The Rise and Fall of the Blackberry

Cardiffdaffs said:
Good article in this mornings Times. A film is being released on the story of how blackberry (RIM) made catastrophic decisions in the mid naughties and allowed Apple to destroy them.

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times:
How BlackBerry built a $75bn empire — and lost it.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...f?shareToken=93d10a3680b04bb5ac06afaf7a61b01eView attachment 64489
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The films been out a few months. Glen Howerton from its always sunny in a philadelphia is in it.
 
I loved the keyboard layout. I personally found it much easier and faster to use than a touchscreen. I am surprised that such keyboard phones are not really a thing any more, but perhaps it's just me who got on with that lay-out better?
 
Loved them at their peak, instant email was great and enjoyed the physical keyboard compared to most phones.

Build quality was awful though and the track balls usually played up after a while

Then they went touch screen but was one of the worst touch screens out there and after that they were a shadow of themselves
 
For it's time the blackberry passport was the greatest phone. It was so good as an actual phone. Better signal and better call quality than anything, even today's mobiles. Great OS, solidly built and of course the keyboard
 
I never owned A Blackberry phone and I have never owned an Apple product(I don't even have an apple ID or whatever it's called).
 
I was happy with my Nokia and BBC WAP service for news and footy scores. As my mate in the pub at the time was busy reading company emails out of hours ( boring, yawn ) - we both worked at the same place - I was WAP ing away trying to see how my footy bets were doing against in play scores. WAP, those were the days, :giggle:
 
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