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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Blackberry to move away from the consumer market

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 25th Sep 2013 00:20
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/20/4753080/blackberry-cutting-4500-jobs-shifts-focus-to-prosumer-and-enterprise

I wonder what this means for future releases of games to the platform. Is BB worthwhile for TGC to continue supporting with AppGameKit?

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JimHawkins
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Posted: 25th Sep 2013 00:41
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RIM have seriously messed-up. Currently, I'd say forget it, but there is a loyal market.

-- Jim - When is there going to be a release?
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SoftMotion3D
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Posted: 25th Sep 2013 02:46
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its probably just going to be a buy out.... I wouldn't worry too much about this.

The fact is that millions of people own bb products... whoever buys them are not going to toss the line up and support out the door. And what are they going to do? Toss over a billion bb10 phones in the dumpster....I doubt it.

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baxslash
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Posted: 25th Sep 2013 11:58
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Actually it is seriously looking like they will go into the secure communications software market and abandon hardware altogether. It's possible what I've heard is wrong but I wouldn't spend too much time on BB at the moment, at least until they make an official comment on their future.

rem something missing here...
start : wakeUp() : gosub work : repeat : readStories() : until getKidsAsleep() = true : sleep(18000000) : goto start
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JimHawkins
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Posted: 25th Sep 2013 15:01
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They are completely screwed. They totally misread the market, their consumer feedback is dreadful, and after a couple of years they'll be a dead duck.

-- Jim - When is there going to be a release?
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