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1. This issue is about enforcing draconian control over the software distribution channel. It is about losing the freedom to distribute your app as you see fit. It is about submitting to the whims of the platform vendor, and being willing to take the fall if they don't like you for any reason. The fact that so many people are accepting of this, or apologetic towards the platform vendor, downright disgusts me. If you take any of these discussions, replace "Apple" or "RIM" with "Microsoft" and change the platform in question from a mobile device to a "desktop PC", just think about how many people would start screaming for blood. Many years ago, Microsoft tended to make their offering the "default choice" on their platform. They didn't necessarily lock out competitors. They just preferenced their own offering, so most consumers used it because it was good enough. This alone caused plenty of lawsuits and havoc. Now imagine if they outright forbid the sale and installation of any software that competed with theirs. How would you feel then?
2. Browser plugin support, as mentioned by papped, so we can make our on-device browsing less painful after being used to Firefox and/or Chrome on the desktop. (also a password-saving keychain would be useful for similar reasons) Actual IMAP folder support for the "native e-mail" app that I've found almost worthless due to a lack thereof. And finally, a *released* and usable native API for doing non-game apps. (i.e. Cascades actually available)
3. Is it just me, or does this event sound like a "kids program" for the adults (i.e. "business folks") to send their pesky children (i.e. "developers") off to during BBWC? (BBWC typically doesn't have very much developer content, and is a lot more expensive than DevCon.)
4. I still haven't figured out exactly what this app is used for. (And lack of a browser-integrated password manager is my #1 usability complaint against both the BlackBerry and the PlayBook.)
5. I'm still wondering if they'll ever get around to actually adding an "Events" page to the BB app. (Right now you can just response to invites, and poorly be notified of event page updates.) Seriously, this is a glaring omission and the most annoying deficiency about the app. Quite surprisingly, the PlayBook app actually does have an "Events" page.
6. I wish they could get all those pre-OS5 users to move up to newer phones. As a developer, its a pain to keep supporting them, but there are just enough of them out there that its hard to justify cutting them off.
7. The biggest sync issue I've run into is that the "ASCII Importer / Exporter" feature of DM 6 is now gone. The only sync source the app now claims to support on my system is "Windows Contacts". This is incredibly annoying, as I now have to populate my "Windows Contacts" (thankfully I figured out how) from the ASCII files (at least Win7 still supports importing from a CSV file there) before I can sync the data over to a BB.
8. They've been teasing us with this for a very long time now, so I hope something comes out soon. Without Cascades, there's really no standard UI framework for the NDK. And thus, without Cascades, the NDK is useless for anyone but game developers. And no, no matter how many times companies like RIM try to tell me to, I'm not going to do app development in HTML5/JS.
9. For me, Foursquare still has the very annoying issue of frequently timing out on location lookup. Hard to tell if its GPS timeout or a timeout on the venue search it does after it knows where I am. Seems like their timeouts are a bit too short on something. But in many cases, even when the search hits the timeout, if I explicitly search for the name of the place I'm at, it'll come up with a pretty accurate distance.
10. I'm still waiting for NFC to actually be not-disabled on my 9900. But all the major US carriers joined some "we'll work together on mobile payments, so BLOCK ALL NFC FROM ALL BB DEVICES or else RIM!" alliance.

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