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kleinbl00  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blackberry Venice

I got no video, for whatever reason.

You convinced me on BBRY. I own shit tons of fake options that expire about six days after their earnings meeting Sept 25. Venice or not, they're cashflow positive, they've made a lot of great acquisitions lately, and they just signed two huge clients, one of which is classified.

And that's the bottom line. They're an enterprise platform, and the fact that they've decided to be an enterprise platform that doesn't suck balls is huge.

I've never used a Blackberry. Their specs have always lagged the rest of the world. They've always had janky operating systems. They've never taken real computing seriously. This thing?

I'd jailbreak it, root it and install cyanogenmod just to have a physical keyboard again. And I can't be the only one. Fuckin' iPhones poisoned the well something serious; the switch from "nubbins on the F and J" to "pawing impotently at the glass" was demoralizing and lame.

I'm gettin' tingly at the thought, frankly. Swiftkey kicks the shit out of iOS lameness but BUTTONS.

FYI: BBRY closed at 7.50. In after-hours trading it's already up to $8.74. It hasn't been that high since June.