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Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by snarf21 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:38AM (#21397541)
So true. Blackberry is another example of doing it wrong. I was at presentations of there's when the iPhone was coming out and the CEO was still talking about battery life in pagers. They couldn't see apps taking hold and actually actively blocked it. We had a streaming audio/podcast app that legally re-broadcast other people's stations and they wouldn't support it because they were afraid of the RIAA, etc.
Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an ... by sumedh on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:44PM (#21404920)
> They couldn't see apps taking hold and actually actively blocked it.

Didnt Steve Jobs block the idea of having native third party apps on the first Iphone as well.