The Rise and Fall of the Blackberry

AytonMews said:
Diesel
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Heh - He was always getting it out and showing off the physical keyboard and BBM etc.

Funny thing was none of our friend group had Blackberrys so no idea who he was using BBM to contact.

Anyway we did him a favour as about a week later he turned up to the pub with a HTC Dream.

W@nker.
 
The film Blackberry is now on Sky Cinema

Watched it last night and it's pretty good. What a story of rise and fall it is. A small tight bunch of nerds producing the worlds foremost hand held email portal and losing out too Apple as they didn't see the touch screen taking off. And when they did it was too late. they were no longer innovators.
 
Zoophonic said:
The film Blackberry is now on Sky Cinema

Watched it last night and it's pretty good. What a story of rise and fall it is. A small tight bunch of nerds producing the worlds foremost hand held email portal and losing out too Apple as they didn't see the touch screen taking off. And when they did it was too late. they were no longer innovators.
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I haven’t seen it yet, you could’ve added a spoiler alert.

No point in watching it now.
 
Never got on with Blackberry (big hands), in my opinion the best failed mobile phones were Windows OS. Much better OS than Apple or Android it was logical, clean to look at and intuitive to use. But too late to market.
 
Without watching the film, I would imagine the demise of Blackberry (and Nokia) coincided with the transition of phones no longer being primarily used for their original purpose ( phone calls) to becoming portable media devices and the rise of social media sites such as tik tok and instagram?
 
caravan club said:
Without watching the film, I would imagine the demise of Blackberry (and Nokia) coincided with the transition of phones no longer being primarily used for their original purpose ( phone calls) to becoming portable media devices and the rise of social media sites such as tik tok and instagram?
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Pretty much although given the market position with blackberry and the engineers they had onboard at RIM they could have developed a portable pocket computer had they had the foresight and innovation to go down that route.The film implied the CEO Balsillie took his eye off the ball with his fanciful ideas of owning a NHL franchise at the time Apple launched the IPhone

The overriding line at the end of the film. “ Communications companies don’t sell minutes anymore they sell data”.
 
Muttley said:
Never got on with Blackberry (big hands), in my opinion the best failed mobile phones were Windows OS. Much better OS than Apple or Android it was logical, clean to look at and intuitive to use. But too late to market.
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I would agree with windows os it was great but I lived the final iteration of Blackberry. My Blackberry passport was one of the best phones I've ever seen. The OS with live tiles and integrated messenger was great, the keyboard excellent and call and signal quality wad way better than what you get now
 
It was that security aspect of BlackBerry’s that thought corporate usage would never move to the iPhone. Certainly my company never made that move in the 2010’s until they had to and blackberry was no longer a phone device.
 
Zoophonic said:
It was that security aspect of BlackBerry’s that thought corporate usage would never move to the iPhone. Certainly my company never made that move in the 2010’s until they had to and blackberry was no longer a phone device.
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It remained the drug dealers' phone of choice for some time, primarily for security reasons.
 
Still have my BB Bold somewhere gathering dust. Will donate it to the science museum in about 20 years time.
 
Never had a Blackberry and always thought they looked fiddly and sh1t. Was an early adopter of the iPhone (mainly for music reasons) and can’t say I regret it.
 
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