The Rise and Fall of Blackberry

"In the tech world, when you start playing catchup you've already lost" That's a very real statement. I love this video, I'm subscribing

A company called RESEARCH In Motion failed to do adequate research. Ironic.

I owned blackberry for 8 years and my last one, a Bold lasted 4 years during my residency training. It was hands down THE BEST WORK PHONE you can hope for. Excellent voice call quality, texting/emailing was incredibly fast with physical keyboard, its smaller form size was ironically an advantage as you can handle it easily. Robust enough to survive multiple drops from standing height without a beefy phone case. Battery survived well into 24 hour without recharge so great in night shifts. The real flaws is the dearth of app and smaller screen real estate limiting web browsing experience. I honestly still miss at work.

BB made some of the most beautiful devices. Even today when I look at them, I feel like buying one for the heck of it.

that was actually one of the saddest falls of a big company imo

"They simply kept producing the same phone model over and over again" Sounds... Familiar

I worked in product support at RIM from 2008 to 2012. That was one hell of a ride to the bottom. Mike became non-existant and Jeff was too busy trying to buy an NHL team rather than work.

They should have adopted Android in 2010 and offer a more secure version of Android with BBM.

"They were at the top and complacency crept in" Looks at Apple

I had Nokia first and then Blackberry because of BBM. BBM truly killed SMS. Thank you Blackberry for this innovation.

BBM was part of my teen years. Like MSN and ICQ were part of my childhood.

I cant wait till you make a Video of "the comeback of Blackberry"

I remember my blackberry bold. It was such a great phone.

"They simply kept producing the same phone model over and over again" Me Looking to iphones .

I had a blackberry pearl, the one with a dodgy trackball in the middle of the keypad. The trackball was a really love/hate type of thing, and pretty much inevitably stopped working as dust clogged it up. Really loved how the pearl felt in my hand though, perfect size for using one-handed.

Just so you know, I spent an entire evening writing the captions for this video about a year back only to never have them approved and put up. A smidge frustrating.

I remember owning a Blackberry and typed soo much that my finger had these button shaped holes in it 😂 But damn was it satisfying typing on that Qwerty keypad. I remember taking it to school once & all my friends gathered me to have a look at it. Those were the days

I always used to dream that I would buy a Blackberry when I'd grow to be an adult, but now, all is lost...

The Blackberry 8700c is still, to this day, the best phone I've ever owned. The physical keyboard, the one handed operation through the scroll wheel, BBM... all amazing.

I like these Cold Fusion videos. I had a number of Blackberries. At the time they were great but in spite of their subsequent failure to read the market correctly, they were a vital innovative stepping stone towards where technology is today.