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BlackBerry 10 is probably going to come out one day in the future, in the same way that an asteroid the size of Canada will probably hit and destroy Earth one day in the future. But regardless, some way to drum up interest is to… leak pictures of your own CEO using a pre-production BlackBerry 10 smartphone at a basketball game? I guess.
To be honest, it kinda looks like Thorsten Heins (the CEO) and Andrew Bocking (Senior VP of Product Management) don’t really know how to use their phones. Anyways. We must laugh at this picture. We must laugh a lot, so give me a few good captions about this picture down below. For context, Heins and Bocking are a Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns game for some reason (I guess cause hockey is locked out?). [Crackberry, NY Mag]
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“This screen’s not big enough, wish I had my ipad!”
“Where’s my PlayBook when I need it?”
“Wow, we really can’t do better”
Not sure why this picture is “dumb” or how “it kinda looks like Thorsten Heins (the CEO) and Andrew Bocking (Senior VP of Product Management) don’t really know how to use their phones.” They look like most people do when taking smartphone pictures, they are trying to see both the screen and the event beyond in an attempt to be ready for the best photo op. This looks very much like Giz being cruel to RIM for the hell of it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but at least be honest about it.
Agree. While most decisions made by RIM lately seem to be stupid ones, I fail to see what is so wrong about this one. Just two guy using their camera phones.
It seems like a lame publicity stunt. “Oh lets get our CEO to use our unreleased product at a high profile event! that’ll stir up conversation!”
… Having said that, we’re all talking about it right now… Those ingenious bastards!
they look like iphone 5s from the back.. rectangles, rounded edges camera in the corner.. i smell a patent war..
Caption: “is your`s working?”, “nope, just carry on and style it out” “ok cool”
“Hey look, we’re on kiss cam!”
“Not now Andrew sweet heart, concentrate on the task at hand. I’ll kiss you later!”
Wrong. You’re holding it…..
“Target sighted. Eliminate with extreme prejudice. Kill them!”
I can’t help but think of the Flintstones when I look at this photo…
Heins is wondering why they don’t make bifocal phone displays… UNTIL NOW!
Bocking is just wondering why he has to make do with a painted clay prototype instead of a working model.
Angry birds on BB10 with the stand-up ‘feature’
“Yeah baby, if Steve were here, he’d be wanting to go ‘thermonuclear’ on us!”
“Wait until they all stand still, then tap the screen and wait for the click. They will stand still. We just need to wait. A bit longer. Yes… yes… no. Why are they all moving all the damn time? Who’s idea was this? Fire them immediately! Oh, it was mine. Okay, we’ll just wait a bit longer. Man, this built in 2k camera is gonna kick ass when everyone sees it.”
“The graphics are unbelievable, all these players look just like the real thing!”
Deary me! Check out the badonkadonk on that one! *click* *click*
Heins – “Andrew, it’s saying ‘An unknown error has occurred’ What do i do?”
Bocking – “NFI dude. I’m still trying to figure out why we have so many buttons on this thing”
Needs more meme: http://memegenerator.net/instance/30522931
“Arm the friggin laser!”
“Sir I’m trying, it’s not that easy sir! Oh crap, cannot connect to Blackberry Internet Services”
“When we get back your ass is fired! Right act like nothing happened, pretend to take a photo”
“Sir I’m not sure how it works! I’m trying!”
“So, we’ve sold our first two! HIGH FIVE ANDY!”
“Technically Thor baby, me and you having one doesn’t count, so no.”
“Oh… We fucked aren’t we?”
“Shall we queue for an iPad mini?”
“We’re not THAT desperate!!!”