Their user interface was a true gem - beautiful yet functional. The devices were incredibly fast, and the optical cursor was a revelation. I genuinely believe the way the trackpad cursor functions on the iPad is inspired by BlackBerry’s design.

They owned their space in their time, nothing came close, and then, one day, times have changed and their product become obsolete. I don't blame them.

It's cool to sit on HN and think everyone should pivot on a yearly basis, but in reality it rarely happens for companies that big. It takes a lot of time and effort to change to course of a tanker ship, and when you're in position that you have a product that is precisely on point, competition can't touch you, the most reasonable thing to do is just not to fuck things up... and then it's too late. Sometimes. Most of the time it's the winning strategy.

If anything, Nokia was distaster.

So it makes sense not to rock the boat.

It would be like trying to write code on an iPhone today.

Android, courtesy of being open source, was just able to move much faster

I think if they had just open sourced the OS, like Android, instead of killing it, Windows Phone could have been a decent Android competitor