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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

BlackBerry also lost because of the ecosystem, the App Store had so much more to offer than BlackBerry did. Also BlackBerry stuck to their physical keyboard, which in hindsight was a bad idea.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Are you kidding? I would kill for modern phone with Blackberry keyboard. I mean there are couple of nice options now but nothing works with deGoogled OSes and I'm definitely not going back to stock Android... But I loved all BB phones, even the Android ones. The keyboards worked great and had sooo many great features. They had some models without keyboard but they just were not able to compete in Android market.

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I would kill a man to get my physical keyboard back.

I just want a Blackberry Perl with a modern processor. That's all I want. Compact, comfortable in my hand, intuitive physical navigation and typing. I'd pay a premium to get those "primitive " phone features back.

Apps are overrated. I'm ready to be done with the app ecosystem. Websites can tell the difference between a desktop and mobile user now, so why do I need a banking app on my phone when going to the bank's website should be a functionally identical user experience?

The only thing app stores have done is create walled gardens that are now difficult to escape from and create anti-competitive advantages for Google and Apple.