As RIM’s Blackberry devices become lost in all shuffle of Android and iPhone smartphones, Blackberry smartphones have become outright embarrassing devices. When someone pulls out a Blackberry I’m not sure if I want to laugh or cry. Blackberry devices are seen a fossil smartphones these days, some people are even ashamed to carry a Blackberry.
Among the latest signs of the loss of cachet: One of the first steps Marissa Mayer took as Yahoo’s newly appointed chief executive to remake the company’s stodgy image was to trade in employees’ BlackBerrys for iPhones and Androids. BlackBerrys may still linger in Washington, Wall Street and the legal profession, but in Silicon Valley they are as rare as a necktie.
“I want to take a bat to it,” Ms. Crosby said, after waiting for her phone’s browser to load for the third minute, only to watch the battery die. “You can’t do anything with it. You’re supposed to, but it’s all a big lie.”
[NYT]
