ScottySatan
Well-Known Member
I'm kind of a technophobe. I take a page from the Amish and do my best to insist that a new technology must 1) make my life better AND 2) not make my life worse, before I adopt it.
I got my first cell phone in 2008 for about $20. It was a piece of **** that didn't function very well as a phone. I upgraded in 2011 to a $30 phone and it was a little better. By then, the smart phones were in full swing. Seeing people totally absorbed by them, totally oblivious to their surroundings, put a really bad taste in my mouth. I told myself that I would never get a smart phone.
A couple of months ago, tired of shoddy electronics, call dropping, and with the realisation that being able to check e-mail away from the wifi would be useful, I took the plunge, called myself a sell-out, and got the new Blackberry Q10. Hey! now I don't have to type the number "7" four times to get the letter "S" in a text message. Thanks, Blackberry!
The Blackberry does what iPhones do, but you don't feel compelled to do it on the sidewalk or at the dinner table. It's clearly a communications device, not for playing Angry Birds. On paper, the Blackberry is actually a little better than the Apple or Samsung at that.
Now I hear that my Blackberry might go away? What am I going to do? I really don't want a ******* iPhone. Am I going to have to go to Target and buy one of those cheap Chinese Blackberry knockoffs, that is probably roughly as good as a blackberry was in 2005? Speaking of which, why do all of the stores have Samsung Galaxies and imitation Blackberries, but no Blackberries? Seriously, my local Target store has like ten different kinds of phones with keyboards, I assume they must be selling. I have never seen a real one for sale. Is it any wonder that you're not selling as many as you'd like?
Blackberry, I still hear that you're selling millions of phones. I've never sold millions of anything. What, because you're not the best seller, you're just going to throw in the towel? Why not just step down a rung or two on the ladder? I bet there was a time when you would have been thrilled to have the market share you have now. Don't be such a baby.
I got my first cell phone in 2008 for about $20. It was a piece of **** that didn't function very well as a phone. I upgraded in 2011 to a $30 phone and it was a little better. By then, the smart phones were in full swing. Seeing people totally absorbed by them, totally oblivious to their surroundings, put a really bad taste in my mouth. I told myself that I would never get a smart phone.
A couple of months ago, tired of shoddy electronics, call dropping, and with the realisation that being able to check e-mail away from the wifi would be useful, I took the plunge, called myself a sell-out, and got the new Blackberry Q10. Hey! now I don't have to type the number "7" four times to get the letter "S" in a text message. Thanks, Blackberry!
The Blackberry does what iPhones do, but you don't feel compelled to do it on the sidewalk or at the dinner table. It's clearly a communications device, not for playing Angry Birds. On paper, the Blackberry is actually a little better than the Apple or Samsung at that.
Now I hear that my Blackberry might go away? What am I going to do? I really don't want a ******* iPhone. Am I going to have to go to Target and buy one of those cheap Chinese Blackberry knockoffs, that is probably roughly as good as a blackberry was in 2005? Speaking of which, why do all of the stores have Samsung Galaxies and imitation Blackberries, but no Blackberries? Seriously, my local Target store has like ten different kinds of phones with keyboards, I assume they must be selling. I have never seen a real one for sale. Is it any wonder that you're not selling as many as you'd like?
Blackberry, I still hear that you're selling millions of phones. I've never sold millions of anything. What, because you're not the best seller, you're just going to throw in the towel? Why not just step down a rung or two on the ladder? I bet there was a time when you would have been thrilled to have the market share you have now. Don't be such a baby.
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