📞BlackBerry Movie vs True Story

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The new Matt Johnson movie starring Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel documents the true story of the BlackBerry phone. But how close does it stay to the truth? Check out today's episode to find out!
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00:00 intro
01:04 book review
02:40 movie review
04:40 Mike and Jim
9:00 Jim Balsillie
10:20 Doug
13:07 the BlackBerry
15:17 Palm Pilot takeover
17:28 the iPhone
20:24 Jim and the NHL
22:18 SEC
24:36 patent lawsuit
26:03 movie ending
28:18 final thoughts
30:40 book vs movie

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@readingandambience Жыл бұрын

I feel like I can still remember the progression of phones I saw in my life. The Nokia brick phones, the flip phones, the nextel walkie talkie phones, then the first phone that I remember taking the world by storm, the Razr, followed by sliding keyboard phones (Sidekick and Chocolate), then trying to make all electronics as small as possible which led to the Juke, then I remember the Blackberry, and finally the Iphone. Funny enough, I have been an android user for forever, but I don't even remember when android smart phones became mainstream.

@WhytheBookWins Жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember my sister and I had a pink razr we shared any I thought it was so cool! I've always been an android person too. The book gets more into android and how that came about after the iPhone announcement

@robmausser 2 ай бұрын

Android slowly crept up behind the scenes during the time that iPhone got all the press and limelight. Thats why its hard to remember.

@guyinc0gnito 11 ай бұрын

Great video! As far as I can tell this is the only video on KZfaq about Blackberry book vs movie-way to fill a market niche!

@WhytheBookWins 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@mikecane 11 ай бұрын

Saw the movie. It was great. Glad you did this video. I'm waiting for the library book -- people ahead of me for it. EDIT to add: Palm's Yankowski was an ass like that in real life. Hilarious that people will only know him due to a movie about BlackBerry!

@WhytheBookWins 11 ай бұрын

Yeah pretty hilarious 😆 Hope you enjoy the book!

@G_Stalgia 2 ай бұрын

I just watches the movie and i must say ur recall is impeccable lol also we talk about this like it was ancient history ,it wasnt that long ago. I still have my BBbold and it works lol. Also i was working my first job when cingular came out with apples iphone and i distinctly remember our ceo ,the smar guy from the movie stan sigmond or whatever pushing sales of the iphone heavy.. he even hinted that a watch from apple may be coming out soon... and this was in 2007 way before the apple watch was heard about in public...

@travisnaganuma2542 Жыл бұрын

I had a BlackBerry I don't remember which version early on and then later on I got the storm and I thought that was so cool. I do remember wanting an iPhone when it came out I was on Verizon along with several family members so switching to AT&T was just really unappealing. When they released iPhone on Verizon that's when I got my first iPhone.

@WhytheBookWins Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@Menstral 4 ай бұрын

Blackberry movie - it goes to show you that the people who are creative with technology often aren't the foot soldiers needed to deliver a corporate mass produced product. The was a part in the movie where he talked about everybody having to suffer because the technical people chose not to be both competent and creative... That was great. The corpulent corporate douche COO might be effective at pumping out the units, but he destroyed the soul of the company that made coming to work enjoyable. Of course it doesn't matter how much of a hard ass you are, if you're diligently promoting the wrong product.

@MikeODea-qf1ed 5 ай бұрын

This was an awesome review. You're great! You will have 50k subs in no time. Keep going.

@WhytheBookWins 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😁

@josephcamhi5676 7 ай бұрын

Thanks. I just saw the movie and loved it. I was wondering if in real life, according to the book, if Mike was an engineering genius like he is portrayed in the movie. Also, did Mike come up with the technology?

@WhytheBookWins 7 ай бұрын

I believe the answer to both questions is yes. But I do recall there being a lawsuit involving something with the email patent because someone else had also come up with it.

@josephcamhi5676 7 ай бұрын

@@WhytheBookWins Yeah, I don't think it was stolen by Blackberry. I think it was simply because the man came up with the idea on his own and patented it first. I think that happens in the tech industry. Is that how it was portrayed in the book?

@MikeODea-qf1ed 5 ай бұрын

Please consider doing a review on the book stealing myspace. There's isn't a movie but there are a lot of short docs on KZfaq with the real facts and also an interview with Kevin Anderson and Tai Lopez.

@WhytheBookWins 5 ай бұрын

Sounds interesting! Thanks for the suggestion

@MikeODea-qf1ed 5 ай бұрын

@@WhytheBookWins I'll keep my eyes open for an other adaptions. Have a great day.

@savvvytyler Жыл бұрын

Hey, how much do you read per day? Pages? Or hours?

@WhytheBookWins Жыл бұрын

Honestly it varies. This month I've had days I don't read anything. But other days I'll listen to an hour or two of an audiobook. Some days I do the audiobook, plus another hour or two of reading. Then I've had days where I read for a good chunk of the day! So I don't have any kind of routine, it just depends lol. But since I read on my kindle I go by time not pages

@savvvytyler Жыл бұрын

@@WhytheBookWins thanks! I have trouble being consistent sometimes - just wondering how you do it😌

@WhytheBookWins Жыл бұрын

@@savvvytyler yeah most days I make it a priority over other hobbies (or with audiobooks I combine hobbies).