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It's still relevant. Increasingly, mobile OSes are less about where they are now than where they will be. Apple have been outstanding in that regard- providing OS updates to really quite old phones. Vanilla Android has been just as great, but individual Android manufacturers less so. MS has been terrible. BB has a history of being terrible.

So, Blackberry's past is relevant. No, they might not repeat it, but absent of any other evidence, we can only judge them by past conduct.

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"Apple have been outstanding in that regard- providing OS updates to really quite old phones."

Yes, like the iOS 4 update for my 3G -- which made my phone so slow as to be almost useless. Came close to smashing it in frustration many, many times. So in my case at least, Apple providing an update to an old phone is definitely nothing to brag about. However, it did force me to upgrade the phone, and I'm guessing that was the point.

That wasn't a good upgrade, but at least the option was there. The phone came with 2.0, received 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2. Every one of those was available day one.

Most android manufacturers aren't releasing updates, or they're months behind. WP updates were often stalled months by carriers/manufacturers, and phones bought last year can't get WP8.

>Most android manufacturers aren't releasing updates, or they're months behind

HTC finally released the Android 4.0 update for the HTC Thunderbolt (Verizon's variant of the HTC Desire HD). I guess 14 months after Android 4.0 was released is better than never, but it kills me it takes that long for some Non-Nexus devices.

BB is also making good on that now, updating things that can be updated like their playbooks, even though they're several years old.

I'll say I was very impressed that they're going to update those tablets. That was an excellent show of good will. So many manufacturers would have released a new tablet (even if it was only cosmetic differences) and told their existing customers "Thanks for your last purchase, here is the new hotness, buy again."

Then I can only judge Apple by OS 7.

Mac System 7 was released in 1997. The earliest BlackBerry Bold (assuming that's the one under discussion, which I'm not clear of) was released in December 2009.

One of these things is not like the other.

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