Hey Marissa Mayer - We don't want you anyway

Not calling blackberry SMARTPHONES smartphones, is ridiculous. Blackberrys are extremely capable and can do so much and even now some platforms don't even come close to what bbos can do. And bb10 more so. No wonder she runs yahoo...

Oblivious woman

So, basically what you're saying is Marissa is wrong because BB will _eventually_ get there? In other words, she's 100% right that at the moment the BlackBerry phone platform can't be compared to other mobile operating systems?

No one's doubting that BB10 is going to be great. But she's not wrong - BB devices at the moment are _not_ modern smartphones. Maybe in 2013, but not today. Funny thing is you're saying the same thing and are, essentially, agreeing what she has to say.

Stop acting like a victim when you know the issue at hand.

It seems to be a trend now to say something bad about RIM

Ouch.
Maybe RIM could send Marissa a new BB10 to check out :-)

If you want to talk obsolescence, then she certainly doesn't have to look very far. After all, who the heck still uses Yahoo for anything these days?

Funny... Since she's in charge of a company that is struggling (even harder than RIM at that...), I would expect a little less attitude.

Her point is valid, but like many others, completely ignoring 80 million users just shows how brilliant she is.

Who is this trick again? And why should I care? Bring on more important things, like BB10

yahoo = altavista

LOL. Women.

I wonder how long it will be before the revolving CEO door at Yahoo kicks her out on her ass. If you read up on coworker experiences with her while she was at Google you will see that she is horrible to work with and the only reason she was around at Google for as long as she was is because she was there during Google's infancy.

She's a moron and the world will know soon enough how useless she really is.

BlackBerry users are mad LOL.

It's OK, Yahoo isn't a real search engine anyway.

... and she became part of Yahoo!'s excecutive team? No wonder the company is where it is.

Now is is clear why I chose Yahoo! For simply junk mail. =0)

Please fix the twitter link!

What's Yahoo do anyway?

This news is kind of old. And it brings to my mind that Yahoo doesn't work really well with BlackBerry smartphones. Calendar sync is not working without a paid app, contact syncing is also kind of broken... Posted in the forums about it:
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-bold-9930-9900-f235/yahoo-calend...

"Nice Dress" Haha, CrackBerry is awesome! And damn her laugh ws weird in that video talking about maps. Sounded like she was gagging... kinda hilarious actually.

I'm sorry but her saying that BlackBerry isn't a smart phone and is irrelevant is the pot calling the kettle black. If your heading up a company struggling to get traction, the last thing you want to do is exclude anything or anyone that could potentially be a customer. One should never alienate users of that brand unless your business doesn't need those people. Best practice regardless of what your thoughts are about that product, say nothing and move on.

I haven't used Yahoo for years but as a Blackberry user and supporter, I can dam well assure you that while she's heading up the business I won't ever use Yahoo for anything.. And Ms. Mayer you can take that to the BANK!

#BB10Believe

Yahoo is still around?? I thought it died with AOL, Altavista, Ask Jeeves and Netscape.

What does she need a smartphone for?

Oh, and BTW the dress is what my granny wears. Just as out of fashion as Yahoo. And don't go into public if you have a bad hair day. Go and see a proper hair stylist.

Honestly does anyone care what she has to say? Most people don't consider Yahoo! a search engine anymore, but someone obviously forgot to tell her that...lol

I say it again, why does this moron encourage her employees to invest in devices from direct competitors of Yahoo? Apple, Microsoft, Google? Does she not comprehend that she is padding her competitors bank accounts? Brilliant!

So her feelings to blackberry is my feelings to yahoo. She doesn't consider them a smartphone and I don't consider yahoo a search engine! But I am sure people will wake up and realize blackberry is a smartphone WAY before people will ever rightfully use yahoo as a search engine.

And as for credible news, it is about as useful and informative as CNN. Yes I was smiling when typing that. Lol.

Also nice to see the company named after her as she seems to be the biggest yahoo of them all!

i don´t care what she say... i'm just a blackberry smartphone really happy user, and one less yahoo user... plus remember a person is as smart, like the phone they use :)... no wonder why they what all those iToys :)

Do you think she made these idiotic comments while PMSing with raging hormones? Because no informed person would say something so idiotic about Blackberry.
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I’d rather be a Black Sheep than an iSheep any day.

My 9800 smartphone is alot smarter than this cow.

Ya, who?

almost amusing!! she is getting lit up on Twitter...

no wonder she run yahoo...wkwkwkw...a company that have bad record of choosing ceo

Look what happened to Mit Romney for ignoring a segment of people.

I'll give her a piece of my mind with a video AND a few tweets from kdentica, where google will pick it up, unlike twitter. SHAME on her.

yahoo whats that... let me google it

This chick is a dumbass, plain and simple.

No disrespect at all who the hell still uses Yahoo???????

Google Or Bing.... thats it for most folks I talk to.... Yahoo was dead in 2003

It's Yahoo.

This isn't 2002, who cares?

I think she need to take lessons from other smart, savvy and sophisticated women who use BlackBerry devices and rock the scene - Rosie Pope, Cheryl Cole, Arianna Huffington and even Beyonce. I remember reading an article and this blasted woman joined office a few days after her pregnancy. Any self respecting mother would take weeks and even doctors advise rest for 5-6 weeks to recover.

I like her, she is doing a great job at Yahoo, I'll be shorting Yahoo stock soon and hope to make a ton of money from her great work. You go girl!!!

Directv sent out a flyer that shows an Android/iPhone looking device under Smartphones, and showed a BlackBerry (could read the name on the phone) under other web enabled Mobile devices. It seemed to indicate that BlackBerry was not a smartphone, so this isn't just an opinion held by one person.

But you have to remember that the majority of BB's out there are pre OS7, and give the fact that early BB browsers SUCK and that almost no one writes commercial apps for Blackberry. It leave BB as a 2nd class smartphone.

Ok, so you're CEO of a platform that's struggling to survive and you insult 80 million potential users of your platform? Maybe she's not as bright as we were told...

It's good to see she's endorsing phones that, by default, use Yahoo's rivals as their default search engine. i can just imagine all their employees using Bing for their searches. I realize that BB does not use yahoo by default, but they are not in the portal/search engine business.

I guess we not gonna get yahoo messenger... my world is ending now.....crying like a baby.... wait, I don't use yahoo messenger, I use BBM and MSN so I guess im not going to miss it... I actually deleted yahoo messenger from my phone, it was just taking up valuable space... Marrissa and to suck an egg...

About the only use I have for Yahoo! is as an email account for stuff that I know will result in a ton of spam.

BlackBerry will still be around long after she is unceremoniously canned from Yahoo!

Wonder if she had applied for a job at RIM and got turned away so now she's got a wee grudge going on.
Or perhaps an ex or fling loved BB's sooooooo we're all feeling the pain now.

We alllllll know how spiteful women can get.......

I used to yahoo a lot but only use my yahoo email as a spam filter for sites that 'need' and email address.

I'll be sure to visit the yahoo main page a lot when BB10 comes out so her webmaster can report the hits coming from a BB10 OS browser. Let her know she was wrong.

Where is RIM CEO on this? Thorsten should rip her part on this. Lets get her in the octagon with Thorsten and b*tch slap her with the alpha unit.

It's pretty funny that she feels BlackBerry's are irrelevant when she is CEO of a company that is now irrelevant. I seriously have not heard of anyone using Yahoo in at least 5 years. Will be interesting to refer back to these comments of her's when she's pleasantly surprised by BB10.

Yahoo is like home button.... So yesterday!!!

Live Long and Prosper!

Never heard of her I dont even know who she is.A Top CEO or top executives know about blackberry and they would'nt champion W8 phone for starters. I aint been to yahoo since what 2000's.SHe's irrelevant we will accept her concession in future.

#teamblackberry needs to show this ignorant executive the errors of her ways. 80million (+ the people we know) need to learn to get along without yahoo products. Maybe She needs a forced retirement?

The mighty Thor now needs to stand up for #teamblackberry and put M&M in her place!

She's right... BB's are NOT smartphones.

They're SUPERphones. :)

RIM and Yahoo are the same really.

Stars of the past.

All,

I think that the appropriate course of action would be to get Alex Saunders in front of her and her team and get them enthusiatically supporting the BB10 platform like so many others have.

Yahoo is a big, visible, and globally recognised player - despite all the negativity on this forum. The comments here about Yahoo are the same silly comments being made about RIM in many cases by other malinformed bloggers and so-called analysts.

Yahoo, more or less, represents the negative mindset of most American consumers regarding BlackBerry, I feel.

For such an entity to change their (very public) opinion is a barometer of what hope RIM has for the American Market in general, it seems to me. If she comes around, then there is solid hope for the rest of the marketplace.

My two cents.

Yahoo. Last time I checked that company was desperate to sell and no one wanted them. Yahoo is on a death spiral anyways. Who wants to pay extra to send mail using a yahoo email on outlook or another client. Their chat is nothing but spam and the portal sucks.

Yahoo is another 90's company that never adapted. Rim sure does not need yahoo for anything. All their portals are bland boring air.

PS Marissa the breaking Amish show needs you back for filming. You look hideous, did you sew that dress yourself?

why to really think globally... maybe that is what is holding yahoo back....

Hey I think she's right. I've just did the same. I've change my default search engine on my PB and my BB to Bing.

Hey Marissa Mayer, we don't consider you a "smartwoman" !!!

Yahoo! Headlines: "Mayer dating Jonathan of BGR- a regular yahoo tech news contributor, a BB basher." Yahoooo! :p

Well she will definitely have to eat her words and then throw them back up on her pretty dress or wait she may have already done that. I honestly didn't know who this was when I started reading but after all said and done I really could care less what her opinion of BB is, we all love our phone and nobody can say different. Too much negativity going around this holiday season...where's the love at people!

CrackBerry Is My Choice Of Drug

How arrogant, if her focus is on mobile why would she exclude any mobile player, if she sold tires would she put off a certain car company? It makes absolutely no business sense. Unless she is truly loving bb10 and wants to throw off the competition, otherwise she is really stupid with absolutely no brain in your head, or A f-en jacka$$.

She's got her bias from working under Google as an executive.

However, not considering a BlackBerry as a smartphone, let alone a modern smartphone is baseless. It's got all the functions phones have needed, even if 9900 can't compare to the flagship models of the other platforms.

My company is removing their BES server and going solely with BYOD for mobile devices. Not sure how my BB works with the GOOD servers.... Sorry, not giving up my BB right now. Also, speaking of BB's not being called "Smartphones", I ran into this at a Sprint kiosk at the mall. I was curious about the Galaxy S3, because two of my buddies just got one, so I wanted to check it out and see what the hype was about. It was a nice phone, had some neat features, and I was complimenting about it. The salesman (big fat slob of a man) said that "All Smartphones have that feature." I said, my Torch2 doesn't do that. Then he had the gall to say to my face "That's because your Blackberry isn't a real smartphone." Completely straight faced! He tried to explain that it was because of the BIS/BES servers. That relying on those made it not be a smartphone. It took me by surprise for a second, and I seriously considered decking him for being so rude, but I carefully placed the phone back in the display mid sentence, and walked away. I didn't need to meet mall security, and have a lawsuit on my hands.

People still use yahoo?

Maybe RIM should reach out to her and make somethign happen. .. until then I'll settler for flaming her on twitter. . .LOL

Three weeks ago, Yahoo's Fantasy Football servers had a big outage on a Sunday. I'm sure Yahoo employees on their iPhone 5, SG3, or Lumia were treated with the same experience as their users on a computer or Blackberry during this outage! Maybe she should focus her company on maintaining its own infrastructure before declaring that their employees need to experience mobile Yahoo like their users.

Guys no fire required, just be cool and collective this is a partnership game. Criticize with facts like when Heins in an interview questioned the sources of the New York Times. Yahoo CEO comments and media bashing just shows us that people want to see the goods they want the BB10

JC

Yahoo engine is so weak it cannot screen #BlackBerry10. What I TW her. What I believe.

Indeed. Aweful dress, taken from a Tim Burton movie.

definitely agree RIM should reach out and try to win her back. Why not have the best Yahoo app. She is someone who is driven to make Yahoo successful again just like TH is with BB... she just needs to be made a strong partner. She's a talented lady and highly regarded, once she sees the power of the new BB she'll be an advocate. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying this interview doesn't piss me off lol... but we have to resist the urge to get up and walk away because partnerships on content are actually something BB needs to work hard to earn.

I have never had a yahoo account, also never use Yahoo at all ... Every BB I have, first thing I do is deleting their app.

I read once and article that Yahoo just did on a complicated way what google did easily ... In other words, that they put so many code lines and stuffs on their page, when google just did better on an so easier way ...

So if they like to complicate things, keep letting this woman leading them ...

And I imagine if RIM gives her a BB10 DEV device, she would give to someone else, because she want a smarthphone pfffffff

comment such like that is like a vitamin for us blackberry smartphone user. it make us stronger .....

"nice dress" lol

boom. roasted.

Some could argue that Yahoo isn't even a business

Her idea of fixing their struggling company is to make staff less productive? Great idea!

Lol. How can anyone consider an iPhone a smartphone, when it is incapable of true multitasking.

Oh, and what's a "Yahoo!" ?

Is Yahoo still a search engine?

What is Yahoo? Isn't it the bakery that just closed? Lol.

What ... don't you guys all check your Yahoo and MySpace pages every day like I do!? She's in my top 8 friends!

She should learn to keep that BIG pie hole in her face shut.
She just cost Yahoo 80 million customers.

Is this someone you want leading your company?

NOPE !

Marissa wants you to vote her as Time's person of the year. Let her know how you feel:

Should Marissa Mayer be named TIME's Person of the Year? Vote now
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2128881_21288...

Dear Marissa: what you are saying is that your Company has had a poor mobile experience because your employees have been using BlackBerries? How do you explain the poor experience on the desktop? I believe your problems maybe be larger than you may understand. I stopped using your services years ago. My platform of choice has plenty of alternatives to what you provide. PS I have 80 MILLION mobile friends. Thanks

Since her focus is on mobile, I have a feeling she's hoping to hook up with Apple, to replace Google as Apple's partner.

Well, when I read the headline I got my hackles up and quickly log in to leave my two cents worth. You guys have mostly said it all. I swear I got some good laughter therapy out of some of your posts.

The real deal is that she made a grossly uninformed comment but she came by that type of thinking honestly . It is just amazing to me what some media "tech experts" write and get away with.

So how do high-minded BlackBerry people who "do" need to react? By giving the impression we love a good barroom brawl on a Friday night? I stand with those that say RIM should put a little effort into converting this woman. She can't help but ending up not only drooling after a BB10 phone, but admiring what RIM is doing to turn around.

Bottom line: what she is saying is either true or not true, and the future will prove it out. I am voting for RIM.

Now that is what I call "One dumb blond".

Yahoo is garbage. I literally use it to have something to enter into a Required Field of an online form that I know will send me spam.

Yahoo is nothing more than a spam dumpster.

I will spank you and give you time out, YAHOO WHO!!!!!!!!

1st thing I do when I get a new device is delete anything to do with Yahoo. There are so many better options. Yahoo is comparable to AOL something that should have gone away 15 years ago.

So childish of Crackberry to basically urge their users to start a war on twitter with someone who could care less. Just because someone likes different things doesn't mean you have to attack them. If you people had real lives, maybe your parents could have taught you that if you don't like what someone is doing, you leave them alone. But then again I'm talking to people who have been on the my strange obsession tv show who have sex with their Blackberrys.

Yahoo isn't even considered a search engine.

She's a whore who cares what she says. She was probably passed on as a CEO option and is pissed off now because Thor is way better

Can't tell smartphone from a smartphone fail.
can't tell the different between business phone from a toy/entertainment phone fail.

Just voted.....(no way!!!!!);) BB10

funny that she would make such a comment...considering that she is running a company that is about as relevant as wired corsets.

There is nothing offensive in what she is saying. She's not attacking RIMM, so people need to relax. Mayer sees growth in mobile, and she wants her employees to use what her customer base is using: iPhone, Android, WP. Yahoo's main customer base is in the US, where BB only has 1.6% market share. How do you expect your employees to innovate for the mobile market (read: iPhone & Android) when your employees are forced to carry a phone that only 1.6% of your customer base uses?

When (not if) BB10 grabs more market share BBs will be included in the choice of phones, so again, relax.

BTW, I am a shareholder in both YHOO and RIMM. Mayer is to YHOO as BB10 is to RIMM.

Who's Marrisa Mayer anyway? What's Yahoo?

Why would she want her employees using an obsolete version of the BB OS? She wants her employees to use smartphones their customers are using so they can understand how they navigate etc. when developing things and understanding how the OS7 OS does navigation is not a good thing looking forward 6 months.
Let's see what she says in 4 or 5 months.

82 million Blackberry subscribers.....Can Yahoo say that.....and what the hell is a "Yahoo".....Do they have a cure for that...........

So here is an example of a large slow moving corporate entity that no doubt left most of their employees equipped with OS5 for the last 5 years. If not, and most were OS7, this is a fine example of the perception problem that RIM is faced with when BB10 launches; e.g: BB's aren't for apps, BB's can't do much of anything, etc...

RIM's marketing plan needs to include non-traditional methods of setting the record straight. Thus far they have been engaging directly with the media, and I hope Thorsten does reply to this Marissa's comments. She talks about partnering where necessary, but only mentioned giving money to her competitors smartphone segments, LOL.

Ya who?

Well, consider this....if yahoo's technology in mobile, was as far behind as Blackberry's was the last 2-3 years, their change is late. On the other hand, I have a strong feeling that if OS10 is well received in the marketplace, Marissa won't be far behind supporting it. And, I think Waterloo will have some input on that also.

- 1 for Marissa.
Keep voting NO for this mindless exec. who needs to learn her priorities and not burn bridges with BB.

i a lot of what has been said by some already. especially from the ones that say that her comments are uninformed. Being that she feels yahoo should have a greater mobile presence, blackberry should've have been the logical choice in my opinion. Windows phones have bing, Android has google. Apple has to do some soul searching after the passing of Steve Jobs. The best bet would've been to go with blackberry.

Blackberry has been playing catch up for some time now and they've been making changes with leaps and bounds. It would be in Yahoo's best interests to have their developers work with blackberry. At least send Yahoo developers to Devcon and see the buzz and excitement generated from other developers.

Another thing, that I would've done if I was Marissa, was to at least speak to Thorsten Heins to see what his thought process is. If you're serious about having a mobile presence, you don't ignore 80 million subscribers.

It's not childish for Crackberry to ask it's user base to send Marissa feedback. If done in a proper and positive manner, feedback can be very informative. Crackberry nation is a very powerful force. We're all united in seeing Blackberry do well.

Why would they even offer Lumias unless they were getting kickbacks for doing so in the first place...

Yahoo is powered by bing, look at the bottom of a yahoo search. Nuff said.

Mindset of employees can't be changed by giving iphone. They will end up playing games all the time. Instead she should learn from Thorsten Heins how to survive a company. He never said his employees to dump yahoo email address but focused on RIM's strengths and weakness. He sailed RIM from the bitter strome sucessfully and BB10 is knoking our doors..

I have watched Ms Mayer for some time and to be forthright she is not CEO material. She appears to believe that bravado is a substitute for sound planning and a reasoned methodical approach. While one could argue that Yahoo and RIM have suffered similar fates over the last few years, It is my belief that only RIM is positioned to reemerge as a leader in the mobile communications field. This is due to RIM's management team which tackled their problems head on and established a long term strategic plan. Unfortunately, Ms Mayer has no such plan and has surrounded herself with equally visionless people. She will last less than 2 years in her current position.

Wow that's just wrong for her to say. i'm shock that yahoo is still around blackberry is more relevant than yahoo

Skank.

She is CEO of YAHOO, but seems to be quite active on GOOGLE+

LOLOLOL

Seriously, YaWHO? Who really cares about Yahoo today I might ask. If I have to think about Yahoo, I'd have to think back a few years ago. When there was Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and of course AOL.
Instead of throwing with stones of her glass housing, Ms. Yahoo!? should get her own things together before insulting other companies for being outdated.

just voted NO WAY. For one simple reason. Yahoo was good, and bb still remains good. Simple. May her belief in god should really help her in making yahoo the same as it was again. People usually project their belief in god only to gather followers, If you believe in god good, shut up and I don't need to know you do, its a simple fact.(shows what you are).
ROFL

" No Way " is at 81% right after I voted.

@marissamayer Don't be to quick to dismiss blackberry, quite a few of your customers use BB. Dismissing a group of clients? unprofessional.

What an idiot!!! What possible reason would Marissa Mayer have to slam Blackberry. I will no longer support Yahoo. so now I can say that I will kick Yahoo to the curb!!!!!!! And you call yourself a CEO, what a joke!!!!!

Perhaps her terminology is incorrect, but I can see where she's coming from... After all, BlackBerry has fallen so far from grace that it's hardly worth sniffing at anymore.

BlackBerry App World has hardly any applications (especially when compared to the likes of the Google Play Store and iStore), the browser is slow and outdated, the operating is somewhat outdated and so few companies/Web sites support BlackBerry that it's simply heartbreaking.

Hopefully BlackBerry 10 will change all this, but what we have right now? It's hardly relevant in today's world!

I like BlackBerry just as much as the next guy - probably more so - but there's no point in getting worked-up over a point that is actually correct from a certain point of view...

Yahoo! was good during the early years of internet, now Google has everything Yahoo! had and do them better.

Purposefully excluding BlackBerry in a line of smartphones is not a good move. Although, actually do anyone even use a Yahoo! service on their BlackBerry?

...even the dress looks like made for the belle of the village... if you live in the US Borscht-Belt or may be Corn-Belt...Up to now I associate with "Yahoo" more a text for a synch for a B-movie of the porn-industry... Yaaaa.....Hoooooo.... yaaa hooo ...hooo.hooo..hooo... Cant help...

Incorrect word usage in main post - "inferring" should be "implying."

Speakers imply.

Listeners infer.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/lifestyle/31850789.html

I Haven't used Yahoo search in 6+ years. Still have a yahoo email but never use it. Just went to checkout yahoo and it looks like my IT department Blocked the yahoo site for my entire company. IT helpdesk just emailed all 900+ employees that everyone should change default search to google or bing as Yahoo will no longer be allowed. LMAO They are hardcore bb and crackberry fans. Gota love it!

voted "No Way"

I agree with The Lady: BB is losing ground fast in the Smartphone market that it is hardly a player right now. App World has nothing but 'wannabe' Apps in it; the Playbook is dependent on Android Apps for its Oxygen and BB10 is late. It is only BBM that is keeping them alive. Not sure how long for, though

Just my 2 cents!

I have been made fun of for using Yahoo as my home page roughly about the same as I have been for still having a BlackBerry. I've had a Yahoo account since the day they offered them and it was the first web page I ever saw.

Anyway. I just cancelled my small web site my band hosted with them and changed my home page. There are plenty of reasons to not support BlackBerry right now, but no reason to be snotty about it.

Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2012?

Won't be Marissa Mayer 13,166 (Yes)/55,632 (No)

You can thank the Crackberry Nation for putting you near the bottom of the pile. Like you ever stood a chance after those remarks. Just like the dress you wore, you're out of touch with fashion and running a 90's web portal that should just die. Do you yahoo? I bet your default search engine is Google..lol

BB by choice, iSheep just whine!

Blackberry for me, no Yahoo.

Just voted no way and tweeted her. Cc'ed crackberry and blackberry as well..
Its true. U yourself is in as troubled company as rim and yet being snotty publicly?
Wrong move to belittle a company with 80mill existing bis consumers.

BlackBerry not a smartphone? lets break down the definition of what a smartphone is:
phone: a communication device used to making calls and messages
smart: not Mayer
therefore, BlackBerry is a Smartphone!

Can't...take...my...eyes...off that dress...

Kidding aside, seems more like a Google crony placed into a failing company to finish it off, or a rather desperate attempt by Yawho? (clever, no) to appear hip and in touch with reality. Sorry, but too little too late. Oh and I have a novel idea if you want to draw search traffic, build a functioning search engine!

Double post

Just another one of those people who should be more in the know, who obviously is not. It really amazes me when people in relatively high corporate positions are so ill informed. But then again she does work for Yahoo, which really isn't Google is it now? So it's not really a "smart" ...you get the point.

Obviously she touched a very sensitive spot in the hearts of many BB fans. But she is right.
OS 7 is completely outdated. Our only hope is BB10.

These comments are exactly why YAHOO is no longer relevant. It's a shame cause I did like a lot of their stuff back in the day.

They are trying to build a new yahoo and basically RIM is doing the same thing, so they should know better.

Any hope for BB10 you ugly skank?

I think there are far to many people giving this comment more time then it deserves..........Her comments mean next to nothing.

Ladies and gentlemen, please go easy on Marissa, she had bad information because she uses Yahoo!

Am I missing something? She didn't bash RIM or BlackBerry. She simply didn't mention them. An omission is not a bashing. Am I reading the quote wrong?

She's right. BBOS up to version 7 feels even less suited for a smartphone than Symbian. I wouldn't currently (or in the past) buy a BB phone (even less so considering the dated hardware specs and preposterous price tag... in my country you pay almost full price for mobile unless you get extremely expensive monthly plans with your carrier).

I have a PB so my pov is different about BBOS10. The quality of the hardware (build and specs) coupled with cost/quality and content availability will determine if I ever get such a device. For me it would have to at least match or come close to Android devices, OS flexibility and content availability.

BBAW for the PB is the worst app store of any current platform... even more so when it comes to free basic software such as file management, system tools / troubleshooting, office / reading... plus it has a very unfair app update policy if the original license was a giveaway or was at boutght during a sale. When you want to advertise a work product you should offer / give work apps (not games!).

She's a wanksta!!!!!!

"Cheap wanna be rapper, taking a shot at a big name rapper."

- WORD!

Well I did have a yahoo account until this morning. It felt so good canceling this crap. After hearing Marissa Mayer useless comment , l have totally lost all respect for Yahoo. To me, Yahoo can join AOL and. Netscap/Navigator

I have a Yahoo email account. Works great and has some of the best spam filtering I've come across. Their Games section is really good if you like playing cards. Also, their Finance page is pretty sound (except they include story links for Wall St Cheat Sheet which is a joke). It's too bad this dumbass is going to ruin the company (even worse than it is now)

For years I have always preferred Yahoo for my homepage on my PC...until I read this post. Buh-bye Yahoo.

Wasn't she the one that the NYT wrote about that was "embarrassed" by her Blackberry?

Ooops, wrong flake. Sorry!

Just tweeted the following: @marissamayer Haven't used Yahoo for years, will keep my Blackberry thank you, Hitler was also Time Person of the Year.

I love my BlackBerry but I never feel like a step child if my beloved BB is not mentioned. Who cares that she didn't mention the BB I use yahoomail and that's it, the search engine is lame always has been! She should however choose her words carefully the tech market can change at the blink of an eye and there are clearly very many brand sensitive people out there and they will remember such things like not being mentioned! Who cares what anyone says about my beloved BB, I use it because it works for me and I don't need to defend myself or rant about it either!

I just don't get Marissa Mayer's actions. It was a comment meant to be deliberately hurtful unnecessarily towards RIM execs . She could have said we are replacing our blackberries with more modern smartphones. One extra word 'modern' would have made a massive difference. It's one thing for one struggling company to be catty with another struggling company. She went one step further and pissed off a giant by hiring away a top Google exec to be her COO. Google is her recent former employee of just a few months ago and the one which helped her get where she is today. Arrogance can be afforded to Steve Jobs when you are top. Don't alienate through unwarranted arrogance when you are at the bottom.

Really? It wasn't enough to point out where she was wrong without resorting to a "nice dress" sarcasm comment? Like you really had to boil it down to that when you'd done a fine job of pointing out why she was wrong without resorting to that petty sexism? Which in turn seems to have fostered that same petty sexism in many of these commenters who have no right to say when a woman should go back to work after pregnancy or think it's their business what she wears even if you don't think it's "nice" by your standards? Ugh, grow up.

She's 100% right ALL Blackberry's from OS7 go down is crap I await to try BB10 but still the experience I doubt would be as good as my iPhone.