Category: Telecom

Blackberry Opts Out

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blackberry

The leadership at Blackberry continues to amaze me with its inability to turn the company around.  They’ve been at the very least risk adverse at a time when they should have been making brazen moves in order to regain even a slimmer of market share.  Now it seems that they’ve completely thrown in the towel when it comes to the mobile hardware market as they’ve sold global rights to the Blackberry brand to Chinese manufacturer TCL.

The mobile pickings in the US are very slim – iOS or Android; just like our 2-party political system.  We really need a third option.  Hopefully, there’ll be new competition that will totally disrupt the mobile market.

January 1, 1970

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If you have pranksters for friends, please do not allow them to trick you into manually changing the date on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to 1-1-1970.  For some odd reason, there’s a bug within Apple’s framework that will prevent 64-bit iOS devices from booting up.  This means your device will basically become a paperweight.  Yeah, and trying to restore it from iTunes doesn’t solve the problem either.

Apple is investigating the issue, but in the meanwhile – refrain from setting your iPhone 5s, iPad, or iPod touch to 1-1-1970.  That is unless you’re under federal investigation and think this is easier than fighting to turn over your encryption key.

Learn more about this issue here.