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Originally Posted by Milfer
who uses fucking keypad these days?
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Business people. And that's where Blackberry will have its greatest impact, where it always used to, in business and corporate environments. They stumbled a bit and lost some contracts to iPhone and Samsung, but some are returning to what many perceive as the only business-oriented phone out there.
Not everyone wants, or cares about, apps or games. They simply want a phone to be more in tune with business --> phone, efficient emails (properly formatted, not txt speak gibberish), and occasionally check an intranet site, or internet site as the case may be. Not for surfing, playing games, listening to music, etc.
My brother-in-law works for Chevron and they switched out all employee phones for iPhones and people there overwhelmingly hated it because, in his words (he's an exec there), it's not a business phone. It's a "social consumer phone". He figures they're going back to Blackberry one their next contract as well. The "Classic" and the "Passport" are the two he says he's evaluating. Personally, I think the Passport is obnoxiously big, like most smartphones these days.