• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      That was one of the big 5 in my mind. I never did any BB dev, but I remember looking into it at the time. If I couldn’t get a device for cheap or free it was inaccessible. Student life is what it is. By the time I made my webOS money they were already on the decline and considering a move to android so I didn’t consider it thereon.

      Just watched the Jay Bachurel movie recently and can recommend. It’s a bit slow but the nostalgia is top grade.

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        9 hours ago

        I gotta say, I actually enjoyed the time programming for BlackBerry. It was the only time I actually did C++/Qt professionally. And the APIs were very inspired on the iOS/MacOS ones, so it was kinda easy for me to migrate later to iOS.

        But just the same way, the guys in the university lab back then got a few BB10 devices just for sending apps to their app store.