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RIM Gives Up After Losing Initial Battle Over BBX Trademark
First time accepted submitter Mastadex writes "RIM's brand new BlackBerry mobile OS, due in early 2012, was expected to be called BBX. But due to a recent court ruling against it, RIM has dropped BBX and opted simply for 'BlackBerry 10.' Software company Basis International said a U.S. federal court in Albuquerque has granted a temporary restraining order against RIM, barring it from using Basis's BBX trademark. The court decision bars RIM from using the trademark at its Asian DevCon conference on Wednesday and Thursday in Singapore."
Until this case came up a while back, I didn't have the slightest idea that they were releasing a new OS.
I'd say it has been a resounding success!
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I sure as hell am not going to use iOS or Android. What is left besides Blackberry? Windows Mobile? Not a chance.
I was at the keynote for the devcon in Singapore today. I was surprised to note that the OS version seemed to jump from the up-and-coming 7.1 to 10 next year. Then while queuing up for the free playbook, we had to sign a "license agreement" for the 2.0 beta OS loaded on some of the devices.
On a sidenote the keynote and all other opening prezzies were delivered using a Macbook pro which had the back covered to obscure the apple logo. I would have liked it better, seeing how much they were loving the HTML 5 on stage, if they'd actually eaten their own dogfood and delivered an awesome HTML5 prezzie using the Playbook+HDMI
BBQ = BlackBerry QNX
QNX (cue-nix) is the OS they are putting on the BlackBerry.
It would stick in people's mind like BBQ sauce to your shirt.
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I know, isn't it just awful? Maybe they should call MSFT to get tips on mobile OSes nobody cares about. Of course its RIM, stupidity personified so it would be like the ultimate battle of the dumbasses if you put them and Ballmer's Folly against each other.
Lets all be honest for a moment shall we? RIM is dead, they are disco, they are going on the cart whether they feel happy or not. So the big question is this: Who picks over the corpse for the IP? While Google would be my first bet with Steve "I want to be like Apple damn it!" Ballmer in charge of MSFT they might try to pull another crazy yahoo bid for RIM out of their ass. any other takes you guys think?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I stopped reading after the first three words. Just like they should have given up three years ago.
Just remember -- they were saying the same thing about Apple 15 years ago.
Things can turn quickly.
I urge you to look around and remember how many Blackberries are still being used everywhere. You may not like them, you may have never used one, and your experience may be limited to these sensationalized news articles, but enough people still use Blackberries that it is actually important.
I carry two phones, one company Blackberry and my personal Samsung Galaxy S2. Before I got my GalaxyS2, I carried a personal Blackberry. They are good phones and their software is solid. Not many other smartphones can go weeks without having to be rebooted, especially with the battery life they pull.
Oh I know, tons of companies and even a few misguided people use Blackberries. But nobody cares about the OS. It's a boring appliance for messaging and some basic browsing. Upgrades add just a few features, usually bringing the BlackberryOS' capabilities in line with what cheapo phones had 5 years ago (and thus the good battery life). It's the most boring part of the boring tool that is the boring Blackberry.
The Blackberry is the fleet van of the mobile device world. Nobody raves about the Ford Econoline and most would not like one for a personal vehicle. Same with Blackberries.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I sure as hell am not going to use W or X. What is left besides Y? Z? Not a chance.
Brilliant system! It works great on all sorts of things!
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The blackberries network is almost the only alternative to Microsoft's Activesync so I would imagine getting it out of the way would be a big win for them.
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
I look around all the time, I take a commuter train into work every morning, the phones have gone from Blackberries to almost 100% iPhones in the last 4 years.
In the office we have supported BB and Activesync for just as long... in the Windows Mobile days we had a handful of WM users and hundreds of BBs, now we offer a corp BB or opt out and user Activesync program... We now have fewer than 100 BBs and hundreds of attached Activesync devices almost all iPhones and a few Android.
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
I'd like to see that. iPhones don't have that much grab. The market distribution with regards to smartphones seems to be still ~40% iPhone, ~40% Android, ~20% Blackberry. Most of the market research seemed to indicate that last time I saw it, too.
even a few misguided people use Blackberries.
Please, oh please, tell me why I am misguided. I'd love to hear your reason. A Blackberry is a phone. A phone is a tool. You choose a tool that does the job you need it to do. iPhones don't always make the cut, or any other phone for that matter. I am personally offended now.
Now, regarding the rest of your post: Yes, and like I said, they just plain work. A lot of people will trade fancy flashlights built in to their phones for stability. I personally would rather have a 100% working phone than flash capabilities. You may not think about the Ford Econoline, Chevy Express, or even the Mack trucks on the road, but without them, the world stops spinning.
True. They should have called it Research In Motion Blackberry OS for Mobile Phones and Tablets version 10.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Or you want reliable email and communications, you know. iPhone and Android suck at ensuring your email and/or text messages get out. Blackberries just don't give up. Email, too. Many times my Android phone has tried to send an email just to finally send it out the next day. My Blackberries have never not been persistent. If signal goes out, they pick up as soon as they can.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Android phone, but the Blackberry holds a place in this world. I would love to have a company issued other-phone, but the Blackberry makes sure I stay in touch. It's all for the better that all of the games on it suck.
PS, have you tried BBOS 6? It's actually pretty slick... especially on the Torch.
I'd say that the $8,825,000,000 in gross profit last year is what keeps them in business. In case you couldn't understand all those zeros, that's $8.825 BILLION.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Thank you for agreeing with me that mkosmo has no data to support his ridiculous claims that Androids and iPhones aren't good at sending mail.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
You are lucky then. Or rather, perhaps I'm just unlucky. I haven't dicked with any iDevices in a while, so perhaps its a nonissue there, but I continue to see it on my Android device. Once I narrow the reasoning, I'll submit a bug report, but until then, how am I supposed to cite experience?
Now they'll have to name their minor revision of an OS that nobody cares about slightly differently!
Wow. It's like you've gone out of your way to be as uninformed as possible.
BB10 is a radical departure from the old BBOS -- hell, it's a completely different operating system!
RIM acquired QNX some time ago and have been getting it ready for the next generation of smartphones. QNX, as you probably already know, is a rock-solid RTOS. It runs nuclear reactors FFS!
Put simply, QNX (BB10) is the most advanced and capable mobile OS in the world. It is in no way "a minor revision" of their old OS.
As for "no one cares", if that's true, they should. BB10 is at least a generation ahead of Android and iOS. They've set the new standard for what a mobile OS should be.
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