faithuak: Dec 1st

Dec 1st too.

bolagabriella: Like I always say and now I quote "the look gets my attention,the attraction make me pause but the personality cause me to stay"

Hello, where have you been on BBM?

dimples*:
Men and ball
I go pray make light no dey
I go pray make fuel no dey
I go pray make black market no sell
I go pray make sun no Shine for ppl wey dey use solar
Infact I go just pray

You're joking, right? Better go watch Afmag and allow your boyfriend watch soccer in peace. Or find a gossip centre.

Tinkybabe: Absolutely ,we'll hussle it together provided he's got prospect,he's success driven and he's focused.
There ain't no storm we can't wade together

I had to like your comment. Used to follow you and I do see your comments. Impressive at all times I dare say.

PS: I'm not jobless before some nitwits here starts spewing rubbish.

Maybe your English was so atrocious that it rendered her deaf and dumb.

In a way, this is like a come-and-get-me message, but hey!, no details or even a picture?
C'mon the world is too advanced for that.
Do the needful, am sure you will get a barrage of calls from NL dudes.

Have you ever worn a shirt out and happened upon another dude wearing the same material and print as boxer shorts? My friend laughed me to scorn all the way home!

I dash am out sharparly! No time!

I've always known myself to be non-Nigerian. I remember walking along the road back in my country, only to be picked up by some bad bele people who hypnotized me. I woke up to find myself in Lagos near the three statutes at Alausa Ikeja. That was when I realized the trouble I was in.

I know I will return to my beautiful country soon. I've even forgotten the name of that my country. Till then, I will keep looking for my escape route.

I'm tired of this place.

Why would they put Chicken and all on a plate of noodles to advertise it even when the sold item doesn't contain all of these. Beats me!

All I can say is, you've not reached your final destination. Shikena!

Luis Suarez, over to you!

Suarez should follow suit.

What's all these now? My friend, girlfriend, friend...

The other day, my cousin's friend sent him a text and ended it with 'love you'. Told him to call the nigga back sharply to explain what that meant.
Dafuq is that shyte...huh? I can't for the life of me say that to my male friends!
Pet names? Yuck! Sorry, I'll pass!
No gay crap near me!

These magamago people...too many bad belle. I go still play am sha.

190-the-clown:
thats her true nature!!

shes been pretending and now the cash came in shes bought her actual self out

Drive am before she wreck you oh!!

save for the raining days my broda nor let Naija girl send you go 6feet

You never disappoint on issues like this.

No point beating yourself over this. Pick yourself up and move on. All these feelings will fade away; it's only a matter of time. You can accelerate it by trying not to dwell so much on it.
Try focus on other things that matter and you will be just fine.

cute shade: December 2nd

So close; yet so far!
December 1 here.

I knew it would come to this. It was only a matter of time. We're awaiting another twist to the unfolding drama.

tellwisdom: Poor people.. 100 Naira card is what you both cant afford

You this boy shaaaaaa

These people are trying so hard to play God.

His mangled body has been recovered.

She's a premium idio.t!

Don't come back here with a story of how she duped you oh.
Don't want no Maga stories here no more!

alexmbachu2: hey dear,am new here and i wana gt hooked up.cn u call me 08037471837

Bros you dey find trouble?

All these lists...

If PDP catch you....

190-the-clown:




rotfl @ the topic and OP

Why are you kicking someone who is already down? What is wrong with you?

Fair judgement and commendable as well.

One word: Sickening!

Watching BlackBerry stumble and fall during the last few years has not been pleasant. The company once stood at the top of the smartphone market. Its smartphones were carried by mobile professionals in the tens of millions. These devices were the envy of the office and the company helped push mobility in new and exciting directions.
And then everything went wrong.

The company made a number of mistakes along the way that led to its current position at the bottom of the smartphone market. It's still losing share. BlackBerry last week announced that it is exploring strategic options, including an outright sale of the company to investors or other third parties. BlackBerry is close to the end of the road and desperately seeking an escape route.

Here's how BlackBerry found itself trapped with nowhere to go.

1. It wrote off the iPhone.
Former BlackBerry co-CEO Mike Lazaridis scoffed at the original iPhone. He thought it was a toy. He derided its poor battery life and balked at the idea that anyone would want to type on glass when BlackBerrys offered full QWERTY keyboards.

The original iPhone may not be impressive by today's standards, but there's no denying that it forever altered the smartphone paradigm. It offered a big screen, a capable browser, and the best music/video experiences available from a mobile device, something that BlackBerrys (and most other smartphones at the time) did not.

As the saying goes, BlackBerry didn't adapt -- at least, not fast enough -- to the changes in the market. Classic Darwinism in action. (Nokia is guilty of this too.)

2. It wasted resources on the PlayBook.
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is one of the biggest tech industry failures in recent memory. The company introduced the tablet during the fall of 2010 (following the debut of the original Apple iPad tablet earlier that year), and brought the PlayBook to market in April 2011.

BlackBerry's leadership probably thought it was responding to the Apple iPad is a timely manner, getting a competitive product to market as quickly as it could. It did this at the expense of its smartphones. BlackBerry pulled resources away from its smartphone development teams in the months leading up to the PlayBook's debut. Instead, it should have skipped the tablet altogether and focused on its core smartphone business, which was already in trouble. (Handset sales are historically responsible for 80% of BlackBerry's revenue.)

The one thing BlackBerry did right with the PlayBook was to base the operating system on QNX, which it had purchased earlier. QNX and PlayBook OS eventually led to the foundation of today's BlackBerry 10 operating system. If BlackBerry had only skipped the PlayBook and begun work on BlackBerry 10 right away, it might have had a better chance.

3. BlackBerry didn't fire Lazaridis and Balsillie soon enough.

BlackBerry's former CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, are far more responsible for the company's position today than is current CEO Thorsten Heins. Lazaridis and Balsillie were bullheaded and unwilling to change with the market. They ignored competitive threats from Apple and Google, they frittered away time and money pursuing the PlayBook, and by the time they realised their mistakes it was too late.

BlackBerry's board of directors should have recognised this sooner and done something about it. It was obvious to everyone else that Lazaridis and Balsillie didn't know how to handle the changing market.

Why did the board not see it? Had BlackBerry's board noticed the writing on the wall 12 months earlier, the company might be in a much better place right now. Was the board scared of what would happen if it fired the two founders of the company?

Lazaridis and Balsille stepped down from their co-CEO roles in December 2011, ceding control to Heins, who officially became CEO in January 2012. Heins hit the ground running, but BlackBerry was already too far behind to catch up.

4. It didn't take BYOD seriously.
One of BlackBerry's core strengths is the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The BES is the tool used by businesses to manage their fleets of BlackBerrys. It remains a capable and incredible service for mobile device management.

Once the iPhone and Android were proven enterprise devices able to run business apps, some businesses began to let employees pick their own smartphones. Guess what they picked? iPhones and Android smartphones, not BlackBerrys.

The problem is that BES was unable to manage the iPhone and Android devices in the way it can manage BlackBerrys. Enterprises began to allow mass adoptions of these competing products and had to choose other solutions to manage them. BlackBerry didn't add the ability to control the iPhone and Android smartphones to BES until BES 10 was released this year.

5. It delayed BlackBerry 10 until 2013.

BlackBerry debuted BlackBerry 10, its next-generation operating system, in January 2013. The first BB10 devices hit the market shortly thereafter. Of course, by this time, Apple's iOS was onto its sixth major generation, Google's Android was onto its fourth major generation, and even Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was on its third major generation. BlackBerry 10 would have been late to the game if it showed up in January 2012, let alone January 2013.

Of course, building an operating system from scratch is no easy task. Had Lazaridis and Balsillie reacted to the iPhone immediately in 2007 (or even to Android in late 2008), it's possible they could have gotten something improved to the market by early 2010. That alone could have helped significantly.

But they didn't. The company released two more iterative updates to its aging platform (BlackBerry OS6 and OS7). These were both significant improvements over BlackBerry OS5, but not nearly enough to compete with Android and iOS.

Along with the iterative OS updates, the company stuck with iterative hardware updates, too. The Bold, Curve, and Pearl lines remained essentially unchanged for years, despite the interesting and new form factors being introduced by makers of Android devices.

At the end of the day, BlackBerry's current predicament traces back to poor leadership. It's truly a shame, because the company had plenty going for it.

Now the company's fate is surrounded by questions. Will anyone buy it? If they do, what will become of the smartphone maker? Will it be sold in pieces, which seems likely, or as a single company? Will it be shut down or kept alive? There will be no fairy-tale ending for the former smartphone king.
• Culled from informationweek.com

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