Only really in SA imo. Its funny because SA's one of the only places that BBM and this 'low cost internet' was a pull feature. BB is pretty much a business phone elsewhere.
Always amazing me too though, I never understood it. Horrible small keyboards, small screens, and pretty terrible reliability. If I has R10 for every facebook news feed post, "MY BB died, I have a new one, pin: XXXXX, add me pls!", I'd be a rich man.
This published in Tech Central yesterday:
This from MyBroadband today:It’s all over. BlackBerry, which once led the smartphone market, has agreed to be bought by a consortium, led by major shareholder Fairfax Financial. The proposed deal is subject to the conclusion of a due diligence of the business.
I never used one and quite glad I didn't (although I was a wee bit tempted when the Z10 came out). But it was (possibly still is) a popular device in the emerging and third world markets. BBs never cracked it big enough in first world economies and that's possibly where their demise began.There are few arenas more brutal and merciless than the cellphone market. In just five years Blackberry has gone from the world’s leading smartphone brand to a company teetering on the edge of collapse.
I think the nature of the beast is that it would be popular in many economies like ours where the cost of internet is prohibitive.
well to bad guess they could not keep up... But the war of Apple and samsung will become bigger.