If it weren’t for the NSA, BlackBerry would be the reigning champion of negative revelations about their company and products in 2013.
The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) has decamped BlackBerry.
Earlier this year, seven members of the Swedish design house acquired by the smartphone maker to help develop BlackBerry 10, left it to found a new design group called Topp. The seven — James Haliburton, Anders Larsson, Roger Andersson Reimer, Anton Boman, Michael Winberg, Oscar Olivestedt and Marcus Eriksson — played key roles in developing BlackBerry’s next-generation OS, leading core framework and visual design, and stewarding product management for UI frameworks.