Business Blaze Meme Count.... Script Slaps: 1 Script Whacks (less hard than Slaps): 3 Bada-boom-boom-Tshhh: 1 Interesting, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... : 1 Peoples reflections on the back wall reflected in the sunlight as they walk past outside (first seen at 10:50): 5 My personal take on this is that at the time that Simon was still pooping in his nappy (daipers for the Americans), Blackberry's were incredible leading edge technology. No doubt Psion are or were another company that could have still been with us and not making terrible car software if history had been different, but... Oh yes, and android rules. Just my own personal view...
The first shadow of someone walking past is actually at 5:21... I double checked because this is important stuff! Update: there's another shadow at 7:52
I'm here for the relaxed attitude. Love your other channels, but this channel is like sitting down with a friend who just loves bashing companies for having done stupid shit. And I love that.
I used to work there - I don't miss the Christmas "How's your RIM job going? Still getting paid well for your RIM job?" Thanks family. You're hilarious.
I was thinking it in jest. It makes me feel better about the future of humanity that it manifested. (I'll take any excuse to feel better about the future of humanity! #2020)
Handing Simon a brand new script and having him just read it on video seems like a bad idea on paper at first, but it really isn't, you make it work and you make it work well.
Puppet Guy I think if he hadn’t perfected the “radio voice” informative video in so many avenues it would be awkward. I feel like he’s hanging out with me in BB, where he is just talking to me in the other videos. Which he does better then anyone else, IMHO. He really pulls it the hell off!
@@EMurph42 it's kinda weird that his other videos are presented in such a way and this one completely shits on the face of his other channels. It's kinda like watching Brian Williams rap, you get used to the very serious and intelligent persona where everything is thought out and presented with a high presentational value and this one is just like "fuck it. Simon, here's a script... Knock yourself out.... Literally"... It's a nice change of pace if I'm being honest. He seems to really enjoy doing these, not that he seems miserable on his other channels or anything but he's able to let his actual personality shine and his personality is nothing like I expected, and I mean that in the best way possible
The Oscars give out those insanely expensive gift baskets to all nominees, all presenters, plus the winners get another more insanely expensive one. New and small businesses really compete to get their products in the gift baskets. It was a big deal a couple years ago when a Canadian woman who sold knitted hats on Etsy got a request to put her hats in the gift baskets. I actually think a story on the gift baskets and the gift suites where companies give out lots and lots of expensive product (including jewellery and electronics) would be really interesting. Or just a story on how much free product companies give to celebrities and "influencers" and how many sales that actually translates into for them.
The gift baskets aren't actually affiliated with the Oscars and the Oscars dont like them. They don't get them on the night, they get them like weeks earlier and the Oscars has tried to stop them the last few years. They also only give them to the top hundred nominees. Tech nominees don't get them. The gifting suite is just items from the sponsors.
@@medes5597 I remember when the gifting suites just gave out small samples, now some of them give away things worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. I remember seeing Cameron Diaz talk about a clothing sponsor who was giving out jeans and shirts at an event and that's how she did her Christmas shopping, by getting freebies for everyone she knew. That pissed me off so much that a multi millionaire would do something that greasy!! I didn't realize that the Oscar organizers didn't actually have anything to do with the baskets. I wonder who actually puts them together and gives them out? I know that not all of the nominees and winners keep them. I read that George Clooney donates his so it can be auctioned off for charity. And I can't remember who it was, but a few years ago someone (I think an actor) gave his to his limo driver.
@@Terri_MacKay jesus christ, that's so greedy. Seth Macfarlane spoke about how he literally sends things back to companies or sends them a cheque because if he wants their product, he'll pay for it and if he doesn't, he doesn't want to waste their money. He says that way he doesn't feel like he's taking advantage or that they expect something from him in return - and then she's just like "yeah I'll have everything so I can save money because I clearly don't have enough of it". Ugh. There was an article maybe two years ago in the Hollywood Reporter that said the gift bags/baskets/whatever they're officially called were organised by a marketing firm who hand picked about half of the stuff and the other half was companies who paid a lot of money to get into the bag, which basically both paid for the other stuff they had selected *and* paid them for putting it together. It went into detail about how the academy has got less tolerant of them as the Oscars gifting suite has gotten more and more elaborate and more and more lucrative and how they went from being given out on the night, to being given out within their limo for the night to what it is now which can be like weeks earlier. Also speaking of doing different things with them, apparently last year or the year before, Grimes ended up with 4 of them because she went around saying she hadn't got one despite getting an Oscars invite and so various famous people gave her theirs and then the company heard she was asking people and sent her one. So she had like $800,000 worth of stuff or something ridiculous.
That's better than the Hummingbird Cake at the old tea shop I used to work at. Staff would just shout "I NEED ANOTHER HUMMER!!" through the kitchen all day long. lol
I worked for RIM from 2008 to 2010. Everything that was outlined in this video about the BlackBerry devices and its downfall is correct. So very late to the party when full screen devices became the norm and the competing BB devices were just garbage. And the running joke with everyone was when you told them you worked for RIM, they would say: ha ha! You got a RIM job!
Christopher Burke True, Blackberrys were more of a business tool. Whereas the iphone and the like were more for entertainment. I worked for a corporation where they issued us a Blackberry for company use. I had an iphone, but we were barred from using them for corporate communication or emails. Blackberrys had more security than all other mobile devices, therefore less likely to get hacked.
@@gqsmooth1969 plague ... you know? Black Plague? Plague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.
Danny missed the turning point. It wasn't the introduction of the smart phones per se, although Blackberry lost handily for it, and no, I never saw that many Blackberries among teenagers, but I did among the young professionals and up for a very good reason: encryption. It was during this time that the public was pretty much informed that your standard phone could be hijacked and listened on if you had the right equipment, and aside from police, the people who had the right equipment were reporters. Suddenly executives and politicians demanded secure communications, provided by a private server with an encryption system that no government had access to, even the Canadian government where RIM and Blackberry were located. And for a while all was good, until it became noticed that citizens in "troubled" countries were using the Blackberries without fear of being listened in by their own government. Bans were announced, deals were made, and to continue selling phones in such countries, Blackberry gave up their encryption. Nearly overnight, the phones were regarded as compromised and dropped including, but nowhere limited to, by the entire U.S. government. Without the encryption strengths the Blackberry was a poor competitor to the already more powerful smart phones and the rest, as they say, is history.
yup, they gave encryption keys to Saudi and a few other `questionable` regimes and iirc it resulted in people being jailed/tortured/killed as dissidents were using BBM thinking it was secure. The negative reaction when the press published details of these shady deals totally destroyed RIM`s credibility right at the time Apple, Microsoft and Google were gaining traction. Im sure theres a lesson to be learned there.
Plus the second shadow, the third, and even...the fourth? (I'm not going back to look and marker the appearances, but I was sure that I wasn't the only one to notice the shadows, especially since Simon pointed out the whole sunlight thing.)
I like how the business blaze videos sometimes have 3 different people's inputs: Simon, Danny and Samuel. Almost like watching a debate with only one person actually there.
@@brainblaze6526 Maybe, but Apple and Samsung are the only two I've seen display outright contempt for their customers and treat incompatibility as a feature.
Woohoo, I'm a legend again! :-D Great video! (On a side note: Several months ago , when I first watched the Top Tenz videos, the SW neon logo on the wall initially confused me. It looks extremely similar to the logo of a community college I worked for in east Tennessee: Walters State. I couldn't figure out why someone in the UK would have the WS logo of this college. Then I learned the host is Simon Whistler and confusion was resolved. Just wanted to share this...) Stay healthy, everyone!
If you only ever pronounce any words the way they were ORIGINALLY pronounced, Old English, pre-great vowel shift, then I'll pronounce GIF as Jif. Deal?
@Simon - Everyone in Canada (anyway) called it "RIM" and not "R. I. M." - everyone knew what you meant when you said RIM, it meant Research in Motion, but also fully inter changeable with "Blackberry".
@@fatrabbitphoto We sure can... add Nortel to the conversation also! I LOVED Nokia phones, I had them all, and even was using a Nokia for phone and blackberry for email at the same time.... I was with Nokia to the end, and then Blackberry to the end... Doing iPhone now, no end in site for them,
I'm typing this on a BlackBerry. The weird thing is I routinely get "I miss real keyboards" comments. But no one bought them even after the merge with Android software. If they would've done the change sooner with more than $5 in advertising, it might have saved them phone wise.
I had a real keyboard in my phone in 2012 but I don't think it was a Blackberry. The entire back of the phone flipped down to reveal the buttons, so it could be used like a regular smart phone or one with a keyboard. I loved it since touch keyboards didn't work very well for me back then. I'm glad they've improved so much because I think I'd go crazy if they were still that bad. It's our only option anymore.
Touchscreen is simply awful compared to buttons for typing. My typing speed goes up tremendously with buttons. I remember it used to be a thing to be a speed texter. Now people do emoji's because it takes too long to type. Touchscreen does win out for interactivity and ease of use, however.
The only way to quickly and moderately accurately type on glass is swipe typing, you just need to let go of caring about the difference between in & on; if & of. Though most phones don't let you swipe type swears for ducks sake!
I wish your other channels were as good as business blaze. This channel is the best and most entertaining for me. I find that the other channels I start tuning out because they aren't as engaging as business blaze
The letter G in GIF stands for “Graphic”. Which starts with a hard G sound as in great, grand, group etc. So therefore it’s GIF not Jif so you are correct Simon. 👍🏻😁
@@izzojoseph2 vox populi spoke gif so the creator is irrelevant what do you cal 'em dam things? kleenex? hoover? jello? pingpong? qtip?vaseline? velcro?
loved it ya'll... and to that user that says he can not take you seriously now after watching you here, I get more enjoyment thinking about what your comments would be on the other channels after watching here... Love this channel! I would love to see one like this on other subjects personally!
Early adopter of the BlackBerry here.I was a very busy mom with lots of kids playing soccer. Cancellations and location changes were always sent by email and I would have had no way to get them without tl my BB!
BlackBerry Pearl was my old phone. My work had a server for them then went to iPhone setup. I remember when you were super cool with a bag phone in your center console of your car. Nokia had one the fit the Jeep Cherokee like a glove. I remember customizing my blackberry with new color, replacing the wheel, the screen other parts were replaceable cheaply. Now you have to replace the iPhone for the most part. Screen was $20, $5 for wheel, $15 battery it was awesome. It was nice being able to text without looking at the phone lol.
We now know that Simon's worst enemy isn't pyramids or getting a paper cut from hitting he script, his true worst enemy is the sun, or poorly placed cars.
I will say this has turned into my favorite of your channels.Visual Politik is a favorite also.LOve all your channels though.Like seeing your real personality in Blaze.Keep making and i will keep watching and smashing that like button.
I love all your channels. This more casual video layout is awesome, because you are a real person in here, and you're professional on other channels, so we get the many sides of Simon :D
There are models of phones coming in 2020 with physical keyboards. It might only be a briefly lived comeback. The phone manufacturer is called TCL, and I am not sure if this is anything more than a niche company like Vertu. I know nothing! Apple certainly is not getting this any time soon.
@Patrick Hudson I posted about 20 seconds early, and it was never explained what TCL is outside of Blackberry. I am normally one of those people who post early, but I partially assumed, incorrectly, that TCL would not be mentioned at all. The only thing I had ever heard of TCL is that they were planning to release a line of Android phones with physical keyboards sometime around the end of Q2 2020. Since this company is essentially just releasing their version of the Blackberry phone they previously produced, it is not such a big deal. TCL is apparently not like Vertu in any way!
"The overwhelming majority of users prefer touchscreen keyboards..." and yet literally every individual I've heard express an opinion, including Danny and Simon, prefers real ones.
I had a Sega Game Gear. My dad chose it because it had a color screen. It was years before Game Boy had color screens. Didn't save the Game Gear at all
Yeah, my wife told me it was jif, so when I said it my kids told me 'get with the times dad, it's gif" I'm going with my technologically advanced kids and everyone else can bug off.
I just say Gif because I like the unnecessary rage people have about it as well as the dad pun potential it has come someone's birthday or the holidays.
As it so happens, I just bought a BlackBerry Torch 9810 second-hand on E-bay a couple of weeks ago. Moved back to good old BB after years using touch screen phones and really love it! That said, their full touch screen models didn't do anything for me at all. Just love that scroll / jog button.
I've been using the very same blackberry I purchased in 2010. My cell provider isn't very happy about it, something about "we don't want to support these devices any longer," but I haven't let a silly idea like that keep me from enjoying those glorious _physical_ buttons.
Simon: NO ONE WATCHES BUSINESS BLAZE! Reality: 16,000 views in a couple hours. His standards are so high his next video should be entitled dude where’s my TH-cam channel?
Does anyone remember that blackberry that had a massive touch screen, that you slid up (while holding the phone normally) to expose a full keyboard? What was that called? My friend had one and I loved it! I had a Samsung T-456 (yes thats it’s name) that slid sideways to expose a keyboard, but it was CRAP compared to hers lol
Steve Mclean I’m pretty sure we’re talking about different things I think you’re talking about the transfer case now I’m talking about electronic locking differentials or air locking differentials to lock both tires on an axle together And your original statement I think you meant to say locking hubs and not differential that’s where my confusion came in at either rate it doesn’t matter like you said it’s business blaze have a good day sir in lovely England
Writing this from the city where BlackBerry’s were invented. It’s odd to go and see the buildings being used by other companies. Also it is pronounced Rim not R.I.M. When they shut down and a ton of people got laid off it was hard on the local economy. But will say we have a ton of cool startups that happened. Not sure anyone else will care but loved the H.A.L reference. The actor who voiced H.A.L was from the same region. He passed away here back home at St. Mary’s Hospital. Nice little connection that made me happy. LOL great job Sam!
Business Blaze 10:33 it’s not assumptive at all, your true followers have already seen it my Lord. What should we do next to please the great TH-cam goddess algorithma? What does Simon say?
The shadows of people walking by outside of the window are at a weird angle so that it seems like you’re in a basement or in a room just slightly below street level. It stood out to me because I’m from Florida. We don’t have basements in Florida. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the sea level and flooding.
I don't really mind either way. If someone was like: "Simon, you have to use Android forever." I'd be like, "Alright then, does it have TH-cam?" And then I'd get the fuck on with my life.
Simon is an absolute legend, and one of the very few content generators that I'll watch more than once. Love the voice, love the humor, worship the beard.
I actually had a Priv (and before that, a Passport and a Torch 9800) and I loved it with a few exceptions. The curved screen meant dropping it almost guaranteed breaking the exorbitant display. Also despite keeping the security patches up to date, they didn't update much the Android version. The Snapdragon 800 sieries of the time heated up quickly and was outdated and BB were too stubborn to allow us to root it and install our own system. The touch-sensitive keyboard felt great, the 16MP camera snapped excellent photos (if you had the patience to wait for it) and the slider was satisfying.
TH-cam counts it as just an interaction so it is all the same for the creators. I love it when TH-camrs are like, "Don't like it?DISLIKE MY VIDEO BITCHES!" Then people bitch in the comments while the TH-camr sits back and enjoys the cash flow
10:06 You are absolutely right about calling it Gif and not Jif, and anyone who contradicts you is *WRONG.* Also, if you're interested in the whole Yamaha thing, maybe Danny could look into Zaibatsus and how/why they exist.
I agree with you but for both sides: For gif: it's spelt that way, the first sound in the decode is a hard G For jif: the guy who came up with it says he meant it to be that way so as to imply it was fast
I grew up in Waterloo, Ont and went to UWaterloo, from where a lot of RIM's interns, and subsequently, employees, hailed. We called those RIM jobs. Hope that gave everyone a chuckle 😁
I use a key2! (For work lol). I honestly love it. If the camera was better, it use it for my daily phone. The way the phone works and is set up is perfect. The scrolling feature over the keyboard is a throwback to the little ball
What made BlackBerry such a business beast was its instant messaging. It became a back channel in companies. Only the top level exec's would have them (initially) and using Rim's server they bypassed corporate IT departments. As they became more common their cachet declined. They required a monthly fee for their messaging capability. The death knell was an internal conflict at RIM that had them removing capabilities to avoid conflicting with legacy devices. That led to the final model cratering.
Hey Simon, I remember the Blackberry of 2002. It was marketed more for businessmen, at that time. The popular craze came after they made phones cheap enough for teens and young adults.
I live in Waterloo, and a lot of my friends used to work for RIM back i the day. Yes, it was generally pronounced as "rim", and yes, it was an ongoing joke that university of Waterloo computer engineering co-op students would want nothing more than to "get a RIM job" for their co-op term. We were sorely disappointed when they dropped the name, although most of us in town still refer to it as RIM because, well, it's RIM! Most of my friends who worked there were coaxed away by the likes of Google and others, although I still have a couple of friends who work there. Although BlackBerry no longer makes hardware, it did licence the name BlackBerry to TCL for their handsets. I currently have a BlackBerry KeyOne, which is a fantastic device. I did have one of the PRIV phones, and it was pretty great except that it had a problem with the battery heating up during use. The PRIV was the first of the Android BlackBerry devices. I had a Z10, which was the last of the BlackBerry OS devices. Their OS was great for stability and functionality, but absolutely did suffer once people stopped making apps for it. by then, the OS was supposed to be able to sideload Android apps, but they didn't work properly. Lazaridis is pronounced Lah-zah-REE-dis. One of his biggest mistakes was that he decided that BlackBerry devices would be exclusively for business use. While in university, my husband's friend got a RIM job and showed off one of the very early devices. They asked if he could write Tetris for it, and a couple of days later the friend showed off the Tetris game he had programmed for it. However, he said it nearly got him fired, because Lazaridis found out about it and announced loudly at the office that anyone caught writing games for any BlackBerry would be fired on the spot. Later, as the iPhone gained popularity due to its many fun apps. Lazaridis relented and the company tried to play catch-up. Another mistake was that RIM's founders started out with a packet radio system, which saved battery power by having the cell tower signal the device to wake up rather than the device constantly pinging the tower. Lazaridis thought it should be used for truck telemetry, but nobody was interested in it. When he started putting it in pagers and phones, it did well, but he refused to licence the technology to other mobile makers. Had he done so, he would have gotten royalties from every text and call ever sent. Instead, competitors developed their own systems an eventually packet radio went out of use altogether in favour of industry standards. There was also the terrible mistake of making the BlackBerry Playbook. Woefully underpowered and running the QNX operating system, it had extremely limited usefulness and very few apps that worked with it. Today, BlackBerry makes a lot of software for automotive screen interfaces, but now many vehicles are using Google and Apple systems instead so even that is waning. TCL announced recently that it would be making no more BlackBerry devices. I don't know where the company is going from here.
I admire the restraint that is shown on the other channels Simon does, since now I know how truly sarcastic and witty he is naturally. Must be hard work to read some of those other scripts with a straight face.
How did I miss this one!?!? I STILL mourn my Blackberry, & I never cared that I was the odd one out at the time....tho was well past the supposed 2002 peak when I was using it & despite being mocked I used it until my last model would no longer work on my mobile plan (could've be due to being in NZ cuz my US relatives still had them a bit longer). Besides the privacy, I miss the fact that I could LEGIT message w/o looking at my phone & 100% by feel w/90-95% accuracy! Yeah, I'm seriously gonna go cry over this loss, AGAIN! ....once it was possible to text & drive w/o looking at your phone & w/o being recorded & tracked at the same time. :'-(
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Business Blaze Meme Count....
Script Slaps: 1
Script Whacks (less hard than Slaps): 3
Bada-boom-boom-Tshhh: 1
Interesting, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... : 1
Peoples reflections on the back wall reflected in the sunlight as they walk past outside (first seen at 10:50): 5
My personal take on this is that at the time that Simon was still pooping in his nappy (daipers for the Americans), Blackberry's were incredible leading edge technology. No doubt Psion are or were another company that could have still been with us and not making terrible car software if history had been different, but... Oh yes, and android rules. Just my own personal view...
The first shadow of someone walking past is actually at 5:21... I double checked because this is important stuff!
Update: there's another shadow at 7:52
@@hudsoncampbell5064 I missed them. Thanks for the correction. I was more busy watching for script slaps.
@@brianjrichman understandable, it's at least a 2 man job to keep up with this stuff, you're doing gods work son.
How many "Smash That 'dislike' Button"s? 5? I think. That's got to be a thing.
May I suggest adding "smash that dislike button" as a Simon Blaze meme?
"You're here for business"
Nah, I'm here for Simons witty commentary. Also jabs at Zuckerberg.
Yeah. You're probably right. No one is here for business.
And the people who are, are usually disappointed.
I'm here for the relaxed attitude. Love your other channels, but this channel is like sitting down with a friend who just loves bashing companies for having done stupid shit. And I love that.
This is my favorite Simon, we're the same age and he's constantly reminding me through his various references!
I like all the itiretaions of the Simons, but I too prefer the Boy with the Blaze.
He reminds me that even people in their 30's are millenials through his references, because i get most of them despite being in my mid 20s
I like the format, ignore the complainers.
Darn tootin
Don't ignore the complainers! They're very entertaining! You just have to handle them right, sort of like Conan's I Found an Error segments.
@@613aristocrat They are the anti-legends and they must be defeated.
I agree! Format is great 👍 also yes Simon I remember blackberry...they sucked
I like all the channels. Different is good variety is good
I used to work there - I don't miss the Christmas
"How's your RIM job going? Still getting paid well for your RIM job?"
Thanks family. You're hilarious.
Hahahah, excellent.
I miss the ice cream days 😄
@@bailmark Ice cream Friday's were the best.
I was thinking it in jest. It makes me feel better about the future of humanity that it manifested.
(I'll take any excuse to feel better about the future of humanity! #2020)
Handing Simon a brand new script and having him just read it on video seems like a bad idea on paper at first, but it really isn't, you make it work and you make it work well.
Puppet Guy I think if he hadn’t perfected the “radio voice” informative video in so many avenues it would be awkward. I feel like he’s hanging out with me in BB, where he is just talking to me in the other videos. Which he does better then anyone else, IMHO. He really pulls it the hell off!
Thanks guys :)
@@EMurph42 it's kinda weird that his other videos are presented in such a way and this one completely shits on the face of his other channels. It's kinda like watching Brian Williams rap, you get used to the very serious and intelligent persona where everything is thought out and presented with a high presentational value and this one is just like "fuck it. Simon, here's a script... Knock yourself out.... Literally"...
It's a nice change of pace if I'm being honest. He seems to really enjoy doing these, not that he seems miserable on his other channels or anything but he's able to let his actual personality shine and his personality is nothing like I expected, and I mean that in the best way possible
"I'd rather troll you than promote my own stuff"
And with that he earned my subscription
The Oscars give out those insanely expensive gift baskets to all nominees, all presenters, plus the winners get another more insanely expensive one. New and small businesses really compete to get their products in the gift baskets.
It was a big deal a couple years ago when a Canadian woman who sold knitted hats on Etsy got a request to put her hats in the gift baskets.
I actually think a story on the gift baskets and the gift suites where companies give out lots and lots of expensive product (including jewellery and electronics) would be really interesting. Or just a story on how much free product companies give to celebrities and "influencers" and how many sales that actually translates into for them.
Yes. They get real 😎 gifts
I am rarely influenced but if you show me a lipstick colour that looks identical to the other 500 shades of nude I own... I will 100% buy it.
The gift baskets aren't actually affiliated with the Oscars and the Oscars dont like them. They don't get them on the night, they get them like weeks earlier and the Oscars has tried to stop them the last few years. They also only give them to the top hundred nominees. Tech nominees don't get them.
The gifting suite is just items from the sponsors.
@@medes5597 I remember when the gifting suites just gave out small samples, now some of them give away things worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. I remember seeing Cameron Diaz talk about a clothing sponsor who was giving out jeans and shirts at an event and that's how she did her Christmas shopping, by getting freebies for everyone she knew. That pissed me off so much that a multi millionaire would do something that greasy!!
I didn't realize that the Oscar organizers didn't actually have anything to do with the baskets. I wonder who actually puts them together and gives them out?
I know that not all of the nominees and winners keep them. I read that George Clooney donates his so it can be auctioned off for charity. And I can't remember who it was, but a few years ago someone (I think an actor) gave his to his limo driver.
@@Terri_MacKay jesus christ, that's so greedy. Seth Macfarlane spoke about how he literally sends things back to companies or sends them a cheque because if he wants their product, he'll pay for it and if he doesn't, he doesn't want to waste their money. He says that way he doesn't feel like he's taking advantage or that they expect something from him in return - and then she's just like "yeah I'll have everything so I can save money because I clearly don't have enough of it". Ugh.
There was an article maybe two years ago in the Hollywood Reporter that said the gift bags/baskets/whatever they're officially called were organised by a marketing firm who hand picked about half of the stuff and the other half was companies who paid a lot of money to get into the bag, which basically both paid for the other stuff they had selected *and* paid them for putting it together. It went into detail about how the academy has got less tolerant of them as the Oscars gifting suite has gotten more and more elaborate and more and more lucrative and how they went from being given out on the night, to being given out within their limo for the night to what it is now which can be like weeks earlier.
Also speaking of doing different things with them, apparently last year or the year before, Grimes ended up with 4 of them because she went around saying she hadn't got one despite getting an Oscars invite and so various famous people gave her theirs and then the company heard she was asking people and sent her one. So she had like $800,000 worth of stuff or something ridiculous.
My favorite instance of a BlackBerry fail was the posting of a job at r.i.m., the email was r.i.m.jobs.... lmao
Aaaand there it is, the rimjob joke(s) I came to the comments for!
That's mi in the corner!
John Glass that’s mi in the spotlight, Losing my religion
John Glass Trying to keep up with you, and I don’t know if I can do it
That's better than the Hummingbird Cake at the old tea shop I used to work at. Staff would just shout "I NEED ANOTHER HUMMER!!" through the kitchen all day long. lol
I FINALLY understood a OG reference😂😂
Does that mean I'm now finally a legend?
You have achieved legend status.
Welcome.
"dead and berried" BADUM-DUM-TSSS!!!
tSHSHSHSHHSHSHSHSHSHS
I worked for RIM from 2008 to 2010. Everything that was outlined in this video about the BlackBerry devices and its downfall is correct. So very late to the party when full screen devices became the norm and the competing BB devices were just garbage.
And the running joke with everyone was when you told them you worked for RIM, they would say: ha ha! You got a RIM job!
I wouldn't give up my KEY2 for any slab of glass.
Christopher Burke True, Blackberrys were more of a business tool. Whereas the iphone and the like were more for entertainment. I worked for a corporation where they issued us a Blackberry for company use. I had an iphone, but we were barred from using them for corporate communication or emails. Blackberrys had more security than all other mobile devices, therefore less likely to get hacked.
I was going to make a joke about the sun in England, but, after googling, found that Simon lives in Prague. PRAGUE OF ALL PLACES!!!
The women are hotter in Prague ;)
@@legallyfree2955 I'll have to take your word for it. The only woman I met from Prague looked like she had the plague. :rofl:
@@I_am_Allan would that be pronounced "plahg"?
@@gqsmooth1969 plague ... you know? Black Plague?
Plague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.
@@I_am_Allan it was a joke. Prague is pronounced "Prahg", so plague should be pronounced accordingly.
Danny missed the turning point. It wasn't the introduction of the smart phones per se, although Blackberry lost handily for it, and no, I never saw that many Blackberries among teenagers, but I did among the young professionals and up for a very good reason: encryption. It was during this time that the public was pretty much informed that your standard phone could be hijacked and listened on if you had the right equipment, and aside from police, the people who had the right equipment were reporters. Suddenly executives and politicians demanded secure communications, provided by a private server with an encryption system that no government had access to, even the Canadian government where RIM and Blackberry were located. And for a while all was good, until it became noticed that citizens in "troubled" countries were using the Blackberries without fear of being listened in by their own government. Bans were announced, deals were made, and to continue selling phones in such countries, Blackberry gave up their encryption. Nearly overnight, the phones were regarded as compromised and dropped including, but nowhere limited to, by the entire U.S. government.
Without the encryption strengths the Blackberry was a poor competitor to the already more powerful smart phones and the rest, as they say, is history.
yup, they gave encryption keys to Saudi and a few other `questionable` regimes and iirc it resulted in people being jailed/tortured/killed as dissidents were using BBM thinking it was secure. The negative reaction when the press published details of these shady deals totally destroyed RIM`s credibility right at the time Apple, Microsoft and Google were gaining traction. Im sure theres a lesson to be learned there.
The colorblindness was definitely a defect in Zuckerbots programming.
It's a feature, not a bug.
@@brainblaze6526 it just works...
Unless, like 10% of all men you are colourblind, then it's definitely not a defect.
Simon: I'm not paying $1500 for a gimmick
Also Simon: buys an iPhone
BADA BOOM BOOM TSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Shoutout to the shadow crossing the room at 5:23.
Yeah. Simon is stuck in his basement, and only sees other humans as shadows on his walls...
Plus the second shadow, the third, and even...the fourth? (I'm not going back to look and marker the appearances, but I was sure that I wasn't the only one to notice the shadows, especially since Simon pointed out the whole sunlight thing.)
Also another shadow at 13:10 lol
What shadows you guys? OH!! YOU MEAN THE GHOST GROUPIES!!!! 😁 Who used to use the technology Simon was talking about. OOHHH!!! I saw them, too.
I like how the business blaze videos sometimes have 3 different people's inputs: Simon, Danny and Samuel. Almost like watching a debate with only one person actually there.
Watch most of your channels. Enjoy them all. And enjoy the fact that this one is so relaxed and light hearted.
Keep it up
No, Simon, Samsung is just as bad as Apple. They're like two Doctor Evil clones fighting over who can be more evil.
Yeah, they all kinda suck. Agreed.
@@brainblaze6526 Maybe, but Apple and Samsung are the only two I've seen display outright contempt for their customers and treat incompatibility as a feature.
@jimmy You really miss polio that much?
Which one of them would be considered the most "Vegeta" like? That's the one I want.
Woohoo, I'm a legend again! :-D Great video! (On a side note: Several months ago , when I first watched the Top Tenz videos, the SW neon logo on the wall initially confused me. It looks extremely similar to the logo of a community college I worked for in east Tennessee: Walters State. I couldn't figure out why someone in the UK would have the WS logo of this college. Then I learned the host is Simon Whistler and confusion was resolved. Just wanted to share this...) Stay healthy, everyone!
The creator of the GIF format:
“It’s pronounced JIF”
Every person, animal and atom ever:
“YOU ARE WRONG”
haha u funny
Ill say jif when I receive a Christmas jift.
Indeed, Jif is a brand of peanut butter, Hard G bitches.
Its GIF. gef. GEF. not fucking jiffy peanut butter you fucking weirdo
If you only ever pronounce any words the way they were ORIGINALLY pronounced, Old English, pre-great vowel shift, then I'll pronounce GIF as Jif. Deal?
Jobs for children of the 80s in 30 years time: curators of the museum of lost technologies
You can probably do that now. Though, it may not be as impressive as "And here's the 2004 wing" since it'll be more like "Here's the 80's room"
I live near the BlackBerry company in Ontario Canada. Back when business was booming for them, we all joked about how much we'd like to get a RIM job.
@Simon - Everyone in Canada (anyway) called it "RIM" and not "R. I. M." - everyone knew what you meant when you said RIM, it meant Research in Motion, but also fully inter changeable with "Blackberry".
Us and Finland can reminisce about once being relevant when it comes to phone technology...
@@fatrabbitphoto We sure can... add Nortel to the conversation also! I LOVED Nokia phones, I had them all, and even was using a Nokia for phone and blackberry for email at the same time.... I was with Nokia to the end, and then Blackberry to the end... Doing iPhone now, no end in site for them,
Another great business blaze ...thank you Simon&Danny
Simon is all over TH-cam. Idk why I like him so much, but I’m not the only one...clearly. 🥰
:) thanks
I'm typing this on a BlackBerry. The weird thing is I routinely get "I miss real keyboards" comments. But no one bought them even after the merge with Android software. If they would've done the change sooner with more than $5 in advertising, it might have saved them phone wise.
I dont think they had more than a fiver, come that point.
I had a real keyboard in my phone in 2012 but I don't think it was a Blackberry. The entire back of the phone flipped down to reveal the buttons, so it could be used like a regular smart phone or one with a keyboard. I loved it since touch keyboards didn't work very well for me back then. I'm glad they've improved so much because I think I'd go crazy if they were still that bad. It's our only option anymore.
Touchscreen is simply awful compared to buttons for typing. My typing speed goes up tremendously with buttons. I remember it used to be a thing to be a speed texter. Now people do emoji's because it takes too long to type.
Touchscreen does win out for interactivity and ease of use, however.
Fuck touchscreens and button texters. I could murder you all in a text race with numbers... with one hand... AND... blindfolded...
Suck it.
@@spliffdelakong5422 good old T9
@@StephenButlerOne yup. Drove and sent text like a boss.
The only way to quickly and moderately accurately type on glass is swipe typing, you just need to let go of caring about the difference between in & on; if & of. Though most phones don't let you swipe type swears for ducks sake!
@@spliffdelakong5422 me too, however some one gave me a cheap phone to send a text off. It isn't like riding a bike lol.
this is by far my favorite of all your channels, and i watch a majority of them and have for years
Well, at least being sick means i get to comment first on Business Blaze.
you make me envious
Hope you're not sick with corona.
@@SteveMHN nah they mean sick as in gnarly and or rad lol
You've won,but at what cost..
Man, I totally love this channel the best out of all of yours. I love seeing your real personality. Makes me laugh my ass off.
I wish your other channels were as good as business blaze. This channel is the best and most entertaining for me. I find that the other channels I start tuning out because they aren't as engaging as business blaze
"YOU HAD TO TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS?? LOSERS!"
The credits in the middle of the video almost made me fall out of my chair. I love this channel!!!
I'm genuinely upset that you actually linked to your podcast, I was looking forward to being trolled
I like that you look forward to it.
Is that what masochism feels like
The troll was that you didnt get trolled like you were expecting 🤔
I needed this after a day of so much "news"; is better to laugh tears than cry them. Thanks, guta!
The letter G in GIF stands for “Graphic”. Which starts with a hard G sound as in great, grand, group etc. So therefore it’s GIF not Jif so you are correct Simon. 👍🏻😁
well yes but the creator still tries to push for yiff
tsartomato yiff is pronounced with a sound like yellow, or yawn, yard. Totally different to Jiff as in jaguar and journal.
@@alexhamilton4084
how.
naive.
The guy that invented the word calls for a soft G, so interpretation is irrelevant.
@@izzojoseph2 vox populi spoke gif so the creator is irrelevant
what do you cal 'em dam things? kleenex? hoover? jello? pingpong? qtip?vaseline? velcro?
Business blaze? More like demonetization speed run
Oh! So Simon DOES wear pants when he records!
I tend to skip the videos he does sitting down.
Only when I have to show my legs.
@@brainblaze6526 ew
I love Business Blaze the most among all your other channels, the tone is more fun and humor always helps with engagement and learning.
Here comes the sun!!!
*rolls around on the ground, screaming in pain*
Simon Whistler : Vampire Script Slayer
MY EYES!
Business Blaze LOOK!! LOOK WITH YOUR SPECIAL EYES!!!
I can see all of blue.
Business Blaze And the sky’s are grey
*AND THE SKIES ARE GREY!!!*
Was waiting for the 'Clockwork Orange' shot when you talked about making people watch.
"I'm not gonna spend $1500 on a gimmick" -iPhone users.
loved it ya'll... and to that user that says he can not take you seriously now after watching you here, I get more enjoyment thinking about what your comments would be on the other channels after watching here... Love this channel! I would love to see one like this on other subjects personally!
Simon: this is business blaze, you're here for business
me: I'm here for the script slaps, and the BA DA BOOM BOOM TSH
Early adopter of the BlackBerry here.I was a very busy mom with lots of kids playing soccer. Cancellations and location changes were always sent by email and I would have had no way to get them without tl my BB!
Business Blaze is my favorite SW channel!
Thanks :)
BlackBerry Pearl was my old phone. My work had a server for them then went to iPhone setup. I remember when you were super cool with a bag phone in your center console of your car. Nokia had one the fit the Jeep Cherokee like a glove. I remember customizing my blackberry with new color, replacing the wheel, the screen other parts were replaceable cheaply. Now you have to replace the iPhone for the most part. Screen was $20, $5 for wheel, $15 battery it was awesome. It was nice being able to text without looking at the phone lol.
We now know that Simon's worst enemy isn't pyramids or getting a paper cut from hitting he script, his true worst enemy is the sun, or poorly placed cars.
Hah ( : thank you
it's actually android
I will say this has turned into my favorite of your channels.Visual Politik is a favorite also.LOve all your channels though.Like seeing your real personality in Blaze.Keep making and i will keep watching and smashing that like button.
I know I've said this before, but I love this channel.
~OG Legend
Legend.
I love all your channels. This more casual video layout is awesome, because you are a real person in here, and you're professional on other channels, so we get the many sides of Simon :D
Danny thinks the physical keyboard will make a comeback...how long has he been in your basement again, Simon?
Way too long.
There are models of phones coming in 2020 with physical keyboards. It might only be a briefly lived comeback. The phone manufacturer is called TCL, and I am not sure if this is anything more than a niche company like Vertu. I know nothing!
Apple certainly is not getting this any time soon.
@Patrick Hudson
I posted about 20 seconds early, and it was never explained what TCL is outside of Blackberry.
I am normally one of those people who post early, but I partially assumed, incorrectly, that TCL would not be mentioned at all. The only thing I had ever heard of TCL is that they were planning to release a line of Android phones with physical keyboards sometime around the end of Q2 2020. Since this company is essentially just releasing their version of the Blackberry phone they previously produced, it is not such a big deal.
TCL is apparently not like Vertu in any way!
@Patrick Hudson
I did, but I am also too aware my mistake.
Simon's willingness to overpay for a mobile device is LEGENDARY
Blackberry was the best for texting. Touch screens suck!! The Nokia S70 WAS the bomb too.
It wasn't a blackberry, but I had a phone with a slide out keyboard. I LOVED it for texting!
I agree. And the first gen Windows phones were the most responsive phones! I loved their variety of Apps!
This has quickly become my favorite of Simon's channels.
"The overwhelming majority of users prefer touchscreen keyboards..." and yet literally every individual I've heard express an opinion, including Danny and Simon, prefers real ones.
I may or may not binge watch the many different videos you guys put out...
The N-gage was basically the PSP before that was a thing.
And guess what, they both eventually failed.
the PSP actually did halfway decently in the US. The Vita, however, flopped on launch.
@@kirknay did great in japan ~
PSP was pretty cool. Had the first gen one back in the day.
I had a Sega Game Gear. My dad chose it because it had a color screen. It was years before Game Boy had color screens. Didn't save the Game Gear at all
Just adore this channel and Simon has an amazing sense of humour.
Yeah, my wife told me it was jif, so when I said it my kids told me 'get with the times dad, it's gif" I'm going with my technologically advanced kids and everyone else can bug off.
The GIF vs JIF debates is strong enough with enough history to warrant a Today I found out.
@Kevin Ley Jraphics interchange format, you pleb.
I just say Gif because I like the unnecessary rage people have about it as well as the dad pun potential it has come someone's birthday or the holidays.
As it so happens, I just bought a BlackBerry Torch 9810 second-hand on E-bay a couple of weeks ago. Moved back to good old BB after years using touch screen phones and really love it! That said, their full touch screen models didn't do anything for me at all. Just love that scroll / jog button.
"Go ahead and smash that dislike button, I already got your money."
I've been using the very same blackberry I purchased in 2010. My cell provider isn't very happy about it, something about "we don't want to support these devices any longer," but I haven't let a silly idea like that keep me from enjoying those glorious _physical_ buttons.
Simon: NO ONE WATCHES BUSINESS BLAZE!
Reality: 16,000 views in a couple hours.
His standards are so high his next video should be entitled dude where’s my TH-cam channel?
It's all relative I suppose. Although this channel has been getting a lot more love lately.
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!! Danny's scripts read by a laid back Simon=BRILLIANT!!!!
Thanks :)
Does anyone remember that blackberry that had a massive touch screen, that you slid up (while holding the phone normally) to expose a full keyboard? What was that called? My friend had one and I loved it! I had a Samsung T-456 (yes thats it’s name) that slid sideways to expose a keyboard, but it was CRAP compared to hers lol
The BlackBerry Priv from 2015?
Blackberry Last Gasp.
I LOVED THAT and wish I still had it!
Simon in other TH-cam channels: professor Simon
Simon in Business Blaze: Bro Simon
I’ll take bro Simon every day of the week
I think I'm gonna be an OG Legend & get a SW tattoo! 🤟
legendary.
Of all your channels, I love this one the most!!!
You actually have a LAND ROVER?
I used to think you were smart.
Doby Pilgrim haha right! He bags on Android, but drives a Land Rover
It's a Range Rover. I quite like it. Other than its technical nonsense.
@Steve Mclean did you miss where he said it threw a fit and refused to start?
Certainly not a classic
Steve Mclean you mean get out and lock the hubs? The diff Lock is almost always just a switch on the dash
Steve Mclean I’m pretty sure we’re talking about different things I think you’re talking about the transfer case now I’m talking about electronic locking differentials or air locking differentials to lock both tires on an axle together And your original statement I think you meant to say locking hubs and not differential that’s where my confusion came in at either rate it doesn’t matter like you said it’s business blaze have a good day sir in lovely England
This channel is a comedy gold collaboration.
Best. Birthday. Present. Ever.
Business Blaze ❤
/slaps script
"Read them, comment on them." Smack them around a bit like a $2 hooer
Simon never envisioned having so many stalkers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
@@fastinradfordable no, no he didn't
@Saziitats 🙃🥳 thank you
@@spliffdelakong5422 thanks you so much
Writing this from the city where BlackBerry’s were invented. It’s odd to go and see the buildings being used by other companies. Also it is pronounced Rim not R.I.M. When they shut down and a ton of people got laid off it was hard on the local economy. But will say we have a ton of cool startups that happened. Not sure anyone else will care but loved the H.A.L reference. The actor who voiced H.A.L was from the same region. He passed away here back home at St. Mary’s Hospital. Nice little connection that made me happy. LOL great job Sam!
9:47 more people on the internet need to embrace this philosophy. I think I’m going to start a cult. Name 🤔 Simon Says 🙌🏾. All hail Simon. 😂😂
Under my eye.
Business Blaze 10:33 it’s not assumptive at all, your true followers have already seen it my Lord. What should we do next to please the great TH-cam goddess algorithma? What does Simon say?
The shadows of people walking by outside of the window are at a weird angle so that it seems like you’re in a basement or in a room just slightly below street level. It stood out to me because I’m from Florida. We don’t have basements in Florida. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the sea level and flooding.
As a samsung user, I cant smash the dislike button because I'm a better person than that.
I agree Danny, I miss the solid keyboards on phones of old!
How do you really feel about Android devices Simon?
I like and readily use my Android. I even watch 4/5 of your channels on it. Carry on.
I don't really mind either way. If someone was like: "Simon, you have to use Android forever." I'd be like, "Alright then, does it have TH-cam?" And then I'd get the fuck on with my life.
Simon is an absolute legend, and one of the very few content generators that I'll watch more than once. Love the voice, love the humor, worship the beard.
I like potty mouth Simon! 🙊
Potty mouth Simon is best Simon. Also I absolutely love his reactions to businesses doing messed up shit.
Research has shown that potty mouthed individuals are actually more honest!
I actually had a Priv (and before that, a Passport and a Torch 9800) and I loved it with a few exceptions. The curved screen meant dropping it almost guaranteed breaking the exorbitant display. Also despite keeping the security patches up to date, they didn't update much the Android version. The Snapdragon 800 sieries of the time heated up quickly and was outdated and BB were too stubborn to allow us to root it and install our own system. The touch-sensitive keyboard felt great, the 16MP camera snapped excellent photos (if you had the patience to wait for it) and the slider was satisfying.
Simon: Smash that dislike button, nobody cares.
Me: *reluctantly hits dislike* Uhm but does it, we must test this.
TH-cam counts it as just an interaction so it is all the same for the creators. I love it when TH-camrs are like, "Don't like it?DISLIKE MY VIDEO BITCHES!" Then people bitch in the comments while the TH-camr sits back and enjoys the cash flow
Simon, your shirt and coat game are on point in this video.
Topic suggestion: The paperless office.
@2:40, I feel your pain Danny.
I hate using Touch Screens for ANYTHING!
:(
Just for the record Simon.....by my standards you are a swell ole chap.
10:06 You are absolutely right about calling it Gif and not Jif, and anyone who contradicts you is *WRONG.*
Also, if you're interested in the whole Yamaha thing, maybe Danny could look into Zaibatsus and how/why they exist.
On the most important note of the video, its Gif not Jif.
You dont say Jraphic Interchange Format
Sounds like the Jurassic version of the image format.
I agree with you but for both sides:
For gif: it's spelt that way, the first sound in the decode is a hard G
For jif: the guy who came up with it says he meant it to be that way so as to imply it was fast
Thanks as always sir! Absolutely gold you need an Emmy or something, hell a T.V show on primetime even.
I watched to the end, smashed the like button, and commented...
...because Sam is a legend.
I grew up in Waterloo, Ont and went to UWaterloo, from where a lot of RIM's interns, and subsequently, employees, hailed. We called those RIM jobs. Hope that gave everyone a chuckle 😁
I use a key2! (For work lol). I honestly love it. If the camera was better, it use it for my daily phone. The way the phone works and is set up is perfect. The scrolling feature over the keyboard is a throwback to the little ball
🔑2️⃣ user here too
Hillarious! Once I used to be a tester for BlackBerry software. Still have mixed rememberings - proud and pain in the neck.
What made BlackBerry such a business beast was its instant messaging. It became a back channel in companies. Only the top level exec's would have them (initially) and using Rim's server they bypassed corporate IT departments. As they became more common their cachet declined. They required a monthly fee for their messaging capability. The death knell was an internal conflict at RIM that had them removing capabilities to avoid conflicting with legacy devices. That led to the final model cratering.
Hey Simon, I remember the Blackberry of 2002. It was marketed more for businessmen, at that time. The popular craze came after they made phones cheap enough for teens and young adults.
I live in Waterloo, and a lot of my friends used to work for RIM back i the day. Yes, it was generally pronounced as "rim", and yes, it was an ongoing joke that university of Waterloo computer engineering co-op students would want nothing more than to "get a RIM job" for their co-op term. We were sorely disappointed when they dropped the name, although most of us in town still refer to it as RIM because, well, it's RIM!
Most of my friends who worked there were coaxed away by the likes of Google and others, although I still have a couple of friends who work there. Although BlackBerry no longer makes hardware, it did licence the name BlackBerry to TCL for their handsets. I currently have a BlackBerry KeyOne, which is a fantastic device. I did have one of the PRIV phones, and it was pretty great except that it had a problem with the battery heating up during use. The PRIV was the first of the Android BlackBerry devices. I had a Z10, which was the last of the BlackBerry OS devices. Their OS was great for stability and functionality, but absolutely did suffer once people stopped making apps for it. by then, the OS was supposed to be able to sideload Android apps, but they didn't work properly.
Lazaridis is pronounced Lah-zah-REE-dis. One of his biggest mistakes was that he decided that BlackBerry devices would be exclusively for business use. While in university, my husband's friend got a RIM job and showed off one of the very early devices. They asked if he could write Tetris for it, and a couple of days later the friend showed off the Tetris game he had programmed for it. However, he said it nearly got him fired, because Lazaridis found out about it and announced loudly at the office that anyone caught writing games for any BlackBerry would be fired on the spot. Later, as the iPhone gained popularity due to its many fun apps. Lazaridis relented and the company tried to play catch-up.
Another mistake was that RIM's founders started out with a packet radio system, which saved battery power by having the cell tower signal the device to wake up rather than the device constantly pinging the tower. Lazaridis thought it should be used for truck telemetry, but nobody was interested in it. When he started putting it in pagers and phones, it did well, but he refused to licence the technology to other mobile makers. Had he done so, he would have gotten royalties from every text and call ever sent. Instead, competitors developed their own systems an eventually packet radio went out of use altogether in favour of industry standards.
There was also the terrible mistake of making the BlackBerry Playbook. Woefully underpowered and running the QNX operating system, it had extremely limited usefulness and very few apps that worked with it.
Today, BlackBerry makes a lot of software for automotive screen interfaces, but now many vehicles are using Google and Apple systems instead so even that is waning. TCL announced recently that it would be making no more BlackBerry devices. I don't know where the company is going from here.
I admire the restraint that is shown on the other channels Simon does, since now I know how truly sarcastic and witty he is naturally. Must be hard work to read some of those other scripts with a straight face.
9:40 This is a well put summation of the GIF-wars.
How did I miss this one!?!? I STILL mourn my Blackberry, & I never cared that I was the odd one out at the time....tho was well past the supposed 2002 peak when I was using it & despite being mocked I used it until my last model would no longer work on my mobile plan (could've be due to being in NZ cuz my US relatives still had them a bit longer).
Besides the privacy, I miss the fact that I could LEGIT message w/o looking at my phone & 100% by feel w/90-95% accuracy!
Yeah, I'm seriously gonna go cry over this loss, AGAIN! ....once it was possible to text & drive w/o looking at your phone & w/o being recorded & tracked at the same time. :'-(