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We are in a gadget-crazy market so this thing with competition with Apple and Android is very tough, and I have yet to figure out if the two alternates to BlackBerry are really all that much better...
But this is just an attempt at a bit of morale-boosting, support for the company from a Canadian user, and a sub-note that I am a Canadian senior female, not a type that is noted as a gadgeteer in the IT sector marketplace, but I did want to get a smartphone and I decided on the BlackBerry Z10 and am more than satisfied with it.  At the moment I just discovered the Bell app for watching live tv on the Z10 -- I thought that was very neat, useful for those keeping up with the news, and very reasonably priced on the Bell mobility provider network...
Well, BlackBerry employees and Mr. Thorsten Heins, I am thinking of you a lot this Saturday afternoon in Victoria, BC and thanking you for a hard-fought battle.  I hope things can survive and that more people realize the Z10 is totally competitive with any of the best smartphones out there...   and, my recommendation for the future is a device that is a crossover combined tablet, phone and e-reader [maybe a battery switch to switch to e-reader format] so that a serious adult and a senior could carry just one device with them whlle travelling.  The device could include a Bluetooth earpiece and mike for using at a desk as a phone...
My best wishes!

 I am all of 73 and fortunately active and used to be very computer literate, but never kept up after Windows went into a confusing spin and lost its well-organized setup where one could find one's files!   I've gotten used to Windows 7 now.   I guess that places me...  I was a community librarian in a public branch library and actually set up one of the first computer learning centres for kids in a public library, in Canada, with Apple IIe computers!  Then we added PCs.... so I've always followed Apple's fortunes...
I don't hate Apple, or Android, for what they are, and I know it's a competitive market out there for these devices, a lot of people like to try different ones, but I do think BlackBerry did well with the Z10 and that it is an excellent, robust choice for a smartphone...  I'd like to try the coming Z30 but probably can't afford to.   I did find it challenging to learn to use it,  but my husband ordered a Google Android phone over the internet because it had a certain marine navigation app he wanted which brand wasn't available for the BlackBerry at the time, Navionics, not sure whether it is now or not.  I LOVE the predictive touch-screen Z10 keyboard, it is excellent, the whole internet experience seems fast and stable.  And not as hard to learn to use as all that, my other half is still having trouble just even making calls on his Google Android, he sometimes can't seem to get it right, finds it confusing, says the keyboard disappears...  well, you know, us seniors...
I still think BB should develop a "phablet" with an earpiece and mike as well as speakerphone, and an e-reader mode with its own battery level or something of that sort, to create an all-purpose device for the mature travelling adult that's not as bulky to carry around as a laptop.
It's a rough world out there and the world can use only so many smartphones...  but I believe this one is one of the best. 

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