Oddbean

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 BlackBerry was one of the most private devices out there, they even adapted a great architecture like QNX (after its acquisition) in its last years of life and were one of the first if not the first to use point to point encryption in a messaging client.

It was even the standard for many governments, including the genocidal Obama, now the standard is iOS. 

The moral is that the best does not always win.

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 Very good the movie Blackberry (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kdIV11r0-8

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 Because of the implication…

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 I did have a blackberry. I didn’t know any of that, but I did really enjoy it.

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 Might not have been the free market deciding.

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 Miss my BlackBerry. Make phones private communication devices only again.

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 👋 Had one of the largest BlackBerry blogs and worked directly with BlackBerry 

I'm convinced that, while at the time the iPhone was a technological break-through for an all-touch consumer-grade candybar style phone, it was predominantly pushed by the US government in order to consolidate their control over technology products.

Notice how foreign companies like BlackBerry were not on the leaked slides from Snowden? Apple and Google were...

QNX was amazing and so was how they used it to create BB10, the first RTOS for mobile. Their SDK for porting apps was very easy too. I wss part of the BB10 dev evangelist program. Yet, for some reason most app devs ignored it. Very strange, considering how easy it was to port their apps.

Of course, there were also plenty of internal decisions that played a role on BB's demise in the phone market, but I believe it was also partially influenced by governments who didn't like its encryption-by-default.

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 Devs ignored it because humans are hacked animals. They only do and like what "tv" tells them to do and like.

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 When will they open source their code? I have a few devices I want to play with

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 Wish they would. Probably never tbh.

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 Depends what is your metric for "best". If the metric is "how well can it track you"....... maybe the best really did win... (not opposing your point at all.. )

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 Blackberry broke the ground for email away from office, but iPhone was the innovation that bought in real mobile computing. Consumer demand for the iPhone crushed Blackberry and Nokia.

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 The q10 was the best phone, then the passport. 

Even crackberry.com doesn't cover bb anymore. 

To their credit, they completely turned the company around when deciding to only do software.

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 PDAs were where it was peak