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Well, I don’t want to sound like a show-off, but I said this was coming, at least a year ago. Here’s why- 1. The market and customers have moved on With enterprises taking to BYOD initiatives and allowing people to get their own devices (the iOSes and the Androids) to work, companies and people are fine with whatever platforms get the work done. Security on mobile isn’t the scare it used to be, at least not enough to command the BB premium in price. 2. D ominant design, no more Agreed a keyboard makes typing long messages easy, but who wants to type when you can dictate (I’m talking about Siri and its ilk here). Same goes with the look, feel, build et al. Dear BB, you are not leading on the design front anymore. Sorry. 3. Apps and Social Networking Cross platform and cross-device integration- the ability to access all your information from all your devices like desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile etc.- is the future on which billion dollar businesses are being built...

-Why it hurts most people    True that it is the home I've known all my life: my memories, friendships, the places, the food, the culture and my way of life are all made there. But it has been several years since I left home to make a life of my own, and that makes nostalgia even more painful. Having said that, I've seen and read enough of history- business and political- to understand that change is inevitable. In a time when families are turning nuclear, no wonder people would prefer smaller places to govern. As a digression, it pains me to point out that governance and the rulers these days are incompetent to manage large provinces. Come to think of it, we can’t trust such tremendous power in the hands of slobs who can’t look beyond the very short term. The granting of a request for partitioning of a state would encourage many more similar (or much less-thought-out) petitions from agencies and persons with much ulterior motives. But this is the least of the prob...