I remember being at RIM when they had a simple, singular vision for Blackberry: email on your phone. That was it. And it worked for a while. BlackBerry grew faster than everyone else and became bigger than everyone else. When the iPhone came out, we all laughed.
“Look at how bad the battery is!”
“Look how slow the email is!”
“All those apps! Who even wants apps? They just get in the way of email.”
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A few years later:
RIM went bust!