and the top brass have so much power it's no longer possible to bring in a new competitor to market. Kind of like the traditional home console market.
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