{"id":30608,"date":"2012-10-16T07:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/oh-the-shame-of-blackberry-ownership.html"},"modified":"2012-10-17T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T14:00:10","slug":"oh-the-shame-of-blackberry-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/oh-the-shame-of-blackberry-ownership.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the shame of BlackBerry ownership!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remain irked that Margie&#39;s employer still <i>requires<\/i> company phones to be BlackBerries. \u00a0But this article is more than a bit silly.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F10%2F16%2Fbusiness%2FBlackberry1%2FBlackberry1-articleInline.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/16\/technology\/blackberry-becomes-a-source-of-shame-for-users.html'>Quick, Hide the BlackBerry, It\u2019s Too Uncool<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe phone once coveted by the elite and the powerful is becoming an object of ridicule as Androids and iPhones corner the smartphone market.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1FA6B9sjgu5' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remain irked that Margie&#39;s employer still requires company phones to be BlackBerries. \u00a0But this article is more than a bit silly. Embedded Link Quick, Hide the BlackBerry, It\u2019s Too Uncool The phone once coveted by the elite and the powerful is becoming an object of ridicule as Androids and iPhones corner the smartphone market. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/oh-the-shame-of-blackberry-ownership.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, the shame of BlackBerry ownership!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,21,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-job-jollies","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12299,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/blogging_from_the_blackbe.html","url_meta":{"origin":30608,"position":0},"title":"Blogging from the Blackberry","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jun-08 10:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"SixApart has announced a native blogging module for RIM Blackberries. 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