Why I Prefer The Blackberry Passport Over My iPhone 6 — forbes.com

I received my Apple iPhone 6 the first day it was released in September, and my Blackberry Passport in late October. When I first got the iPhone I assumed that I would choose it as my primary phone. I was wrong. After more than a month with the Blackberry, it has become my primary smartphone. Like many of us, I started with a Blackberry back in 1998 when they were email-only devices. As Blackberry released smarter and more capable devices I, like millions of others, would get the newest phone until their foray into touch screens about six years ago. Verizon released the Storm and I used it for about a year until I had had enough of its problems, both hardware and software, and very reluctantly abandoned Blackberry and switched to an Android. At that time, most of us believed there was only one phone, and that was a Blackberry. We were obviously wrong, as the iPhone and then Android virtually evaporated Blackberry’s market share in North America.  A series of management decisions at Blackberry did not help, nor did their second disaster, the Playbook, of which I was quite critical.

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