Nokia and Microsoft form partnership

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by McBeck

Can somebody explain why Blackberry is so popular in the US? I guy I know got one for work and hated it - it just didnt work. Bad reception among other things

Blackberry was really introduced as a 'business phone' and was marketed as such. No one else had attempted to do this. To follow up on the idea of a business phone Blackberry loaded it with business type applications. It was at the time of inception a tool to conduct business as well as a 'status' type thing because you owned a Blackberry phone(these handsets were expensive if I remember correctly). Over time it really did become a business phone and I still see it as a business phone. The market has grown for Blackberry in the non-business types who want a phone for facebook and texting. Anyway, those that started with Blackberry have tended to stay with Blackberry over the years because they understand how it works, etc. I have a coworker who was a Blackberry user. He was switched to a Windows based phone and utterly hated it. Complained at any given moment about it. We switched him back to Blackberry. He was happy again.

This is what Blackberry basically replaced:



God Lord I think Gordon Gekko is picking up noise from the nebula Orion!!!