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So did everyone and their grandma also have blackberries.
by bobosha 1y ago
So did everyone and their grandma also have blackberries.
- exitb 1y agoIs there a phone out now, or at least on the horizon, that can do significantly more due to better integrated AI?
- mathiaspoint 1y agoYes. Android today can run programs generated by AI assistants locally and the new Linux VM means they can be provided with very complete MCP servers.
- ethbr1 1y agoWhatever OpenAi is trying to cook up.
- geodel 1y agoNo. Blackberries were in pockets of executives and business people.
- empath75 1y agoNo. Blackberry _never_ had the market penetration that apple had. They were an enterprise first company and barely had a foothold in the consumer market. Apple wiped out blackberry in the enterprise market after it dominated the consumer market and it _barely even tried_.
- biker142541 1y agoNo, not really. Peak Blackberry was both tiny compared to iPhone usage today and in a very different context, with very little of the economy or daily lives invested directly into a rich ecosystem dependent on the phones.
- ethbr1 1y agoDisagree. A huge portion of the business world was Blackberry-centric. The cogent lesson is that ecosystems which are fundamentally supported by user network effects should ignore user networks at their peril.
- JimDabell 1y agoBlackBerry peaked at ~80M users. iPhone is currently at ~1.5B. Why are you treating them as if they are even remotely similar?
- nashashmi 1y agoThose people change their phones every two to three years. What kind of lead time is that? It is one where you get phased out quickly. With blackberry they kept it for like five years.