{"id":11884,"date":"2022-01-05T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:49:35","slug":"blackberry-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/05\/blackberry-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-01-04\/your-blackberry-dies-today-end-of-an-era-for-iconic-handset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your BlackBerry Dies Today: End of an Era for Iconic Handset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AUMmWB97hBs\/vlad-savov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vlad Savov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/images\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/iOaZxSfPN7ug\/v0\/1400x-1.jpg\" alt=\"Day Two Of Mobile World Congress 2015\"\/><figcaption><em>A BlackBerry Classic smartphone.Photographer: Pau Barrena\/Bloomberg<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BlackBerry devices running the original operating system and services will no longer be supported after Jan. 4, marking the end of an era for the storied device that catapulted work into the mobile era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waterloo, Ontario-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BB:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BlackBerry Ltd.<\/a>, the company formerly known as Research In Motion whose signature handset in the 1990s came to embody working on the move, said handsets running its in-house software \u201cwill no longer be expected to reliably function\u201d after Tuesday, according to its end-of-life\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/us\/en\/support\/devices\/end-of-life\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-01-04\/your-blackberry-dies-today-end-of-an-era-for-iconic-handset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Bloomberg<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg Your BlackBerry Dies Today: End of an Era for Iconic Handset By Vlad Savov BlackBerry devices running the original operating system and services will no longer be supported after Jan. 4, marking the end of an era for the storied device that catapulted work into the mobile era. Waterloo, Ontario-based\u00a0BlackBerry Ltd., the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}