Re:Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently wor...
by rchaud on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:32PM
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> You can read what Palm, and Blackberry have said during the iPhone revolution era. And we all know how that turns out.
The majority of comments made pooh-poohing the iPhone were made at public events, and intended to assuage the customers, carriers and partners present that those events. It's not reflective of what they actually believed.
In books like "Losing the Signal" (about Blackberry), journalists followed up with Blackberry execs and discovered that BB considered the iPhone a gamechanger, even if they doubted that the AT&T 3G network could handle millions of data-hungry iPhones. And in the early days, that was true. The first 3 generations of iPhones had significant complaints about dropped calls.
The majority of comments made pooh-poohing the iPhone were made at public events, and intended to assuage the customers, carriers and partners present that those events. It's not reflective of what they actually believed.
In books like "Losing the Signal" (about Blackberry), journalists followed up with Blackberry execs and discovered that BB considered the iPhone a gamechanger, even if they doubted that the AT&T 3G network could handle millions of data-hungry iPhones. And in the early days, that was true. The first 3 generations of iPhones had significant complaints about dropped calls.