I've been using BB 10 for over 2 years and none of what you say resonates with me.

Where do you get spam alerts from? I presume you don't mean emails but I don't even get promotional emails from BlackBerry and don't remember opting out ever...

Cut and paste is fantastic - and that's from someone who's used both Android and iPhone extensively in the past. In fact keyboard and multi-tasking are two of the reasons I bought a (touch screen) blackberry...

I'll admit boot time isn't the best, but I never turned my phone off and I've got 3 day battery life on my passport so I've never run out of battery before hitting a charger, so a moot point to me.

Also no idea what you are talking about for services. I'm sure if you didn't use any integrated key features on any OS it would bug you to use them though.

You can also unsubscribe from their newsletter. Copy/Paste doesn't seem that bad.

He never signed into BBID. Which is a required feature for BlackBerry. He just doesn't know how to use his phone.

Sent from my Passport ;)

Also, since this thread seems to have a lot of BlackBerry users, check out my appp Reader YC.

Reader YC must be one of the apps I use the most on my Passport. Thanks for creating it :)

Seems like an odd list of criticism. I thought every phone booted slowly but it doesn't generally matter because it's so rare. I haven't rebooted my Blackberry since 10.3 was released and I don't remember that being especially slow.

Have you tried using an Android without creating a Google account? It didn't seem possible but I didn't really have any motivation to fight the prompts. I'm a bit surprised if iOS doesn't do something similar. Why not just create the account?

I've never seen an alert from my phone trying to sell another. I think your carrier is just spamming you.

I've not noticed a problem with cut and paste; what's so disastrous for you?

The difference is this.

iOS devices boot in about 30 seconds - they don't give you progress reports or anything to tell you how long it will take to boot, just the logo and then it's on, all cylinders firing. It's a design decision which means you don't actually notice how long it's taking. The blackberry on the other hand has a progress bar which creeps along, giving a much longer perceived sense of time.

All phones need you to sign up for an account to get the best from them - the difference is that blackberry and android let you use the phone without one, whereas apple does not. Thus, the other two annoy users who haven't created an account with popups, whereas with Apple, you are never hassled because you have had to sign up to use it.

Cut and paste on BB is confusing - again, iOS is relatively simple (although not perfect) tap words > copy, tap empty space > paste

I'm not sycophantically promoting the iphone, but Apple understand that users want an easy to use phone. No hassling to do this or that, no 'launch pad' of apps which you then have to tap another icon on to get to all of your other apps, they are just all presented on the swipable screens. BB and Android both fail to 'get' this, still.

I get the feeling a lot of people form their phone opinions without actually giving the others a chance. I have an Android tablet (Nexus 7) but my iOS experience is mostly helping my daughter when her iPod starts acting weird. I touched a my father's Windows Phone once. I'm happy with a BB phone, don't like Android phones and see nothing attractive about iPhone's.

Are there people who honestly compare the different OS's regularly? I'm skeptical an honest comparison is even possible at this point.

Blackberry hasn't had a progress bar during boot in years, not since BB 10. Thinking of BB OS 7 maybe?

I rarely use an iOS device but I don't remember cut/paste working different than it does on BB.

I agree with your comment about a launch pad, but that's an Android thing. Blackberry and Apple seem comparable in how they present installed applications. BB is really different about running apps, but honestly BB's approach seems simpler to me.

There seem to be quite a few people who use a BlackBerry for work or BBM, and an iPhone or Android for everything else. These people should have a pretty understanding of both platforms - they're just probably not tech bloggers :)

You don't have to sign in to use an iPhone as a dumbphone with a nice camera.

There is not even one Apple account that rules the system - you can use different Apple IDs each for the App Store, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime and Game Center (and probably TestFlight now). Apple even keeps bugging you about signing up for Game Center if you are "only" logged into all the other services with your Apple ID. I think it's quite messy, but at least it is easy to selectively share an Apple ID with your SO (e.g. shared purchases and photos, but separate iMessage).

I used the iPhone for a while after a factory reset without entering an Apple ID. It "works", if you don't mind not having access to the App Store at all. I spent a lot of time in Safari.

I understood copy and paste without any problem.

I have both the Blackberry Q10 and the Iphone6. Work provides the Iphone and I prefer the Blackberry. Ironically I do more work / email /txt etc etc on the Blackberry and the Iphone is pretty much a company paid hotspot and a gaming system.

I have a q5 (the least powerfull bb10) and boot time is not that horrible. A little long yes but still less than 5 minute. I don't mind. Overall, it is a good phone (with glitch, yes but does other phone os don't have some ?).

I will probably switch to android however because of some app missing. The there is no app on blackberry is not true anymore, but still many are missing (uber, skype is buggy...).

Maybe you had a defective unit? I've been using BB10 for over two years and have never experienced any of the issues you describe. Cut and paste and text editing in general are one of the biggest "wow" features when I show people my Passport.