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Re:What killed Blackberry? Employees started buying their ow... by nknighthb on Sunday September 22, 2013 @03:31AM (#6426119)
That speaks to how bad everybody else was. The first BlackBerry was technologically similar to contemporary PalmOS devices with a GSM module bolted on. Boring. Predictable. But they actually worked.

RIM won by showing up and not being totally incompetent. They lost by being complacent.

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Re:What killed Blackberry? Employees started buying their ow... by nrmilstein on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:42PM (#6435822)
Everything kind of looks bad to me now pre-iPhone – the things was seriously years ahead of its time.
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