Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days

• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That was one of the big 5 in my mind. I never did any BB dev, but I remember looking into it at the time. If I couldn’t get a device for cheap or free it was inaccessible. Student life is what it is. By the time I made my webOS money they were already on the decline and considering a move to android so I didn’t consider it thereon.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I gotta say, I actually enjoyed the time programming for BlackBerry. It was the only time I actually did C++/Qt professionally. And the APIs were very inspired on the iOS/MacOS ones, so it was kinda easy for me to migrate later to iOS.

    But just the same way, the guys in the university lab back then got a few BB10 devices just for sending apps to their app store.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Glen Howerton as Balsilly knocked it out of the park with that performance

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