<story><title>People Keeping BlackBerry Alive</title><url>https://debugger.medium.com/meet-the-people-keeping-blackberry-alive-in-2021-d86ee9ae6634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simo_dax</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)&lt;p&gt;Apps are scarce, many don&amp;#x27;t work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don&amp;#x27;t have many requirements it&amp;#x27;s still a solid phone, it can&amp;#x27;t do much but what it does it does well.&lt;p&gt;Also, the privacy is unmatched</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jermaine_Jabi</author><text>The unified message centre has not yet been topped.</text></comment>
<story><title>People Keeping BlackBerry Alive</title><url>https://debugger.medium.com/meet-the-people-keeping-blackberry-alive-in-2021-d86ee9ae6634</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simo_dax</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)&lt;p&gt;Apps are scarce, many don&amp;#x27;t work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don&amp;#x27;t have many requirements it&amp;#x27;s still a solid phone, it can&amp;#x27;t do much but what it does it does well.&lt;p&gt;Also, the privacy is unmatched</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arch-ninja</author><text>Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate?&lt;p&gt;I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple&amp;#x2F;old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.</text></comment>