BlackBerry Down: Is This the Final Nail in the Coffin?
SodaHead Tech
2011/10/13 13:00:00
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Apple has already been experiencing a major boost in sales following co-founder Steve Jobs' death, but they've still got competition from Android and BlackBerry. Wait, scratch that...We're getting word that... that BlackBerry sucks and everyone hates it... The news is flooding in over Twitter, because that's apparently the only way many BlackBerry users are able to communicate.
Starting Monday, millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa began experiencing problems with their service. Wednesday, three days into the BlackBerry blackout, it rolled through the States as well. Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), BlackBerry's creators, warned of "intermittent service delays," but many are reporting they've been unable to e-mail, BBM, text, or access the Internet for hours at a time.
Celebrities are taking to Twitter, the only service that seems to work consistently on BlackBerrys during the outage, like cultural watch dogs. Many of them are swearing off BlackBerry for good and promising to buy iPhones. RIM says the problem is due to an e-mail backlog, but even if they manage to get the system back up in a hurry, the damage is vast.
Here's what a few celebrities are tweeting:
Rob Delaney (Tampa Bay Rays pitcher): "Steve Jobs just told me through my Ouija app that he is responsible for the Blackberry outage. I told him to grow up."
Perez Hilton (celebrity blogger): "Dear Blackberry ... you're trending! And we are THROUGH! You're still not working for me and Momma Perez is on her way to buy me the iPhone! ... Going to buy an #iPhone. Sorry @BlackBerry! ... What did one BlackBerry user say to the other BlackBerry user???? Nothing!"
Joel McHale ("The Soup," "Community"): "Can I borrow someone's bugle? I need to play Taps for Blackberry service."
Piers Morgan ("Piers Morgan Tonight," "America's Got Talent"): "RIM now saying this #Blackberry crisis is caused by a 'backlog of emails'. Can't blame them for that - why would they expect users to email?"
Starting Monday, millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa began experiencing problems with their service. Wednesday, three days into the BlackBerry blackout, it rolled through the States as well. Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), BlackBerry's creators, warned of "intermittent service delays," but many are reporting they've been unable to e-mail, BBM, text, or access the Internet for hours at a time.
Celebrities are taking to Twitter, the only service that seems to work consistently on BlackBerrys during the outage, like cultural watch dogs. Many of them are swearing off BlackBerry for good and promising to buy iPhones. RIM says the problem is due to an e-mail backlog, but even if they manage to get the system back up in a hurry, the damage is vast.
Here's what a few celebrities are tweeting:
Rob Delaney (Tampa Bay Rays pitcher): "Steve Jobs just told me through my Ouija app that he is responsible for the Blackberry outage. I told him to grow up."
Perez Hilton (celebrity blogger): "Dear Blackberry ... you're trending! And we are THROUGH! You're still not working for me and Momma Perez is on her way to buy me the iPhone! ... Going to buy an #iPhone. Sorry @BlackBerry! ... What did one BlackBerry user say to the other BlackBerry user???? Nothing!"
Joel McHale ("The Soup," "Community"): "Can I borrow someone's bugle? I need to play Taps for Blackberry service."
Piers Morgan ("Piers Morgan Tonight," "America's Got Talent"): "RIM now saying this #Blackberry crisis is caused by a 'backlog of emails'. Can't blame them for that - why would they expect users to email?"
Top Opinion
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JohnFitzgeral12 2011/10/13 23:13:30
But I do not care much, I like my phone.
This company has killed itself, it's only a matter of time.
The iphone says 'At least iwork'
all my ebooks are in a format to read on my 4 year old Palm smartphone, and the phone still works fine.
Now I can use an Iphone (a recent development) I'd prefer I phones but so many biz use them that they'll definitely recover.
I just want a phone that works!!