When the device became divisive....
With the Egyptian government’s ban on internet usage being claimed to be the mighty doing of a crackberry and the Webster’s new world college Dictionary announcing “Crackberry” as the official new word of the year 2006[yeah,they did] along with spiritual guides and inspirational speakers publically venturing into rehab like facilities for crackberry addicts further guiding “how to identify” and “control” your crackberry addiction in 4 simple steps further adding to the nicknames credibility made me wonder what pot have we gotten ourselves into yet again.
With the “blackjerry” and the “bharatberry” being the most sought after spinoffs of the crackberry, isn’t it about time people acknowledge it for what it is, is a fad more than anything even merely substantial??
Amongst its fame is it being the first phone to introduce push messaging and emails on cell phones ,Barack Obama becoming the first American president to use email mobile, it being the fifth largest sold phone in the world with nokia and apple and Samsung. But with popularity comes threats likewise blackberries were threatened to be banned from India, Pakistan, Algeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, united arab amirates, and Bahrain aswell because of “ security breaches” in their systems.
Well don’t they do like to start with a bang.
While were at that why not look under the hood of this addictive little black box of plastic and metal as to what magic hypnotises us into becoming virtual crackheads.
Every crackberry looks the same manly according to some bulky according to other users,its design leaves much more to be desired so does its music quality,low battery life ,bad camera quality,frequent switching off or hanging of cellphone,trouble syncing it with netbooks,high cost of maintainance,sad after sales service,no resale value, uneccesary constant contact, etc are constant complaints from crackberry users also there are no distinguishing factors apart from the blackberry messanger .Once known for their superior and unique internet browsing capabilities,available in all phones now,today crackberries seem to be the culmination of everything crap instead of anything good.
i wonder if the bharatberry is so bad afterall.
While the crackberry addicts may probably be the fastest at delivering their automated messages but they are also subconsciously sending out an unconscious message to those around them.
I understand the need to be more efficient; I just feel the death of one-on-one interaction is too high a price to pay. It is now considered a waste of time to focus your attention on a single person. People fail to realize that being rude to several people once does not qualify as multitasking.
The crackberries entered our markets to woo and charm the office going,boss hating,men in meetings who could discreetly do the “crackberry prayer” and come up with the most unheard of suggestions and win the bosses graces,Along came various other cell phone providing the same features thus taking away the technical advantage.Inorder to keep their sales up the crackberry people thought why not target the youth if they are anything like the Americans they fall rite into our traps, and fall we did like a fall never seen before.
What our pseudo innocent crackheads fail to realise is the identity crisis of the makers as well as the users of the crackberries alike. They are attracted by the flash value and the illusion that owning a crackberry makes them hip or “cool” along with a brand value which apparently is slowly diminishing come enter the iphones, androids, windows 7 phone, nokia business series etc.
I predict we shall ask ourselves in the near future have we lost our minds?whatver happened to making the pragmatic choice.
Apparently Worst of all is the new Best of all.
Jack of all , fuck all
