Apple and Google have out innovated RIM in the mobile space with consumer friendly phones and continue to gain market share but investors should note that there are over 46 million Blackberry subscribers.
Thankfully, there's a helpful option to disable the background and replace it with a yellow sticky-note backdrop. (You can also save and share these jottings, of course.) Basically, the company's crafted this as a shortcut, albeit a convoluted one, that's meant to bypass the lack of any function keys on the actual stylus.