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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">title</h1> <h2>[previously]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[2015-01-21] Blackberry CEO Chen writes open letter</strong></li> <ol> <li>] calls for net neutrality for apps, vendors should have to write bb apps</li> </ol> <li><strong>[2015-01-22] Reaction from the press</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/blackberry-wut/" target="_blank">BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory&nbsp; TechCrunch</a></li> <li>] <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30932399" target="_blank">BBC News - Make coders develop Blackberry apps, says firm's boss</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>] <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-never-looked-desperate-184531520.html" target="_blank">BlackBerry Has Never Looked So Desperate - Yahoo Finance</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[currently]</h2> <ol> <li>] &nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutrality/" target="_blank">http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutrality/</a>&nbsp;- by John Chen</li> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[next]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <p><br />] BB i dont know what Chens motives/gameplan are/is here, but ....<br />-</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>] chen on nn</strong></p> <p>we pivot away from our prior reliance on hardware to become a full-service, device-agnostic provider of highly secure and productive software and services</p> <p><strong>Key to BlackBerry&rsquo;s turnaround has been a strategy of application and content neutrality.</strong> For <strong>example,</strong> we opened up our proprietary <strong>BlackBerry Messenger</strong> (BBM) service</p> <p>in 2013, making it available for download on our competitors&rsquo; devices. Tens of millions of iPhone and Android customers around the world have since downloaded BBM and</p> <p>are enjoying the service free of charge. Last year we introduced our secure BES12 mobile device management software, once again designed to manage not just BlackBerry</p> <p>phones but also available for enterprises and government agencies whose employees use iPhone and Android devices.</p> <p>Unfortunately, <strong>not all content and applications providers have embraced openness and neutrality</strong>. Unlike BlackBerry, which allows iPhone users to download and use our</p> <p>BBM service,<strong> Apple does not allow BlackBerry or Android users to download Apple&rsquo;s iMessage</strong> messaging service. <strong>Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier</strong></p> <p><strong>neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them</strong>. <strong>Many other applications providers</strong></p> <p><strong>similarly offer service only to iPhone and Android users.</strong> This dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem, in which iPhone and Android users are</p> <p>able to access far more content and applications than customers using devices running other operating systems. These are precisely the sort of discriminatory practices</p> <p>that neutrality advocates have criticized at the carrier level.</p> <p>Therefore, neutrality must be mandated at the application and content layer if we truly want a free, open and non-discriminatory internet. All wireless broadband</p> <p>customers must have the ability to access any lawful applications and content they choose, and applications/content providers must be prohibited from discriminating</p> <p>based on the customer&rsquo;s mobile operating system.</p>