Why do people hate Blackberry Users?

murraybiscuit said:
i never really got all the hype about push mail and i.m. on bb.
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You mean you never really got email.
murraybiscuit said:
haven't these things been around for ages?
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exactly... but not for cellphones
so you save yourself a few bucks with bis...
i guess that's nice, but bis doesn't cover tethering, so it's of limited use to me.
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Most people save save hundreds of rands with BIS, you can still tether but will cost extra.
i guess i'm really just not the target market for these devices - you have to either have been in a corporate with an archaic email solution, never have used im on a pc before, or see your handset as your primary technology platform.
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Archaic ? like exchange ? or like any other email platform ?

Blackberry is the Primary technology platform on the movie.
 
I remember back in the day when I was working for Vodacare and got my very first Blackberry very clearly. I got it as a business tool, and still use them for that purpose to this day. Now every second person is flashing a BB pin on one medium or another. So its important to differentiate between blackberry users, as there are two kinds: Business and Pleasure. As a business tool they are awesome, and yes they are cool for social too, but BBM has become like facebook (IE see how many contacts I can have by the end of the week, not really knowing any one of them). So to the fellow business BB users out ther, go TEAM. To the social fashionista BB users: tone it down will you :-|
 
Dolby said:
Someone told me 'iphone is the phone everyone wants ; BB is DEAD'

Thing is it's taken almost 4 years iPhone sales to overtake BB.
BB still have the market share over iPhone in the US, Germany, Ukraine, UK, the world ...

Hardly dead!

And the main thing I see is ALL my friends have one, just got one, or getting within the next few months. The ratio seems 1 : 10 right now.
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I agree with you.

The other day we went to dinner with a couple of friends. We were 9 people at the table, 8 of us had BB's and one guy had a Nokia. So your 1:10 ratio argument is 99% true.
 
BlackBerry ownership is picking up big time in SA. It must be one of RIMS fastest growing markets. The BIS thing just makes a lot of sense in bandwidth expensive SA.
 
BeVonk! said:
BlackBerry ownership is picking up big time in SA. It must be one of RIMS fastest growing markets. The BIS thing just makes a lot of sense in bandwidth expensive SA.
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Its not only that. The prepaid BIS service provides a way for parents to control telecoms spend when it comes to their kids. RIM was very clever and realized this, and thus brought out the cheap 8520 back in the day, making it cheaper than ever to get into blackberry. This in turn has secured their next generation of customers (to a large extent) as the kids are growing up with Blackberry, and will probably stick to blackberry, much like i stuck to Nokia in my early days for that same reasoning.
 
Agree Hugo_ZA, my wife and oldest kid are already on BB and the second kid is getting on soon. It just makes sense. BBM works great to stay in touch and I don't worry about the data bills anymore. The 8520 revolutionised the market imo.
 
Actually feel sorry for them if they're on Vodacom :/

I couldn't imagine a worse 'punishment' that having a Blackberry that only worked 8/10 times. Imagine buying a Ferrari that only started 8/10 times?

Quite frustrating
 
Dolby said:
Actually feel sorry for them if they're on Vodacom :/

I couldn't imagine a worse 'punishment' that having a Blackberry that only worked 8/10 times. Imagine buying a Ferrari that only started 8/10 times?

Quite frustrating
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huh? WTF you on about?
 
AS per topic, I don't hate BB users.

But when I learn they're on Vodacom, I feel sorry for them. They've got this fantastic handset infront of them with free data, instant messangers, file transfer ... but they're on Vodacom and can't utilise it to it's potential. I got my Blackberry and I believed it to be a 24/7 service like MTN.

I soon learnt it wasn't though and there's around 20% downtime every day. When I'm connected, it takes me around 30 minutes to send a 3MB file.
 
oh I wouldn't know about their BB service then, never had a problem for normal cellphones tho.
 
Oh yea - normal cellphone are great.

I've had a Vodacom contract for about 15 years (8 years in my own name) and have 4 contracts with them. I've been using Vodacom 3G without an issue for many, many years now too.

All of a sudden through the network has crashed (seems to be Gauteng) and I'm generally either a) not working or b) on GPRS. Same with BIS actually :/

So after 15 years the reason I'm trying to leave is not their high cost, not their substandard call center - but their atrocious network service!
 
Dolby said:
Oh yea - normal cellphone are great.

I've had a Vodacom contract for about 15 years (8 years in my own name) and have 4 contracts with them. I've been using Vodacom 3G without an issue for many, many years now too.

All of a sudden through the network has crashed (seems to be Gauteng) and I'm generally either a) not working or b) on GPRS. Same with BIS actually :/

So after 15 years the reason I'm trying to leave is not their high cost, not their substandard call center - but their atrocious network service!
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Solution: move to the Cape. :) No probs here with BIS.
 
MY BIS off during the following times :

19:32 - 19:41 (9 minutes)
19:56 - 20:09 (13 minutes)
20:33 - 20:40 (7 minutes)
21:04 - 21:10 (6 minutes)

I think I'm going to start a thread about the lack of service
 
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Ok, so where does the BB actually "shine"?

I've got push email with my iPhone 3G, unified Mail inbox, got a bigger & better screen than any of the Crapberries, got a MUCH better internet browser than any Crapberry, got a much better app store than the Crapberry.....so PLEASE tell me where does it actually leave the Apple & Android phones in the dust? You want to send messages? Get yourself a 100 sms bundle for R33, or download MXit from the app store....and I can open PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint files as well.

Just another overhyped midrange phone.
 
Why has it sold so well and continues to dominate if that were true? :/

Surely if it was as sub standard as you say - it'd have died a death ages ago?
 
kingrob said:
Ok, so where does the BB actually "shine"?

I've got push email with my iPhone 3G, unified Mail inbox, got a bigger & better screen than any of the Crapberries, got a MUCH better internet browser than any Crapberry, got a much better app store than the Crapberry.....so PLEASE tell me where does it actually leave the Apple & Android phones in the dust? You want to send messages? Get yourself a 100 sms bundle for R33, or download MXit from the app store....and I can open PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint files as well.

Just another overhyped midrange phone.
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I've got the iPhone 4. I use it as a toy and it makes a very very good toy. Great apps. Great web browsing. Lots of data stored on it. Good multimedia device.

My BB Bold however with its BIS-BES beats my iPhone hands down as a work device due to its very effective keyboard, email and messaging implimentation. No matter how good my typing has become on my iPhone it will never be as easy, fast and accurate as on my Bold. And when typing is a major part of one's day this matters big time. An iPhone with a keyboard as good as the Bold's may win me over.
 
kingrob said:
Ok, so where does the BB actually "shine"?

I've got push email with my iPhone 3G, unified Mail inbox, got a bigger & better screen than any of the Crapberries, got a MUCH better internet browser than any Crapberry, got a much better app store than the Crapberry.....so PLEASE tell me where does it actually leave the Apple & Android phones in the dust? You want to send messages? Get yourself a 100 sms bundle for R33, or download MXit from the app store....and I can open PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint files as well.

Just another overhyped midrange phone.
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Firstly my Torch costs just about half of a new Iphone, and does all the push stuff you talk about because it wants to, not because you want it too. Secondly once I paid my R349 that is it. I went over at the beginning of the month to BB and I had 105.90 MB data left on my bundle. Guess what, it is still on 105.90 and I have been flying data since I have had no restrictions.

A friend of mine bitched the other day because his iPhone update chewed more than 400MB data.

To debate the rest of your comments:

The screen - the iPhone has undoubtedly got the best screen, yes even better than the Galaxy, but when I want to watch a video I do so on my 42 inch. I find the torch screen , which is only slightly smaller just as good with pinch zooming, etc. The iphone screen is the reason it needs a 1Ghz processor.

The browser - I disagree. The BB OS6 browser is superb, and can be verified on various reviews.

App store - agreed, BB is way behind, but that is not unique to BB.

Messaging - you have clearly not spent time with a BB - it is what it does, but not only SMS - it integrates all messaging from wherever it comes from, whether it be email, BB messenger, SMS, Facebook or your RSS feeds so well you don't even realise that you are switching applications. It is superb at messaging and organising. I can post a facebook message straight from my address book, whilst arranging a meeting on my calendar which I know will have already synced on my PC.

That brings me to multitasking. Iphone multitask? Didn't know it could.

BB keyboard - the best. On my torch I have three input methods - touch, keyboard and trackpad!

The best way to sum it up is like this. You will play with your BB a long time after you have put the iPhone down.

Why do people dislike BB users? Because they don't have one yet.
 
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