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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • They literally couldn’t pay the devs. Netflix for instance flat out refused to have blackberry pay for 2 full time devs to maintain an app.

    Netflix looked at the market share and determined that there was 0 benefit. The people that were on blackberry devices already had a Netflix account.

    Additionally Blackberry store apps were compelling for devs. Dev feedback included ease of development and more importantly they made a lot more money on the blackberry store than on iOS/android, both because the cut was better and they could jack the prices up because the customers were not nearly as frugal.

    To get into mobile would require a massive overhaul of windows apps to get them mobile-friendly

    Oh look, that’s exactly what they did and now we have PWAs for lots of apps. Maybe MS is getting ready to take a stab at mobile again.








  • Anything that decodes webp images is vulnerable to an attack. Unless the vendor of the app says they patched it, assume they have not.

    Browsers are obvious, but lots of other things decodes images. Your text messaging app, atm machines, vehicle infotainment, the ticket swipe at the airport. Anything designed to capture, process, or display anything is suspect, along with the underlying os of anything.