Why no one is buying Blackberry anymore? Abridged edition.

My bad, I'm the first to admit. I've been meaning to write about Blackberry's possible-likely demise ever since that post I wrote about how they are now worth *less* than *just* Apple's App Store went crazy viral.

But I've been busy, what with all the holiday festivities and such, and now I'm packing, and I'm tired, and, while there's not much wine in these little bottles four of them do add up pretty quickly.

Meaning...you all are the losers in all this, tragically. No brilliance. No cogent analysis. No raw language cum insightful conclusions.

You will not read how the utter collapse of Blackberry is actually shocking. Yes, management are serial fuck-ups. Yes, Google is spending billions in monopoly profits from another market to crush Blackberry and buy up market share for Android.

But the fact is, Blackberry devices are superior to nearly every single Android device. That's right, superior to nearly every single one; maybe every single one. They offer superior build quality. A more stable operating environment. Better keyboard, better texting, better email, better security.

I think the OS is superior. BBM is better than anything Android offers. The cameras are all pretty damn good. It's easy to Twitter or Facebook. Call quality is far superior.

So what gives? I mean, shit, even Microsoft, which doesn't know what to do with all it's cash, passed on buying them. 

I know, I know...but Brian, there's like 500,000 apps for Android and only like 50,000 for Blackberry.

How many apps do we need?

Is it the touchscreen?

You have any idea how crappy and poorly responsive most Android touchscreens are?

I think I know the reason:

Blackberry are awesome *work* devices. Only, smartphones have now become our *always* device. The smartphone is the (personal) computer. 

No one thinks of Blackberry as the game console, the eReader, the movie screen. We don't actually listen to music on them much because they are work devices. That's how we've always viewed them. 

Only, in this new revolution, which is more than just an app revolution or touchscreen evolution, it is the consumer, the user, the individual, that is leading the charge -- and taking their devices inside the company. It is not the company device, such as the PC, that is pushing its way into our homes.

Those days are gone.

So, too, I fear are Blackberrys.

Anyway, that's my very quick analysis. I'm just too tired to offer up anything more right now...