The new OS, which is the most important part of the product, isn't an evolution of the old BlackBerry platform.
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Right now everyone could probably rattle off their three favourite mobile applications, and they would not all be on the BlackBerry platform.
According to my most recent poll, the Blackberry platform dominates IT support share with at 47%, the Apple iOS solution is second at 27%.
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Research in Motion may have had a five-year head start on Apple, but they failed to build out a developer community and made the BlackBerry platform too complex for third-party developers.
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There will not be a compelling reason to adopt the new BlackBerry service platform.
RIM's delay with its BlackBerry 10 platform will further impair its ability to retain users.
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Research In Motion this morning said that the BlackBerry 10 platform has been certified for use by government agencies.
As it stands, the BlackBerry 10 platform has all the right building blocks you would expect as part of the core OS and firmware.
Research in Motion seems to be on a roll now that it has announced the launch date of its BlackBerry 10 platform in January 2013.
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The Company expects that there will be continued pressure on operating results as it gets set to launch its BlackBerry 10 platform in the fourth quarter.
With the launch of BlackBerry 10 yet to come in 2013, BlackBerry will continue to rely on its aging BlackBerry 7 platform, and equally aging device line-up.
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The new BlackBerry Q10 smartphone is based on the re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry 10 platform and offers customers a powerful and unique new mobile computing experience.
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We are looking forward to their contributions as we continue to drive for long-term shareholder value and seek opportunities to leverage the extraordinary BlackBerry 10 platform launched last week.
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In building a native application for the BlackBerry 10 platform, WhatsApp has been able to provide a fantastic user experience that leverages the true multi-tasking capabilities of BlackBerry 10.
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We have a long standing security partnership with BlackBerry and this gives us confidence that the BlackBerry 10 platform is likely to represent a viable solution for UK Government.
"We are excited about our plans to bring Skype to smartphones running the brand new BlackBerry 10 platform, " Bob Rosin, vice president of business development for Microsoft Corp.
In addition, over this past year, Robin has led RIM's Enterprise business unit focused on enabling services for Enterprise customers and preparing for the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform.
Skype has been working very closely with BlackBerry to bring the Skype for Android app to the BlackBerry 10 platform, in order to bring all the amazing Skype features to the device.
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She closed out a launch where executives showed off a number of software features for the new BlackBerry 10 platform that had already been teased to the press over the last few months.
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In what will be its first public move to revive its flagging fortunes, Research in Motion announced early last week that it will unveil the new BlackBerry 10 platform at a media event January 30.
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"Sprint and RIM have been strong partners for more than a dozen years, and we have an extremely loyal base of BlackBerry customers who will appreciate the features of the new BlackBerry 10 platform, " said David Owens, vice president-Product Development, Sprint.
Led by Alec Saunders, the group has been actively courting developers ahead of next week's launch with tools that make it easy to port over Android apps and programs like Built for BlackBerry, which offer incentives for apps made for the BlackBerry 10 platform.
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"The BlackBerry Q10 smartphone delivers a powerful new platform for BlackBerry customers, " said Carlo Chiarello, executive vice president-Global Smartphone Business, RIM.
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BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp Messenger to fully leverage innovative new features like BlackBerry Flow, where apps work together, sharing information with each other to quickly lead the customer intuitively to the information they need and to give them the ability to immediately take action.
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It is not clear that BlackBerry 10 is the platform that fits those criteria right now.
In a conference call Thursday afternoon, RIMM announced that it was in the middle of transitioning to a new platform called BlackBerry 7, which could slow sales of older smartphone models.
"BlackBerry has been a great platform for WhatsApp for many years, " said Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp.
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There's many other features to come with BB10 that will really level this BBM experience... which will upgrade that experience to a whole new social networking experience based on BBM... we want to use this to build a BlackBerry-driven social networking platform.
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Android operating systems have the largest share of the smartphone market worldwide, followed by Apple's iOS platform with systems from Blackberry, Microsoft and others far behind.
As I progress through my 30-day BlackBerry trial, I'm writing most of my thoughts with the assumption that you have a basic understanding of BlackBerry's new devices and platform.
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