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They hold about 46% market share in South Africa (IOL[^]), so if you are targeting the local market here, you will make a mistake to overlook them.
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I have an iPhone 4s from the firm, but that's all my contact with smartphones at the moment. As user I don't have much experience with the apps (only 5 installed until now), about programming... I would like to learn mobile devices, but I have not much spare time to use with it, other things are higher in my priorities-list.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I am not able to follow. What exactly are you asking?
Danish 
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Liquid nitrogen
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Seriously, I know 3 people who ditched the blackberry for iPhone (1) and Android (2). I don't know anyone, personally, that uses Blackberry anymore, especially here at work.
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Blackberry or Cracyberry as know previously. I used it and RIM was ahead the whole smartphone era. I started using it around 10 years ago, it was my phone of choice (Blackberry BOLD) the first phone even with a "Mouse".
Then I moved to windows phone 6.5 and still use it. Now I am more interested in Android. Programmers will work for leading companies and alas to say RIM has been in the bottom of the barrel for too long.
Just adding my two cents.
Danish
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DANISHJAFFER wrote: alas to say RIM has been in the bottom of the barrel for too long.
It is always sad to me, to see a company or technology that was used so extensively, end up in the crapper. It would be nice to see Blackberry revamp and get with the program.
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These poll's have been pushing a lot towards device specific development latelly.
Currently I'm not aiming for mobile but my web applications may actually be used on those devices in a near future.
If the business is developing for the mobile, or if the main business is the mobile interface then yeah, native apps are the way to go (as Zuckerberg admited a while ago).
If on the other hand the business lives around the website and mobile suport is also needed, then I believe that a mobile version of the website may be, in most cases, the best approach.
As for the BB... don't know... deppends on the target countries and markets I guess.
One thing is for sure, if your target users use the device you better support it 
Cheers!
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There's a lot of stuff going on and I find it interesting to see what developers are doing in specific areas.
AlexCode wrote: native apps are the way to go (as Zuckerberg admited a while ago).
I'm not convinced.
AlexCode wrote: One thing is for sure, if your target users use the device you better support it
Of that, yes, I'm convinced!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The discussion 'native vs. web' barely continues at my employer, with native winning. That is, native is winning for 1 or 2 platforms. The web sounds like a much better approach with its support over multiple platforms without needing whole separate development teams and duplicated effort.
Personally, with regard to Zuckerberg's comment, I prefer FB's web interface over their native app, which I no longer use.
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Blacberry has lost its position long time back as a choice for corporates... If Windows8 Mobile lives upto expectation, it may well replace it to make a uniform platform (exchange server, outlook & windows8 mobile)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality!!!
http://aniruddhaloya.blogspot.com
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Exactly!
Well said.
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As much as I would like to be wrong, I think Win 8 is the last MS hope to be relevant. They seems to pretty much lost the phone market with it's huge audience/market share. They are competing for the tablet market. With Surface they are offering a novel approach of merging notepads and tablets but, I think, at best they are vying to stay in the top 3 - next to iOS and Android. Time will tell. But in the mean time I would suggest to dust up your Java and Objective-C skills.
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I agree! at least for the smartphone market, this looks like make or break opportunity for them. Tablets is still a new space with not much significant share for android (as compared to phones) and there they have a good chance to gain share. As for phones, I still think Enterprises would be their primary hope, if they adopt Windows8 it will means curtains for Blackberry and a strong customer base for MSFT.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality!!!
http://aniruddhaloya.blogspot.com
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I will stop coding if all that is left is an Apple product. Unless they change their business model and change their pricing strategy. You can call me a fan boi if you want. I am really not. I will develop for any environment that isn't Apple. I just think Apple is over priced and closes off there systems to much.
I personally don't think Microsoft is going out of business any time soon. I remember in the late 90's and early 00's every one thought IBM was on the way out too and they seem to have stuck around pretty well.
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I think you are mixing business and pleasure. As much as I NEED MacBook, I refuse to pay for it struggling with VMWare. But I'm a whore (excuse me for language) - I'll program whatever pays the bills, even if it something I ideologically don't agree with.
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I will just find something new to do that brings me as much joy as programming does. I don't view programming as business. I enjoy doing it so it is fun to me. When it starts seeming like work to me I will just move on and find something new that brings me pleasure to do and hopefully someone will pay me to do that instead. Life is to short to me to spend my life working. As long as I am doing something I enjoy I am happy. And I wouldn't be happy developing on Apple products.
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