BlackBerry: Toss the server, mate... BES is in the CLOUD now

"enterprise push email"

Push isn't much of a selling point unless you're in one of those niche business but then chances are you already have BES or another competing solution - however GOOD security is much more important now, post-Snowden.

Now that they have the all the cloud pieces in place BB should start offering hosted/cloud-based secure email service on their own, touting their end-to-end (within their domains, of course) AES256 etc encryption, providing VPN etc.

I understand this won't do anything for dubious local LAE access - hey, that's something Congress should fix - but at least it would offer *some* protection against the completely illegal attacks of the completely out-of-control, completely rotten UKUSA-based intelligence establishment.

There was, for a while, a Blackberry cloud-based platform, that was canned. We had been using it too and it was quite good.

Still, no-one round here uses Blackberry's any more, so...

The Catch

>The catch? The hosted option only applies to BES10, the current suite.

So that excludes some of the large corporate structures then......I know that ours is definately not on BES10 and I haven't heard about any upgrade plans in the near future.... I can esilly presume that we are not alone.

Cloud BES has been around for ages....

Many hosted Exchange providers also offer hosted BES so this again is another thing Blackberry are offering which is not going to save them. I'm forever getting emails about licence exchanging between the old BES and BES10 at no cost. Its just a mess.

There's a lot of obsession about security but you know what....many companies just want their emails to work and are quite happy with the security Android and iOS give them.

Any USPs left? They did have data compression which was perfect when roaming abroad outside Europe as kept the data costs down hugely....but they've dropped that with their latest handsets.

Such a shame as I really liked BlackBerry I just wish they would hurry up and get their act together.

If I was them I would bring out a couple of decent handsets with qwerty keypads, ditch the Passport which is odd to say the least, bring back data compression and add the Google Playstore so no side loading apps which the average userbhas no clue how to do.

Then they would have something which might actually sell.

Oh and don't launch phones at iPhone prices because people will just buy an iPhone.