Look, every week someone writes one of these articles disparaging RIM and BlackBerry, harping on how crap BlackBerry phones are.
Yet none of them actually know what the fuck they're talking about.
They focus on the old RIM, from the Basillie and Lazaridis days. If you actually got involved in the development community, you would see how much RIM's culture has actually changed.
And do you know why? Because QNX took over.
To those lamenting that the developer environment is crap: it was crap. BB10 development is a ton better. Having done Android development, I am able to say it's better than that even. I can't compare it to iOS, but the fact that RIM's tools are available on Linux, OS X, and Windows, makes it better for me.
I've written about this before. You can read them if you like. Honestly though, with the environment here on HN, I don't expect many to read anything I wrote, and instead, blindly accept that iOS/Android are better.
Ultimately, we'll see. The last piece of the puzzle for RIM is marketing, to reverse these negative trends. And they've already started on that front.
Yet none of them actually know what the fuck they're talking about.
They focus on the old RIM, from the Basillie and Lazaridis days. If you actually got involved in the development community, you would see how much RIM's culture has actually changed.
And do you know why? Because QNX took over.
To those lamenting that the developer environment is crap: it was crap. BB10 development is a ton better. Having done Android development, I am able to say it's better than that even. I can't compare it to iOS, but the fact that RIM's tools are available on Linux, OS X, and Windows, makes it better for me.
I've written about this before. You can read them if you like. Honestly though, with the environment here on HN, I don't expect many to read anything I wrote, and instead, blindly accept that iOS/Android are better.
Ultimately, we'll see. The last piece of the puzzle for RIM is marketing, to reverse these negative trends. And they've already started on that front.
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