There's no way this only hit 250k users. I have a bunch of Twitter accounts for testing and whatever, created over many years, and they all received this email.
Everything you just stated is gimmick. Physical keyboards are over.
And the "true multitasking" sort of works (pretty much as well as Anroid) only because they bolted 2GB of RAM onto the thing.
BlackBerry are dead. The OS looks like amateur hour, the icons look inspired by Windows XP, and even their default font is badly rendered everywhere. The Android emulator is unusably slow (nothing like what it was in the desktop simulator) and pointless. It should be removed.
It's a decent beta, but that's about it. They're done.
We've tried switching from GH Enterprise to Stash (because of the $5000 thing, which pisses me off and makes me feel like I'm being ripped off at the same time!), but it's really "not there yet".
The file browser sucks, the repo management doesn't make sense (repos live in projects, instead of organization/project or person/project), you can't run git via ssh on port 22, no activity stream (so you need to combine it with Fisheye), etc.
The price of Stash is really the price of Stash + Fisheye. At that point you're only looking at $2500, but still. Unfortunately for us, GitHub issue tracking and wiki suck compared to Jira/Confluence. So we run GH Enterprise + JIRA + Confluence. :)
There's nothing innovative about a bad business model.
One-time forever pricing for a service which costs you ongoing money to run is suicide unless you're subsidizing it somehow.
You have to have a subscription Basecamp account to buy the $25 one-off thing. So you're essentially paying a fee to hide projects that you don't want in your company Basecamp.
This is essentially a free tier with a one off filter.