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This article was first published by  dmcityview.com It is amazing how open the world seems once you realize you have options. Once you discover life exists beyond high school you can do whatever you want and for that matter be who you truly want. Whether it be apartment, car, washer/dryer, or mattress as soon as you start making adult decisions you find out the true value of a dollar. But in technology it seems these lessons occur with every new innovation. For instance there are a multitude of smart phone, laptop, and desktop options, but even what initially seems so trivial can immediately become paradigm altering. The best example of the power of choice in tech may just be the web browser. When web surfing first started resembling what it is today, it was the mid 90s. At that time home PCs were overwhelmingly the home computing tool of choice and therein the main tool for web browsing was Internet Explorer. Of course many people were reaching the internet through services li...

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com It is officially time to call it; the BlackBerry is dead. It doesn’t matter that it dominated the planet before the iPhone or that the President of the United States was it's number one fan years after the platform lost all of its cultural cachet. The classic BlackBerry design of a phone with a half screen, half physical keyboard, with a mouse like menu/selector button is toast. It doesn’t matter which BlackBerry OS 10 devices we talk about; the Q10, Z10, Z30, Passport, or Classic, all versions of BlackBerry technology that are not iPhone-style, single piece of glass screen are officially collectors items. What went wrong? I mean companies have been obtusely stubborn about their importance and style in the past, but few have gone down with the ship. Ford famously opened the door to competitors in the early 20th century when it refused to sell cars that weren’t painted black, and Apple was so stubborn about its locked-in comput...