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Debby

@jonah Me too, I really miss the BlackBerry Classic. It was a great phone.

I wish BlackBerry had made the hardware open-source before closing. I think it would still be very usable with a basic Linux system.

Anyway, if you are looking for an alternative 'phone' with a QWERTY keyboard, the uConsole might be a workable alternative, even if it is bigger than even the BlackBerry Passport.

clockworkpi.com/uconsole

ClockworkPiuConsole | ClockworkPiuConsole - A real "fantasy console" for indie game developers and bedroom programmers.
#BringBackBlackberry#Keyboard#KeyboardPhone
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Éloïse Shifa Doğuştan
A bit of -yung- leaf morphology

Hops growing rampant on brambles, I really like these kinds of entanglements.
At first sight, one could mistake one plant for the other, as leaves show immediate similarities. But looked closer, here are some differences and shared characteristics you can easily spot:

Shape:
A hop leaf is usually palamtely 3-lobed. It means that a single leaf contains three divisions in the shape of a palm (think of a duck palm or your hand), spreading from its base. You can see it easily on the picture: One leaf with three lobes.
Blackberry leaves are compound leaves: They often occur in a composition of three leaflets, but it is not a leaf with three parts. It means that these are three different singular leaves, that are displayed or arranged together by three. You get it?

Margins:
Both hops and blackberry leaves margins have these small irregularities, called serrations: like tooths of a saw.
Serrate leaves are also a characteristic shared by most plants from the rose family (Rosaceae), which Blackberry is from (not hops. By the way hops comes from hemp family (Canabecaeae), same as marijuana, that's why it smells the same, try to crush a leaf or the cone when it's season). Back to rose family: Next time you see an apple tree, plum tree, or strawberry plant, have a closer look at how the leaves look like: you will see the resemblance and witness the family connexion between the plants.

Veins:
These are the thin lines you see meandering on the leaf. They are transporting water and nutrients through the plant.
In both hops and blackberry leaves, you'll observe a pattern of a central axis with a bigger vein, from which secondary veins are growing both sides. It looks like a feather, and it's called pinnate veins (btw pinnation is an arrangement that occurs in other natural contexts).

#humuluslupulus #hops #rubus #blackberry
A hand with a hop leaf and a blackberry leaf
#Blackberry
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Dendrobatus Azureus

In 2005, Google paid $50 million to a software engineer called Andy Rubin, together with his team for a dying phone company giving away their FREE software.

Critics called it the "dumbest acquisition ever."
Today, that "dumb decision" is worth over $500 BILLION and is the reason why you are holding a less expensive but quality phone that is not an iPhone

Here's how Google saw the future before anyone else: and built the world's most used mobile device - Android phones

It all started with a tiny company called Android Inc.

Founded by 4 top tech entrepreneurs and business executives, Led by Andy Rubin.

Their goal?
To create smarter mobile devices
that are more aware of their owner's location and preferences, and an operating system that is completely free & open-source.

Any manufacturer could use, modify, or make it their own. But at this time, this seemed insane.

Because the company was struggling financially:

No products.
No revenue.
Just 4 guys and a dream.
To make it worse, the mobile phone industry was locked down tight by software giants:

• Nokia controlled its software
• Microsoft charged for Windows Mobile
• BlackBerry kept everything in-house

The idea of giving away a free Mobile phone Operating system (OS) was Laughable.

But Google, just as they saw the future of YouTube, saw something much bigger - Mobile phones would become the primary way people access the internet. With that google search engine will be irresistible

They weren't buying software.
They were buying the future of computing.

To protect their search engine business, they pushed to buy

This was the real threat:
If Microsoft or Nokia dominated mobile, they could:
• Block Google Search
• Push their own services
• Control the future of digital advertising

Google couldn't let that happen.

So they made their boldest move yet. Buy out the entire company, not just the product.

But they didn't just buy Android. They kept it open-source.
Why?
This was genius because they wanted:
• To give Phone makers free software,
• help Android developers get a free platform
• Help Users have more choices.

Result? Companies like Samsung, Huawei, HTC can distribute their Android devices freely

Everyone won...

Except Google's competitors. 😁
Blackberry
Nokia
Microsoft
Because within 10 years of Android's free open-source purchase, their company was gone.

wondering why you have not seen them again today.
Cos' everyone prefers an open-source free phone where you don't have to pay for anything after the initial purchase.

That's the masterstroke
In 2008, the first Android phone was launched;

The HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1)

It wasn't pretty.
It wasn't smooth.

But it was the beginning of a revolution...
Because Google did something unprecedented:
They gave manufacturers complete freedom:

• Change the interface
• Add new features
• Customize everything
This sparked an explosion of innovation...

Companies like Samsung, HTC, LG, and others could now compete with Apple without building an OS from scratch.

The result?

Android powers 71% of all smartphones worldwide.

That's billions of devices running Google's software.
But here's what makes this truly genius:

In everything Google builds, it always finds a way to monetize.

How does Google make money from its $50 million investment?

The truth is, Google doesn't make money from Android directly.
Instead, they make money from:
• Play Store fees
• Google Search
• Digital advertising
• User data
The platform is free, but the ecosystem is priceless.

This $50M bet didn't just transform mobile.
It transformed how we:
• Connect
• Shop
• Work
• Live

The lesson?
Sometimes the biggest opportunities look like the riskiest bets.
Google's Android gamble teaches us:
The best investments aren't about what something is today.
They're about what something could become tomorrow.
And sometimes, giving away value is the best way to capture it.

Source FB

#TechStories#Android#OpenSource
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DoomsdaysCW

One person's pest is another person's dessert! For those of us who intentionally cultivate #Blackberries...

14 Plants to Grow Alongside Your #Blackberry Bushes to Keep Them Happy

By Kate Chalmers
March 11, 2025

"Blackberries are among the easiest fruits to grow. In addition to providing an abundance of delicious fruit, blackberry bushes boost biodiversity and can be used to create a natural hedgerow.

"However, as with any plant, choosing the right blackberry companions is essential. Careful companion planting can boost soil health, deter pests, attract beneficial insects, and guarantee huge yields of delicious blackberry fruits."

homesteadhow-to.com/plants-to-
#Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #CompanionPlanting #FoodForests #Berries #GrowYourOwn

Homestead How-To · 14 Plants to Grow Alongside Your Blackberry Bushes to Keep Them HappyBlackberries thrive with the right plant friends! These companions will keep them happy and productive. Save this pin for berry-growing success! 🍇🌱
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.

  • Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.

I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.

  • Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.

#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...

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Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

@JessTheUnstill One of the big fuckups for BlackBerry was just the delays in getting BlackBerry 10, plus the Z10 and Q10, to market.

I got to use BB10 for a couple of months, and it was nice. It was built on QNX, with a modern swipe/gesture based UI built with Qt.

Arguably a better OS than the iOS and Android releases at that same time.

There was a feature called the Hub, which wax a unified inbox for your email messages, social posts, and text messages. Plus a modern app store, and separate personal/work profiles built into the OS.

There was a version without a physical keyboard (Z10) and with (Q10).

The problem is they didn't start working on it until 2010, and BB10 wasn't released until 2013.

For about two years before BB10 came out, BlackBerry didn't release any new phones.

Had BB10 come out earlier, it *might* have saved the company.

#Blackberry#Crackberry#phones
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Roos
The wild blackberry is forming new leaves. It is not everybody’s best friend due to its invasive character, but we learned to love it. We have a part of the garden full of wild blackberry and it has so many upsides! We make delicious jam of the fruits and in this season we collect the young leaves, ferment them, and make a herbal tea.

Next to this, it serves as a natural fence to keep the dears off our land, it provides shelter and food for all kinds of animals and the roots of the brambles help to prevent soil erosion on the slope. It is a bit of work to control them but it is worthwhile.

#herbaltea #blackberry #permacultue #gardenlife #jardin #alsace #ronce #tisane
#tisane
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