I am a big fan of the traditional Blackberry philosophy of building hardware and software that can get work done quickly in as few steps as possible.
With the release of OS10, Blackberry effectively had to build a new OS from scratch. This is a ton of work and as a result, many of the refinements that were added to OS7 over the years are now missing. I have read many forum posts of people requesting feature x to be added back to the platform. Blackberry has finite resources for development and testing and simply can’t implement everything all at once. As a result, these posts become effectively nothing but noise. It was clear to me that forums alone are an ineffective method for getting Blackberry the information it needs for what features to implement next.
What is required is a “single source of truth” or a curated list of all requested new features and the relative popularity of each. I have decided to take ownership of this problem and attempt to solve this at a global scale by providing a common platform for everyone to voice their requests.
I have created a new voting poll that I intend to be a living list of new feature requests for the Blackberry 10 operating system. I am formally offering myself as the official curator of these requests. You can see the first iteration of the poll below that includes a number of feature requests that I personally have after using my Classic for several days. My hope is that others will review my list and if they agree can vote on those items. Alternatively they can add their own. I will be monitoring the new submissions and if they don’t already exist or are not entirely unreasonable I will add them to the poll.
Below is the poll and the questions. Please if possible leave feedback either here or on the official poll website (available at http://poll.fm/536y9) as the feedback is required to correlate the numbers in the polls to show the relative interest in a given feature and to give this poll the weight it needs to have any hope of affecting change.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please leave them in the comments as well. I want to make this a tool that the entire Blackberry community can leverage and maybe, just maybe influence the behavior of Blackberry itself!
If you would like to see new feature requests added to this poll or changes to the existing entires, please add the entry to the “other” field in the poll and then leave comments on how you feel your idea should be implemented.
View the post for details on each feature request