BlackBerry Z10 (CDMA)

Yes, BB7 and prior have Pandora and other apps. BB10 will not have this available at launch.

"Essential apps" as I said are merely my opinion for myself I as well as several others use Netfix, Hulu, Pandora and Gmail with quite a bit of regularity not saying it won't be developed for BB10 furthermore I am not saying the approximately 70k apps available won't expand.

Im just concerned that this would be quite a bit of a gamble and sacrifice of immediate functionality for users who opt to take this on as a daily driver device.

Apple, Android and Microsoft have a ready to use out of the box product that will fit most people's demands without sacrifice and to add to what I said earlier BB failed to act in time to retain their market relevance. Why should someone gamble on this device just to wait for BB to play catch up to what is already available on the market? Honestly the Z10 looks like another Android clone.

As much as I dislike Apple, this is what BB gets for calling the iPhone an irrelevant fad that will pass instead of doing what everybody else did which was sit up and take immediate action back in 2007 when the iPhone was released.