Doesn’t Apple and Droid have their harcore fans aswell? As far as I know their fanbase is even larger, look att the Telus numbers, Z10 already has more reviews than Iphone5 and slightly less than Galaxy III and higher scores that is impressive no matter how you slice it.

100% agree with with you. The reality is that the buyers are either the hardcore or the fanboys. There’s no other reason right now, no overwhelming reason to buy a blackberry when there are two main rivals offering hogging the biggest pieces of the pie. If the fanboys and the hardcore were enough, blackberry wouldn’t be in the trouble everyone and his dog knows they are, nor would there be a desperate need to defend this article by blackberry fans defending their chosen platform.

On one side people want a simple phone thats easy to use yet is in some ways on par with the most powerful phones, wrapped up in a pretty shell. Apple have that market sewn up. A A seemingly overly complex swipe system will not appeal to the majority of that group.

And on the other side we have those that want a supercomputer in their hand, want to be able to do everything that they can do on their desktop that they can do on their phone, maybe more. And then there is tweaking and trying various roms for those that always want to be on the cutting edge. For a phone that struggles to run its own OS without lags, for a phone that doesn’t have a large technically minded community, there will be minimal options for who who hate the feeling of being stuck in a way of using your phone like IOS.

And of course windows mobile, for those perhaps tired of the same ecosystem but are not ready for any complexity. A buttonless swipefest of a buggy OS is not an alternative for that market either.

If blackberry fans were more honest and reviewed the phone with its real faults and real pluses without the fanboy issued glasses, I think people might forget their own experiences with blackberry. People forget that when blackberry was big, a lot of us tried one. The reason its small now, is because of the experiences.

First generation blackberry phones and their particular OS would come underpowered and all round unsatisfactory. Im not convinced thats changed with the Z10 and no amount of fanboy love will change mine and I think many others view’s until we have a far larger sample than the few beta testers that currently are locked into a couple years contract with one or those who went balls out and splashed out, naturally wanting to justify their purchases and financial commitments.

In a month or two we will see phones that have leaped again in technology, building on very stable and sophisticated platforms and filled to the brim with specs that show how many years the z10 is behind the game.

The z11 will have a quadcore almost guaranteed, but whether anyone will care is not so predictable.

Please stop saying Canada is where BB is most beloved, loved, used, or anything of the sort. They are 47% iPhone, 32% Samsung, 4.5% Blackberry. Yes, it’s the country of manufacture, but Canadians are not BB sheep.

so….its fair to compare a handset with a brand new os (as was ios when with the first iphone) with other handsets os that has had years to perfect and gain attention from application developers? eg. “BB10 IS DEAD BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF APPS” OR compare it to other hardware that has been out and was being perfected???? U SIR ARE BOGUS