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I guess along these lines, one piece that Blackberry had was the ability to "hold" or "filter" e-mails if they didn't meet some specified criteria, especially during certain timeframes. For example, I don't necessarily need to get the e-mail from Joe at 1am sent just because Joe couldn't sleep. However, if the servers crash at 1am I want to be alerted.
There's just nothing out there right now that lets you set up rules for notifications/alerts based on some criteria and time of day. That means that if I'm on-call it's all or nothing. If some service not under my control goes haywire and starts sending alerts every 5 minutes, I get them mixed in with things I need to see and act on. That makes for a poor night's sleep.
A lot of my other changes are being slowly addressed, though I still disagree about putting apps in the background rather than closing them most times. More memory on devices, more storage - happening.
The only other thing I'd really like to see would be real OS updates so we can stop depending on the carriers and vendors just to get a relatively minor (or even major) update to the OS. We don't have that in the PC world and it's not a good experience in the WM devices. I've been hit three times now with the carrier/manufacturer pretty much stopping newer OS's from getting to my still capable device. I could understand if I bought towards the end of the product cycle, but I've bought several of these when they were pretty new only to see the carriers not supporting upgrades. I'm quite grateful for the external sites that have helped me get some extended life from my devices.
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