{"id":11859,"date":"2023-10-15T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/blackberry-smartphone-was-status-symbol-then-crashed-and-burned\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:37:55","slug":"blackberry-smartphone-was-status-symbol-then-crashed-and-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/blackberry-smartphone-was-status-symbol-then-crashed-and-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry smartphone was status symbol then crashed and burned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubbed the \u2018crackberry\u2019, it was a tech gamechanger and status symbol. So what happened to the first smartphone and why didn\u2019t the execs see it coming?<\/p>\n

A decade and a half ago, there was no bigger status symbol than the BlackBerry. Lady Gaga tweeted from hers. Madonna slept with one under her pillow. Kim Kardashian owned three of them. When he became president, Barack Obama fought tooth and nail<\/a> to be able to keep his device. When Naomi Campbell lost her temper with a housekeeper in 2006, which household object did she choose to use as a projectile weapon? That\u2019s right, it was the humble BlackBerry. Without any overstatement, they were everywhere.<\/p>\n

And yet, when was the last time you thought about BlackBerry? A year ago? A decade ago? More? The BlackBerry currently occupies a genuinely strange space in the culture. It swept in with such gamechanging ferocity \u2013 here was a phone that allowed you to send emails, liberating its user from the tyranny of the office \u2013 only to be displaced just as quickly when Apple announced the iPhone. BlackBerry\u2019s ups and downs were so sudden and violent that they\u2019re now almost impossible to comprehend.<\/p>\n

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\nDubbed the \u2018crackberry\u2019, it was a tech gamechanger and status symbol. So what happened to the first smartphone and why didn\u2019t the execs see it coming?A decade and a half ago, there was no bigger status symbol than the BlackBerry. Lady Gaga tweeted from hers. Madonna slept with one under her pillow. Kim Kardashian owned three of them. When he became president, Barack Obama fought tooth and nail to be able to keep his device. When Naomi Campbell lost her temper with a housekeeper in 2006, which household object did she choose to use as a projectile weapon? That\u2019s right, it was the humble BlackBerry. Without any overstatement, they were everywhere.
\nAnd yet, when was the last time you thought about BlackBerry? A year ago? A decade ago? More? The BlackBerry currently occupies a genuinely strange space in the culture. It swept in with such gamechanging ferocity \u2013 here was a phone that allowed you to send emails, liberating its user from the tyranny of the office \u2013 only to be displaced just as quickly when Apple announced the iPhone. BlackBerry\u2019s ups and downs were so sudden and violent that they\u2019re now almost impossible to comprehend. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dubbed the \u2018crackberry\u2019, it was a tech gamechanger and status symbol. So what happened to the first smartphone and why didn\u2019t the execs see it coming? A decade and a half ago, there was no bigger status symbol than the BlackBerry. Lady Gaga tweeted from hers. Madonna slept with one under her pillow. Kim Kardashian …<\/p>\n

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