{"id":11793,"date":"2023-10-08T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/blackberry-review-smartphone-buy-opic-is-a-wild-ride\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T05:37:17","slug":"blackberry-review-smartphone-buy-opic-is-a-wild-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/blackberry-review-smartphone-buy-opic-is-a-wild-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry review \u2013 smartphone \u2018buy-opic\u2019 is a wild ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Johnson\u2019s boisterous drama about the rise and fall of the mobile \u2013 and the Canadian nerds who created it \u2013 diverges refreshingly from the usual arc of product success stories<\/p>\n

Tech years are like dog years. Less than a decade and a half has passed since the early 2010 sheyday of the BlackBerry smartphone<\/a>. But in the accelerated world of technology, the once coveted accessory of any self-respecting business bigshot or self-promoting celebrity (Paris Hilton used to carry five of them at a time) now might as well be an ancient relic.<\/p>\n

By any standard, the BlackBerry story is a wild ride \u2013 going from a prototype cobbled together from bits of a pocket calculator to a product so addictive that it was nicknamed the CrackBerry; from a share of the US mobile phone market that was at one point estimated at about 40% to virtual oblivion in the space of just a few years. Based on the 2015 book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry<\/em>, the film, directed by Matt Johnson (The Dirties<\/a><\/em>), is a boisterous account of the boom-and-bust, crash-and-burn trajectory of one of the world\u2019s first smartphones and the chaotic collection of Canadian nerds that created it.<\/p>\n

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\nMatt Johnson\u2019s boisterous drama about the rise and fall of the mobile \u2013 and the Canadian nerds who created it \u2013 diverges refreshingly from the usual arc of product success stories
\nTech years are like dog years. Less than a decade and a half has passed since the early 2010 sheyday of the BlackBerry smartphone. But in the accelerated world of technology, the once coveted accessory of any self-respecting business bigshot or self-promoting celebrity (Paris Hilton used to carry five of them at a time) now might as well be an ancient relic.
\nBy any standard, the BlackBerry story is a wild ride \u2013 going from a prototype cobbled together from bits of a pocket calculator to a product so addictive that it was nicknamed the CrackBerry; from a share of the US mobile phone market that was at one point estimated at about 40% to virtual oblivion in the space of just a few years. Based on the 2015 book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, the film, directed by Matt Johnson (The Dirties), is a boisterous account of the boom-and-bust, crash-and-burn trajectory of one of the world\u2019s first smartphones and the chaotic collection of Canadian nerds that created it. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Johnson\u2019s boisterous drama about the rise and fall of the mobile \u2013 and the Canadian nerds who created it \u2013 diverges refreshingly from the usual arc of product success stories Tech years are like dog years. Less than a decade and a half has passed since the early 2010 sheyday of the BlackBerry smartphone. …<\/p>\n

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