{"id":11773,"date":"2023-10-05T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/blackberry-review-souped-up-account-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-crackberry\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:37:45","slug":"blackberry-review-souped-up-account-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-crackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/blackberry-review-souped-up-account-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-crackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry review \u2013 souped-up account of the rise and fall of \u2018Crackberry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hilarity and pathos intertwine in this likable comedy as the smartphone creators go loopy with wealth \u2013 and slack-jawed when the iPhone spoils the party<\/p>\n

Here is a punchy Canadian comedy-drama in that burgeoning true-life genre which could loosely be called Tech Startup Hubris; we\u2019ve seen Dumb Money<\/a> (about GameStop), WeCrashed<\/a> (about WeWork), and The Beanie Bubble<\/a> (about the bizarre 90s web-driven tulip-style craze for Beanie Babies). The great ancestor of them all is naturally David Fincher\u2019s The Social Network<\/a>, about Facebook, with its propulsive script by Aaron Sorkin. This film is a fictionally souped-up account of the steep rise and sudden fall of the BlackBerry, the handset device that towards the end of the 00s was so ubiquitous and addictive among the white-collar classes it was known as the \u201cCrackberry\u201d.<\/p>\n

But then Steve Jobs unveiled his iPhone, and the BlackBerry executives suddenly looked like a bunch of brontosauruses that had been hit in the face by a meteor.<\/p>\n

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\nHilarity and pathos intertwine in this likable comedy as the smartphone creators go loopy with wealth \u2013 and slack-jawed when the iPhone spoils the party
\nHere is a punchy Canadian comedy-drama in that burgeoning true-life genre which could loosely be called Tech Startup Hubris; we\u2019ve seen Dumb Money (about GameStop), WeCrashed (about WeWork), and The Beanie Bubble (about the bizarre 90s web-driven tulip-style craze for Beanie Babies). The great ancestor of them all is naturally David Fincher\u2019s The Social Network, about Facebook, with its propulsive script by Aaron Sorkin. This film is a fictionally souped-up account of the steep rise and sudden fall of the BlackBerry, the handset device that towards the end of the 00s was so ubiquitous and addictive among the white-collar classes it was known as the \u201cCrackberry\u201d.
\nBut then Steve Jobs unveiled his iPhone, and the BlackBerry executives suddenly looked like a bunch of brontosauruses that had been hit in the face by a meteor. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hilarity and pathos intertwine in this likable comedy as the smartphone creators go loopy with wealth \u2013 and slack-jawed when the iPhone spoils the party Here is a punchy Canadian comedy-drama in that burgeoning true-life genre which could loosely be called Tech Startup Hubris; we\u2019ve seen Dumb Money (about GameStop), WeCrashed (about WeWork), and The …<\/p>\n

Blackberry review \u2013 souped-up account of the rise and fall of \u2018Crackberry\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}