The Decline of BlackBerry...What Happened?

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The Decline of BlackBerry...What Happened?

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BlackBerry once made some of the most advanced, best selling phones on the market. Yet here we are only about a decade from their peak and they're already almost completely irrelevant. This video outlines the rapid rise and fall of BlackBerry while attempting to explain the reasons behind it.
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@AFOS94 2 жыл бұрын

I owned a blackberry when I was in high school. Most of my friends had one too. It wasn’t for business, it was a status symbol. The iPhone ended up taking over that lane.

@movieplug5117 2 жыл бұрын

Yooo if u had a blackberry in school u was the man

@floraflowers 2 жыл бұрын

In my country, both the Blackberry and the iPhone were a status symbol. The Blackberry showed that you probably had a person who worked at a big/multinational company, whereas the iPhone basically told everyone that your parents were rich. Eventually though, they were both overtaken by Samsung when it released its Galaxy line.

@vhj2151 2 жыл бұрын

Y’all must be old 😭😂

@AFOS94 2 жыл бұрын

@@vhj2151 I’m 27

@AFOS94 2 жыл бұрын

@@movieplug5117 facts!! 😩🤣

@forgetmilk2818 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Waterloo where blackberry was founded, they made our city a huge tech hub. They're not really talked about anymore but our city is huge in tech and is home to a lot of tech start ups which I think blackberry contributed too.

@Allister2000 3 жыл бұрын

The University is known for its CS programs so I think both UW and Blackberry propelled Waterloo into what it is today.

@InASpiralState 3 жыл бұрын

waterloo also has their own google location which is pretty dope

@jonathandosman5496 3 жыл бұрын

I too live in waterloo, the silicon valley of the north!

@jamesperih9658 3 жыл бұрын

And all the startups moving into the sold BlackBerry campuses.

@dannyk847 3 жыл бұрын

I too live In Waterloo and waiting for Mennonites to start using blackberry phones

@sdot5389 2 жыл бұрын

The thing you miss about the physical keyboard is that it wasn’t easily adaptable to other languages that had other alphabets or symbol structures. They actually had to build different hardware for different global markets. This is where the iPhone and eventually android devices killed them….new keyboards were just a touch of a button away.

@mcmlxv9827 Жыл бұрын

I had a couple of Blackberry's including the Curve, one had the round trackball and the other had a square track pad. The one with the round trackball was my favorite phone of all time. It was heavy duty and durable. I owned a business and got one for my asst manager. It was a great phone, great messenger, just an awesome tool. They were referred to as "Crackberry's" as they were addictive, although strangely, people nowadays are actually addicted to their phones. I miss my old Blackberry.

@rickvenuto8944 11 ай бұрын

Wow, I forgot about that ball that was like a mouse. It was pretty cool.

@Lowshyne 3 ай бұрын

That little ball was sick. Anyone else remember brick breaker?

@bjmaguireii 3 жыл бұрын

My dad had a blackberry and it was his whole personality for a time😂

@bjorn4884 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@livingminimumwage6359 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I read through the comments because it turns out, I wasn't the only one having the same experience with my old man lmao He thought it was such a cool thing! And at the time, it totally was.

@ninety12 3 жыл бұрын

that's people with iPhone now lol 😂

@James-es1fg 3 жыл бұрын

It was my personality when I had one I would go back to them if their ecosystem wasn’t an abortion.

@dreagonzalez1896 3 жыл бұрын

i am your dad 😔

@mastahc0w 3 жыл бұрын

Customers weren't loyal to any carrier, we were held captive by them back in the day. Remember the days of mult-year contracts?

@retrogaminggenesis6102 3 жыл бұрын

Still sucks now but that was truly aweful

@grandetaco4416 3 жыл бұрын

Back then jail break was a big deal and came with a lot of baggage, ATT and Apple did not want verizon.

@joshua.harazin 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah now we have multi-year phone financing agreements. Yay progress.

@floraflowers 2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't this still exist? I don't know about the US, but in European countries it's very common to sign a 2-year contract with your carrier and once it's close to its due date, you'll suddenly be getting all types of deals and promotions on replacing your phone with a newer model. Also, if by whatever reason you "threaten" them by saying you'll find another carrier as soon as your contract ends, you also magically get new deals like a new phone even though your contract is not even halfway through those 2 years or maybe even a small deduction from the cost of your monthly plan. They didn't really scrap multi-year contracts to make you loyal, they just changed tactics.

@GalacticKid2006 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why that existed? At least we can now switch carriers freely

@mickcollins1921 Жыл бұрын

I had a blackberry in 2007 as a college student and a young army officer. I was one of the verizon people who couldn't get an iphone and was generally opposed to Apple for a variety of reasons. The blackberry served my needs well enough, but it was pretty inflexible and aside from calls and emails it just didn't do much. I ultimately swapped to a different flip phone style a couple of years later when I got back from a deployment and my blackberry was super outdated. The blackberry just didn't have enough practical value to justify its cost. Then, a few years later a company I worked for gave me an iPhone as a company phone. I got hooked on Apple and have been with them ever since. I had the 5 for work, then got a 5s for personal use, then got a 7, then an Xr and now a 13 pro max. If Blackberry had been in the game with my employer, I might have been 'recaptured' as a customer, but by then they were dying their slow death.

@ArgoDave Жыл бұрын

My wife bought a BlackBerry Priv, because she liked the physical keyboard and Android. But the phone itself was troublesome, often getting stuck in a reboot loop. it didn't last long.

@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht Жыл бұрын

And getting hot as hell when the apps demanded more processing power ( Pokemon go for instance) But I still miss my Priv and especially android with physical keys.

@ArgoDave Жыл бұрын

@@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht she still wishes she had that physical keyboard too. But her new Fold 4 is keeping her happy.

@JSM. 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry 2010 known for "multibillion dollar company" Blackberry 2021known for "Meme stock"

@WeedShaggy 3 жыл бұрын

s T O n K s

@CannabisTechLife 3 жыл бұрын

I set my Samsung's Bixby button to open the Fidelity app so I can lose money faster.

@ephemer1125 3 жыл бұрын

@@CannabisTechLife I was thinking of doing a Samtime reference. And you beat me while high. Well played.

@sayloltothetroll6806 3 жыл бұрын

Diamond hands, folks. Last man holding Blackberry wins.

@dappergander 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry's strength was the security of it's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. That's the main reason so many companies and governments stayed with them so long.

@russellhltn1396 3 жыл бұрын

True, but the requirement of the server was likely one of their downfalls.

@WarpedSpeed 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry was good when it was secure. The downfall was that they were secure and the DS must be have access to all of your data and devices.

@asap1142 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I've heard that Black Berry was tight on security. Google is a snitch machine for the local robbers lol 😆 you throw yourself under the bus with any Judge with Google snitch machine transcripts 😭💀💀💀💀

@KRAFTWERK2K6 3 жыл бұрын

@@russellhltn1396 Not the requirement but the fact they had released the freaking masterkey for their encryption which basically rendered their damn infrastructure worthless.

@jonathanblackberry9512 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry is still doing well. It has partnered with Amazon and baifu and Nvidia to provide security and they are impeded in 195 million vehicles on the road.

@brianh3985 Жыл бұрын

I owned a blackberry curve from 2011 to 2013. The first thing that bothered me was the switch to a trackpad that wasn’t always responsive the way the older trackball had been. Then, after I purchased an iPod touch, it became rapidly clear that blackberry’s OS was rapidly falling behind. In 2013, I switched to an iPhone 5S and have had iPhones ever since. I still miss the full keyboard (I could type so quickly and accurately), but there was just so much that fell behind and never recovered.

@KaijinD Жыл бұрын

I had a BB when I started working as a professional. It was a status symbol. I remember being impressed by the senior people who had work-provided BBs. I shifted when I learned that BB would never have an app store on par with its competitors. They couldn't make the leap from professional to dual use.

@xClunky 3 жыл бұрын

I remember my dad telling me that his colleague could connect to his printer wirelessly and print stuff from his BlackBerry and we were both super impressed at the time.

@sayloltothetroll6806 3 жыл бұрын

What giant lolcows.

@LiteralCrimeRave 3 жыл бұрын

And today I use my phone to control my computer remotley to mess with my brothers.

@ale347baker 2 жыл бұрын

@@LiteralCrimeRave I didn't know you could do that. How do you connect to the computer?

@deadbeatSad 3 жыл бұрын

"these people must've been conditioned to panick Everytime they heard the phone ring" Oh buddy I got news for u! I can do that without a blackberry

@y2kvaporwave 3 жыл бұрын

Funny!

@derrickdamewood2596 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@catdogmousecheese 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, we have been trying to contact you to inform you the extended warranty on your car is about to expire. To extend your car's extended warranty, press three to talk to a representative. I've received this exact recorded message everyday for the last year and if you talk to representative and tell them to stop calling it's useless because English is a third language to these people and they're obviously just reading from a script!

@Xwansier 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@Aleks24711 3 жыл бұрын

the absolute state of gen z

@mndlessdrwer Жыл бұрын

Also, I'm still annoyed that RIM failed to provide the Blackberry Priv with both the hardware features and software compatibility that it needed to be properly successful. It was an amazing premise because they managed to fit a portrait qwerty keyboard into a sliding mechanism that wasn't bulky. If I remember correctly, though, it didn't use the standard Google Play Store and it also had some problems with hardware quality control. It's such a shame, because that is precisely the configuration of device that I am most interested in.

@Just_Mike_A Жыл бұрын

Yep - There was a way to "side-load" some android apps, but not all and not by direct download. I did that with my Playbook until it got to the point where the apps that would actually work were just not worth having.

@Ferg13 Жыл бұрын

My one cousin had her Blackberry from whe. It first came out until a couple years ago. It had been dropped. Beer. Pop. Water. Everything spilled on it. Tue camera stopped working. The trackball stopped working. But sue kept using it. Sue finally bought a new cell. I told her to get a hold of blackberry and send them the pic of the cell. And tell them yer story of the cell. Tuey Probly would want to have that and maybe send her a brand new one. She had her blackberry for yrs. Even when ppl told her to upgrade. She wouldn’t. She doesn’t like todays cells because of touch screens. She likes the buttons. But she’s now used to tue new cell. I think she just didn’t like change. Must run in the family cause in the same way lol. Love yer channel. Learning a lot why a lot of these places or companies closed down.

@YTmadeMeChangeMySensibleName 3 жыл бұрын

I remember having a blackberry in high school. This was around 2010 or so. I DEFINITELY wasn’t doing business shit, but a fuckton of texting and networking.

@PsAMermaid 3 жыл бұрын

This was me too!! I text so much!

@donnovandalusong266 3 жыл бұрын

Plus its almost as durable as Nokia.

@PsAMermaid 3 жыл бұрын

@@donnovandalusong266 Yes! I can't believe how many times I dropped it and it ran like a champ! I miss my BB! Although, my mom was so happy when I finally had to get rid of mine because she couldn't stand the clicking from the keyboard. Lol!

@donnovandalusong266 3 жыл бұрын

@@PsAMermaid F for your Blackberry 🤧

@RikoJAmado 2 жыл бұрын

Careful there. Your Privilege is showing.

@tortster131 3 жыл бұрын

im from the city that rim was founded in and i remember in elementary school everyones parents worked there and then they fired a shit ton of ppl and everyone was freaking out because their parents lost their jobs

@jordel2010 3 жыл бұрын

😐😔

@robertfrost8264 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Rochester.. the rise and fall of Kodak and Xerox. And fall again. And fall again. The entire region is based on people who lost their jobs over the last 75 years hahah

@BIGGIEDEVIL 3 жыл бұрын

I live in waterloo just down the street where there head quarters was just empty lots and buildings now

@pokehybridtrainer Жыл бұрын

I love my Key2. It's as close as I got to my vintage Sidekick2 with functionality for IMs and excellent for PDF managing PC fix tickets. Saves me packing a laptop to access files. Had it replaced in warranty once and want to keep it in active use as long as I can.

@MrPapaverSomniferum 2 жыл бұрын

I Live in the Waterloo region where research in motion was founded and I remember everybody having a BlackBerry in high school because they were so easy to get in our area

@jonfreeman9682 2 жыл бұрын

They are the true original smartphone.

@TheCantinaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry was the ultimate dad phone

@crimson5142 3 жыл бұрын

And food

@whyrwehere 3 жыл бұрын

And food

@vladipeace 3 жыл бұрын

doof dnA

@impeter245 3 жыл бұрын

And food

@fiyeri750 3 жыл бұрын

And food

@111goo 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry was THE phone at the time. Comparable to what iPhone is now.

@Rewwgh 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like that was only in North America though. In Finland I had never even heard of it before like 2013.

@RonJDuncan 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda? They were popular for the early adopters of PDA devices, but they were expensive compared to regular phones. Now, nearly every phone is a smartphone, so I wouldn't really make the comparison.

@daveclyborne4021 3 жыл бұрын

Without the top notch security and secure browser. I would like to see a BlackBerry 10 comeback.

@jasonnewton4121 3 жыл бұрын

Apple is the worst phone out there. Even Motorola is better. Android is where it's always been😊

@DroneDialogues 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t though. Most people stuck with dumb phones before switching to iPhone and Android

@josephlee320 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your insightful commentary. I was surprised that you didn’t mention Jim Balsillie’s role in BlackBerry’s demise. Around 2011, he tried Getting an new NHL franchise into Hamilton Ontario. As a result he took his eye off the ball and blackberry started putting out low quality phones which as you mentioned had to be constantly replaced.

@machupikachu1085 Жыл бұрын

Interesting addition to the story. Canadians and their hockey LOL!

@SlipspaceEntertainment 2 жыл бұрын

When I got a black berry in 2010 it was so cool and people couldn’t believe I had one but a couple years later it was outdated

@maggotsfuckedup 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry didn't embrace android quickly enough and didn't keep the specs of their phone high enough to compete

@QuintusAntonious 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this is a big point that I think he is missing in the video. Apple started the environment that would eventually kill Blackberry, but they were not the ones who landed the killing blow. Apple, by being AT&T exclusive and pushing a "hip" brand, became another fashion symbol. Blackberry for "serious" users, Apple for "hip" ones. I do not think it can be overstated how much Android emerging as a true competitor to Apple mattered here. Blackberry was the natural choice to step into that role, especially once they had Verizon in their corner, but instead they released a product that just made Apple look even better by comparison. Android came in and showed an alternative to Apple that wasn't Blackberry, and that was the end. Blackberry wasn't displaced by Apple, it was displaced by Android when it failed to adapt to the new environment that Apple helped create.

@emberson7850 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think embracing android soon enough was the issue. It was more like not embracing qnx (real os) soon enough was the real issue. It was also poor leadership and not taking apple technology more seriously. They also lack important functionality. Another important issue is the bad deals they made with verizon that lock some apps only to work with verizon like Skype. Meanwhile their competitors apple and android had Skype support in all carriers. They also had this ridiculous blackberry data plan that would block wifi, app store, and etc from working if you didn't have the plan. There was just too much issue developers had to deal with causing them to focus building for other companies instead. There was also poor ads. While it was a business phone they try to attract more users showing it as a entertainment device, but the ads shouldn't only focus on playing movies on a phone as their sale point. It was a limit and weakness as if the phone could only do that. If only qnx could come sooner, and have better developer tools and tutorials.

@reginaldeberhart8521 3 жыл бұрын

All three of ya'll make valid points, but If I remember correctly. The BlackBerry lacked apps, in which the iPhone and the android had/has. Just my opinion.

@JohnDoe_333 3 жыл бұрын

I think their iconic formfactor with a dedicated keyboard became obsolete because of capacitive touchscreens. In the late 2000s you had these awful resistive ones where you had to press really hard or write with a pen which was a lot slower than a traditional keyboard, but the resistive ones we use every day just need to touch without pressure, which in my opinion is better than a real keyboard on a smartphone.

@vigank5 3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnDoe_333 The Bold 9900 was really good, a touchscreen phone with a keyboard, I also believe it's because they didn't embrace android quickly enough, if they did I'd never switch just because of the sweet keyboards, still can't type on touchscreens, I hate them.

@MikeHarris1984 3 жыл бұрын

BB also had the back end enterprise server infrastructure they licensed. Full encrypted messaging/email, something that no smart phone could do at the time. This is why government and enterprise did not ditch BB for many years after iphone launched.

@Deezy07 3 жыл бұрын

IIRC I think the US DOD still uses BlackBerry's.

@junrosamura645 3 жыл бұрын

@@Deezy07 Really, which branch? I've worked for almost every major DOD agency and there was a huge BB purge around 2014. It's been iPhones ever since.

@russellhltn1396 3 жыл бұрын

As far as consumers, I think that was part of their downfall. A BB device required a server to support it. If an executive wanted their email on a BB, then the IT department either had to set up a BB server or contract out for that service. A smart phone isn't tied to any particular email service or server. In that respect, BB was more of a walled garden than Apple.

@bindingcurve 3 жыл бұрын

@@russellhltn1396 it was the servers that killed RIM.

@ExNihiloComesNothing 2 жыл бұрын

BES sucked to support.

@Wrightgrlgnebd 2 жыл бұрын

Loved my BlackBerry Curve in high school (2010 and 2011). They were too focused on business and didn’t change quickly enough. Great video!

@getsouped 2 жыл бұрын

man... i remember as a kid, i wanted a blackberry so bad 😔 i used to read those preteen magazines and id see all the disney/nick stars with their blackberries, and i even wanted one instead of an iphone up until late middle school. i just wanted the little keyboard, man.

@maxivy 3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Fallon went from 0 to Annoying in 0.7 seconds in his cameo

@JavedMohamed 3 жыл бұрын

his fake laugh absolutely makes me mad

@filipmazic5486 3 жыл бұрын

I just clicked the video and haven't seen him appear yet but I agree

@christophersalinas2722 3 жыл бұрын

@@filipmazic5486 same

@OuroborosChoked 3 жыл бұрын

Never owned a BlackBerry, but I owned an early Android phone with the sliding keyboard... I miss physical keyboards.

@JL-sm6cg 3 жыл бұрын

Was it the HTC? I had that one myself. A full Android phone with the flip out keyboard. I loved it.

@OuroborosChoked 3 жыл бұрын

@@JL-sm6cg Samsung Galaxy 1S

@jeffdavis6657 3 жыл бұрын

The Blackberry Key2 is an Android Phone with a physical keyboard.

@scrubscrub4492 3 жыл бұрын

FxTec Pro 1 X, Unihertz Titan, Planet Computers Astro Slide, eventually the actual new BlackBerry...you've got plenty of options available today, and they all have Android compatibility so you're missing out on nothing by choosing it over a bland full touchscreen phone.

@RohonNag 3 жыл бұрын

I had a Sony Ericson phone with a sliding keyboard, I loved that phone so much.

@RellyOhBoy 10 ай бұрын

I used to do Corporate IT support back in the early to mid 2000's and I've had serval over the years. A Blackberry was the device issued to the IT dept. staff and VP's. It was the first true functional business oriented smart device. They had a decent physical qwerty keyboard, a useful set of productivity apps the OS was inherently secure, it had virtually seamless corporate email integration with Domino or Exchange through BES. And of course later came BBM. The Pearl, Curve and Bold were the best models. They tried to follow the trend and go full touch screen with the Storm which was a flop. Then they tried to return to their roots with with the KeyOne (Android OS combined with an old school Blackberry) Which was decent but by then it was too late for them. I still have most of my old BBs in a drawer with the rest of my vintage cell phone collection. They did however excel at the infotainment interface in my Ford. with the Sync 3 which is way better than Microsoft's glitchy ass Myford touch Sync 2.

@Itachisclone420 Жыл бұрын

I owned a black barry back in 2011 when they were still booming. When I saw the title of the video the nostalgia came flooding back to me about when I owned a blackberry and I have to tell you I prefer the design of the blackberry over any of the other smartphones. Now this is just my own bias point of view when I say I’m tired of the modern smartphones today with Apple and Samsung being the flagships. I just feel as if there is no verity now a days compared to back then. Nowadays you’re really only left with 2 options and it sucks because I remember a time when the smartphone market was more diverse.

@bigtombowski Жыл бұрын

My buddy Barry is black too. I don't _own_ him though.

@WalkingRoscoe Жыл бұрын

@@bigtombowski 😂

@skyisthelimit5078 9 ай бұрын

Nah, those plastic keyboard was a deal breaker, especially nowadays when people prefer bigger phone screens. There is a reason phones with physical keyboards became obsolete.

@PrecludeLP 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry was fantastic, what a shame. They absolutely were the thing to have.

@2423yay 3 жыл бұрын

Sike

@shawnnaidoo5522 2 жыл бұрын

@@2423yay bruh you are so childish .. I love it 🤣

@brodinaxsen167 2 жыл бұрын

I would love a brand new Blackberry with a QWERTY, high def screen, 4gb or greater ram and a fast processor. But, I want it to be built like the original curve models! They never felt cheap and survived multiple drops.

@ccdogpark 2 жыл бұрын

BlackBerry wont work after today.

@stephankwapis 3 жыл бұрын

I worked at AT&T when the iPhone 3g, 3GS, and 4 all came out and the company directive at the time was “push the iPhone no matter what”. If someone came in and specifically said they wanted a BlackBerry it was my job to do everything in my power to try and switch them to an iPhone or be reemed by management. I’d have to imagine that had something to do with the fast decline as well.

@MBarberfan4life 2 жыл бұрын

That AT&T and iPhone relationship looked more like a cartel.

@brianpayne5773 2 жыл бұрын

Wow.

@MathieuLLF 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, Apple had draconian contracts with carriers which forced this type of behaviours.

@jenniferbarber1326 Жыл бұрын

Spot on. At&t used to be a huge blackberry provider & seller. When the iPhone came out, I feel they were pushed by Apple to push people from BlackBerry to I phone. The problem is the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard & BlackBerry people want a keyboard. Ultimately the got at&t to kick BlackBerry off their network, which happened last year and led me to switch to mobile so I could keep my blackberry with a keyboard.

@jenniferbarber1326 Жыл бұрын

@Shawn that's your opinion. IPhones don't have a keyboard & tbh I hate the iOS operating system. Blackberries run android OS.

@KingShade1 6 ай бұрын

I grew up in the Waterloo area and man... I remember so many buildings were "RIM" Buildings around here back in the day! Pretty much everyone I knew had Blackberries and was on BBM. It used to be a status symbol having over 100 contacts on your BBM list! I do remember those annoying "PING!" messages my boss used to send me through BBM whenever I was ignoring him though... But I fully agree with you, the Blackberry company failed to adapt and keep up with the emerging technologies. I remember one of their last bids for notoriety was supporting Flash content in their Blackberry Playbook (back in like 2011 or something), you know, back when Flash was still somewhat popular, but also on it's way out in favour of HTML5...

@downwithtrudeau Жыл бұрын

Blackberry made great phones up until the storm. Those trackballs were neat.

@reaganfranks4579 3 жыл бұрын

I remember both of my parents having black berries in like 2010 I thought they were so cool. It was my aspiration to have a blackberry when I grew up

@ccdogpark 2 жыл бұрын

Tell them their Blackberry wont work after today. 2022-01-04

@MikeFaley 3 жыл бұрын

When I was in advertising, BlackBerry was my client. This was 2013. I remember very clearly being told in a meeting by their c-suite that they are not at all concerned about the iPhone and their business in future proof, and we should stay focused on their newest initiative... their new "creative director" Alicia Keys. The iPhone didn't kill the BB - their management did.

@magmajctaz1405 3 жыл бұрын

Same for Motorola. When Chris Galvin took over for his father, he lacked any vision, and Motorola tanked. One could blame the dot com bubble bursting, but that doesn't explain why Qualcomm and Cisco (amongst others) are still around.

@bobhaberkost2941 3 жыл бұрын

I would agree with that, but also add that when Apple released iPhone, Lazaridis acquired one and dissected it. As I heard it, after evaluating its use of the network (BlackBerrys were also famous for being very frugal with what at the time were significant limits on cellular network bandwidth, as all traffic, including browser/web traffic, was compressed…which gave us the BlackBerry browser with all its warts) he declared that it would crush the network…and it did. AT&T spent multiple millions upgrading their network, especially in the larger markets, where the overwhelming presence of the iPhone would result in delays, dropped calls and other issues, on not just with iPhones but all the other devices. iPhone today is still a bandwidth hog.

@bobhaberkost2941 3 жыл бұрын

Also Alicia Keys was caught messaging on an iPhone, so that wasn’t a good look, either.

@LuvzToLol21 2 жыл бұрын

I went to high school in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Most folks thought of Waterloo, ON as just a college town, about an hour's drive south of Toronto and home of the prestigious University of Waterloo. The fact that RIM was headquartered there felt like a point of national pride. Here was a grassroots tech company that made it big and put Canada on the world tech market, standing toe to toe against giants like Samsung, Motorola and Apple. They were hometown heroes, and it felt for a time like Waterloo could become Canada's own version of Silicon Valley. And yeah, I had a Blackberry of my own back in high school. It was *the* phone for popular kids to have, and all my friends had one. I begged my parents to get me a Blackberry, any Blackberry, and eventually they gave in and bought me a used Blackberry Curve. One of the coolest phones I ever had tbh. But the cracks started to show when Apple and Android phones started getting better and better with each generation, while Blackberry was still doing the same old thing as always with dwindling app support.

@jonfreeman9682 2 жыл бұрын

Haha ha truly a legendary phone. I used it at work back in the 2000s and all the cool kids had it.

@jalepeno89 Жыл бұрын

*west (or NW) of Toronto.

@pauloakwood9208 Жыл бұрын

I owned a BB for business purposes, and in a sense, I still do. Nowadays my BB is just an app on a regular cell phone, but I use it for business emails on the go. The main reason is that most regular email apps out there are not sufficiently secure. I have never heard of a BB email being hacked, and I certainly have never received robo calls or robo emails on my BB. The old hardware was innovative for its time, but it could not compete with all the new apps on an iPhone.

@LBYINCHINA 3 жыл бұрын

If RIM joined the Andriod ecosystem in the 2010s things would be different.

@ceounicom 3 жыл бұрын

from what i recall there wasn't much of one to join initially. one problem was that Bbery devices used their own proprietary (DataTAC?) network technology to do the encrypted email/text and it made any kind of shift to normal (GSM?) cell networks very expensive b/c they'd be abandoning their legacy backbone. basically, they had a short window in which to decide how drastically they needed to change, and they waffled until it was too late.

@jjeaze 3 жыл бұрын

@Tong Zou yes they waited way too long to integrate to the newer smartphone functionality. Its a shame because i owned the Bold and the world edition. Loved those phones.

@daveclyborne4021 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah - hackable crap like android. I'll take BlackBerry any day and 10 times on Sunday.

@KBoon 3 жыл бұрын

@Tong Zou It didn't help things that BB's version of Android was a resource hog, and that the bootloaders were locked, and that they barely got any OS upgrades

@kw9849 3 жыл бұрын

@Tong Zou I'd go one step further and say BB10 was a great OS. It was secure, performed well and had an outstanding gesture system. The problem was a lack of dedicated software support and half-baked Android app compatibility. I loved my Passport and would still be using it had BlackBerry released an Android version.

@TheMeatloaf14 3 жыл бұрын

I had a blackberry , I loved how a little light on it would blink twice when I had a text coming in , one of the few things I remember about it .

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the iPhone light blinking just isn't the same since it's in the back.. Pfft

@italiana626sc 3 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten about that. A very nice feature.

@dorianslover1199 3 жыл бұрын

I actually really miss the light that blinked on my Blackberry Pearl.

@majaquinn 2 жыл бұрын

This brings back memories of my Polish mum throwing blackberry phones at me

@mr.manpants9460 Жыл бұрын

I'd argue that the keyboard played a very minor role. It ALL came down to the apps and the contracts with the developers of the app, which is why Samsung is in the game.

@rohiniguiland4873 Жыл бұрын

I always thought that. They were slow to allow all the apps.

@ReflectorExe Жыл бұрын

Youre absolutely right , this is exactly why i went for a samsung. I LOVED the keyboard, but as a teen i wanted to play these cool games and apps wich they dindt have .

@rafisyed8624 Жыл бұрын

I worked for Blackberry in the early 2000’s as did half my friends at UWaterloo. They were focused on the business market, selling on security and efficiency (look up packet switching). They thought a camo faceplate for the military was cutting edge. RIM was an engineering shop first and foremeost. At first they thought the iPhone would never be a hit, but the touch screen and the emphasis on apps was revolutionary. Remember the slogan “there’s an app for that!” It meant whole new type of games, like Angry Birds and paved the way for AR with Pokémon. Meanwhile BB had some diehard keyboard lovers (who had Blackberry thumbs from typing so fast) and IT managers who loved BB servers that kept them going a little longer. They tried to pivot and make their own OS, then tried porting Android into a BB phone but it was too late. Blackberry Messenger outlasted their phones as an app until we convinced our friends to switch to FB Messenger, then Signal. The execs under estimated the iPhone and it was game over by the time they realized how popular it was.

@skyisthelimit5078 9 ай бұрын

Lol. It did. Theres a reason most, if not all smart phones dont have those clunky keyboards anymore. Imagine watching youtube on your blackberry phones. How cute the videos would look on those tiny ass screen LMAO

@tristan6509 3 жыл бұрын

The BlackBerry was so ubiquitous where I live that everyone still had one as a second phone even though they upgraded to an iphone or Android because everyone still used BBM

@mattberg6816 3 жыл бұрын

Washington DC?

@yusufansari790 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Im from mumbai.

@ssjstace5153 3 жыл бұрын

@tomojagooriginal622 3 жыл бұрын

iMessage replaced it

@shifty1927 3 жыл бұрын

We was still trappin on BBM

@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 3 жыл бұрын

As a 12 year old kid I remember wanting a Blackberry every time I walked into a Fry’s or Best Buy

@vladipeace 3 жыл бұрын

if you had one of them, you were the most hip in all of the land. A.K.A the school’s yard.

@MustyMouse 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Fry's

@eyesdontsee 3 жыл бұрын

Goddamn I miss Fry's

@retrogaminggenesis6102 3 жыл бұрын

For me it was a few years before that as iPhone fever was blasting off in 2012 with the iPhone 4S but I remember being 10 and oooing and awing over the one my Dad got from work.

@DexieTheSheep 3 жыл бұрын

what's fry's?

@jasonw7053 2 жыл бұрын

I had a couple blackberrys from around 2008 to 2011 and they were amazing phones especially the keyboard. I was around 21 or so and it wasn't for business at all and a few of my friends had them too. I ended up changing it for a samsung galaxy s2 it was just better overall with web browsing playing music etc. But I always did miss the physical keyboard. If only blackberry switched to android early on then I think more people would have kept a blackberry or at least tried it out.

@llamaisms Жыл бұрын

I owned a blackberry in 1st grade as it was my moms old work phone that she gave me to exclusively play Brick Breaker.

@TANGYHATCHY 3 жыл бұрын

I want a modern phone with a physical hidden keyboard SOOOO badly. There’s just something about clicking those keys, and I’m 20 y/o

@mattberg6816 3 жыл бұрын

I’m with you on that

@KBoon 3 жыл бұрын

Your choices are basically the BlackBerry KEY2 / LE, the F(x) Tec Pro 1, and the Unihertz Titan and Titan Pocket...

@mattberg6816 3 жыл бұрын

@@KBoon I just price checked a few of those 🤯

@dant.3505 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattberg6816 around about how much?

@dant.3505 3 жыл бұрын

Now that I googled it I see. Oh dear the price is not low. But when weighed for what it offers...

@uncool13 3 жыл бұрын

The lesson I have learned from Company Man on so many many of these videos is, once the family sells to a corp. it's going to go bad.

@shanecoolbaugh 11 ай бұрын

I got a BlackBerry the summer before my junior year of high school in 2010. I kept it for a year and, interestingly, switched to the iPhone the following summer as the front-facing camera and other features became a must-have. It was interesting to watch this and see that peak in 2011 because it did feel like everyone had one, and then the following school year, it was all about the iPhone, and we were like, BlackBerry, who? I didn't realize the iPhone was AT&T exclusive at first, which makes sense why I didn't have one right away since my family was a Verizon customer.

@princessmononeko7507 2 жыл бұрын

“These people must have been conditioned to panic every time the phone rang” Yeah I totally wouldn’t know what it’s like to panic at my phone ringing… those poor people 😅

@eaabrego 3 жыл бұрын

There is a great book, called "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry" that i would recommend to get a really great look how the company squandered the lead they had at the time.

@eric.larson 3 жыл бұрын

That book is a must read to have a more complete understanding of what went wrong. "RIM didn't see the iPhone as a threat" is partially true, but an oversimplification. The cellular companies (the non-AT&T ones) were the ones that told RIM execs not to be concerned with the iPhone and to not put any development into a competing multimedia capable device.

@wcg66 3 жыл бұрын

I need to check that out. From an outside view (I’m Canadian and BB was a household name) it was all hubris. If you remember when the iPhone came out, Balsilie was more concerned with getting an NHL franchise. My belief, wrongly or rightly, was that RIM was too arrogant and never considered a full screen touch interface to be competitive.

@ivanbb1070 3 жыл бұрын

@@wcg66 here's a short video of the author discussing the rise and fall of BlackBerry. BlackBerry Jacquie McNish reveals inside story (Full Interview) m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/grSKa7tizZjMeZc.html

@eaglescout1984 3 жыл бұрын

Apple: We've put our experience of years of making use friendly computers and music players into this device. Google: We've leaned into our vast pool of software engineers and partnered with proven hardware manufacturers to come up with multiple devices. Blackberry: What if you had to click really hard on the screen?

@jimkear6749 3 жыл бұрын

Blackberry, "We have the best email, we don't have to be best at anything else".

@jasonnewton4121 3 жыл бұрын

Samsung Galaxy is a WAY better product than anything Apple can produce!!

@ginak5802 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like the only people who use Apple are rich f*cks, hipsters or my 57 year old mom who likes her phones to be simple because she'll instantaneously combust if she sees a single windows command prompt 🤣

@elias_xp95 3 жыл бұрын

Apple and user friendly don't belong in the same sentence.

@elias_xp95 3 жыл бұрын

@eeeeee Something that requires extra steps is not intuitive, it’s nuisance.

@USER-jo7yz 2 жыл бұрын

As an old BB 9000, Q10, and Keyone user, I think the features of the new 5G Blackberry must be the following: Key2-type keyboard, robust frame, long-life quick charging battery, Blackberry Secure Operating System (with compatibility to Google Play apps), clever and ergonomic facilities, Contacts app with more manipulation functions and MS Outlook compatibility (like that of BB Bold 9000). The camera must have a stabilizer, support slow motion, but no need for tons of MB picture resolutions (4K is enough). No need for fancy curved displays. Must have an easy memory insertion slot, stereo speakers (like those fantastic mini ones of BB 9000) as well as programmable notification profiles (like those of BB 9000). The back skin must be soft and leather-like. Finally, the price must not exceed the cheapest iPhone one!!!! This will boost the BB sales, hoping for a victorious come-back.

@jenniferbarber1326 Жыл бұрын

As a long time blackberry addict who has had them for decades & still uses one. Their downfall was not allowing all the apps people wanted on their OS. They could've kept their market share by either switching to android earlier or allowing app developers to develop apps for their BlackBerry operating system so people could use the apps they wanted & keep the phone they wanted. I'm holding onto my key2 because I love a physical keyboard & there are no other options. Hopefully they'll license to another company soon so we can get another new phone.

@kmsnow6292 3 жыл бұрын

One small story I may add. On the day that Steve Jobs released the podcasts of the iPhone, a General Manager of RIM had to pull his car to the side road and listened to it entirely. When he got to his office later that day he called an urgent meeting with all of his direct managers and issued a statement that summed it up “We are done”.

@ressljs 3 жыл бұрын

I think another thing that may have been worth mentioning, even though it didn't turn things around for them, was the Z10 phone BlackBerry released in 2013. It was all touchscreen with a brand new operating system. I read the reviews which were really positive and was planning to buy one as soon as the contract on my old phone was up. But once that happened, it was clear that good or not, NO ONE was buying the new BlackBerries and I'd be buying into a dying ecosystem. Kind of like the Windows phone, it was just too late. It's too bad, because the Z10 looked like a cool phone.

@jasonmgomez 3 жыл бұрын

@@ressljs it was, and the z30 was even better simply because of the size. The PRIV was the best of all worlds, full slideout keyboard that would allow you to scroll the full touchscreen simply by rubbing your fingers on the keys without pushing them. Android ecosystem with a full functioning app store. Battery that lasted for DAYS and my absolute favorite feature EVER, the BlackBerry HUB.

@xx-jp2yt 3 жыл бұрын

As a Canadian this hurts... And it honestly seems like people ditched them overnight

@riverdaletales8457 3 жыл бұрын

iPhone kicked their ass. They should of started just copying the iPhone .

@jeffs4020 3 жыл бұрын

as someone who LIVES in kitchener this really hurts

@aboodarar9458 3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffs4020 it was interesting watching their decline live while attending UWaterloo and seeing their old office buildings near campus being absorbed by the university

@jhonson530i 3 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is as an Indonesian I remember these things selling way past the point where people start to abandon them globally, they even later released a phone named "Jakarta" like the capital. The sad thing though, I have used 3 Blackberry curves, the Curve 3G got lost before it was even a year old, the Apollo didn't last long enough, then I used up the final breath of my brother's old Curve. To put it, they just didn't last all that long, I finally ditched them and switched to the Nexus 5 mid 2014, where that phone died after 4 years as well *sigh*. Luckily my current Note 9 is doing way better even after 3 years.

@icrywhenisleep2130 3 жыл бұрын

@@jhonson530i ur living in 2014?????

@markrothenberg9867 11 ай бұрын

I worked at an electric utility in the IT department. I used a Palm Pilot, every Blackberry and every iPhone, and several other phones including Microsoft, Samsung and LG. I knew as soon as BlackBerry went to a software keyboard on the Storm they were done. Many of us hated the first iPhone because we thought the Blackberry with a physical keyboard was the best.

@Jazzy_Monae 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when my mom had a black berry, I was the definition of "you got games on your phone🥴" 🤣🤣

@BiffaSlick 3 жыл бұрын

one of my friends was loyal till the end, he had whatever blackberry came out in 2018, it was actually kind of nice looking

@Boriswmusic 3 жыл бұрын

The BlackBerry Keyone was released in 2017 and had all the same features as a iPhone 10 with the Iconic physical keyboard but Android based software. I have owned mine for 4 years and is a excellent device.

@EseJandro 3 жыл бұрын

that was me too, i had the PRIV, the KeyOne and the Key2

@hoseiimaging6215 3 жыл бұрын

I stopped at the passport

@alanguile8945 3 жыл бұрын

I loved keyboards on phones. Went to buy a Blackberry and was warned "There won't be many Apps for it , better get an iPhone"!

@Mtlbro6 3 жыл бұрын

There's an app for that.

@sketchur 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mtlbro6 Not for a physical keyboard, there isn't. 😔

@DarthNoshitam 3 жыл бұрын

@@sketchur there's Bluetooth for that!

@y2kvaporwave 3 жыл бұрын

Get the Unihertz Titan

@sexagesimalian 3 жыл бұрын

Everything is in the apps. Phone is just an app. "Smart phones" are just mini-computers running apps. Third-party apps is the only way to scale the platform and Apple definitely had the edge in this area. Once Android came around, Blackberry (and Nokia) had no hope. Only Microsoft could make a go of it, but there simply isn't room the market for three app platforms that developers have to support.

@SuperRKO92 Жыл бұрын

My dad had one of the blackberry pagers when I was a kid. We thought it was next level. Now I’m watching a video about their downfall on my iPhone

@joeystoney3678 Жыл бұрын

Ahh, I miss my BlackBerry. It was my first smartphone. I"ll never forget the switch from a LG flip phone to to a BlackBerry Pearl 8120. I lost my flip phone while going for work orientation. A Telus salesman at a dealership looked at my account and I was with Telus so long as a customer he recommended I call back and ask to speak to loyalty department and basically demand they credit my account enough to pay off what was still owing on my contract and get any new smartphone. At the time I recently moved in with my dad and my smother(step-mother) and like a month or so before I lost my phone I remember the ads for the LG Shine on TV "It's a camera, with a phone. Full HTML web browser" and I mentioned to her I wanted that phone because it looked so cool and wasn't plastic but stainless steel. Well she stole my idea to get that phone and she was showing it off when she got it and was saying how fancy it was and saying I was right about the phone. Well she was also crazy strict with the family PC and she enforced no using the computer/internet after like 9PM. Well I remembered the Moto Q ads and thought it would be perfect because it was like a pocket PC and I could browse the full internet and not the early days of mobile internet(who remembers AirG Chat?) and Telus gave me a generous $600 credit and I asked the rep about the moto q and he said honestly, they were sending a lot of them out for repair and said the best selling device was the BlackBerry. It had a better OS and more people used a BlackBerry than any other smartphone on the market. And I was a BlackBerry user until they announced they were ditching their own OS for Android. I was even the BB Ambassador when I worked at Rogers Wireless. I remember after the pearl, getting the Storm, Curve, Torch, Bold, Z10, Q10 and finally the Z30. In my small town I was the envy of all my friends who still had flip and bar phones. Even the Razr kids wanted to hold my phone, and my drunk cousin even said "You have a BlackBerry? Only the rich have those" Lol. Ahh... those days..

@otakubullfrog1665 3 жыл бұрын

Most of the people I knew who clung to their BlackBerries even after the brand declined claimed that it was still better for email. I think the reason they had trouble expanding beyond the business environment is because most people don't send a lot of emails outside of work anymore due to the rise of social media.

@grandetaco4416 3 жыл бұрын

We use a lot of email in my company, iPhone is really good for it. The company does not want us on social media.

@astoriacub 3 жыл бұрын

and apps. Blackberry couldn't compete with the itunes store or google play. Because RIMs hardware and software was so antiquated compared to iOS and Android that developers wouldn't build blackberry apps and RIM did nothing to that alleviate that situation. The RIM CEOs bragged about never touching an iPhone when the iPhone/Android craze started in 2009/2010. The original Droid and iPhone 3GS, and a year or so later the Samsung Galaxy, was the nail in the coffin. That arrogance is what ultimately lead to RIMS demise.

@aliNET86 3 жыл бұрын

I remember back then the many ads in newspapers for hiring job include giving free blackberry phone. How nostalgic. 😅

@89five3five 2 жыл бұрын

What really started killing blackberry was iPhone users bringing their personal device to work and asking their IT department to get work email access on it. IT department heads started to notice that a “bring your own device” policy meant they could spend less of their budgets buying BBs.

@realcybersoapy 2 жыл бұрын

Company man: The Rise and Fall

@jamess.9743 3 жыл бұрын

apps killed the BB. once that became a thing, it was all over.

@kamX-rz4uy 3 жыл бұрын

Also companies no longer supplying phones to their employees but instead relying BYOD. At first I didn't like the idea myself but now I'd never want to go back to having two phones to carry around.

@noahlankford1 3 жыл бұрын

Next video after BB stock pops off: "blackberry the rise fall...and rise again"

@awesomebeast7509 3 жыл бұрын

Diamond Hands Baby!!!

@mistycredo4861 3 жыл бұрын

Diamond Hands Baby!!

@Johnny.Picklez 3 жыл бұрын

DIAMOND HANDS

@theelightbearer4254 3 жыл бұрын

BB TO THE MOOOOOON!!!

@HappyAccidentVideos 3 жыл бұрын

BB is a distraction from AMC/GME.

@Pandora8_ Жыл бұрын

I miss the blackberry and BBM. Have so many good memories during school and the funniest chats and voice notes I shared with friends. I also miss pinging people's phones to get their attention, that was literally the best feature. Had my own phone pinged so many times once that it literally heated up and shut down lol

@JK-gm6kk 3 жыл бұрын

This couldn't have come at a better time. Taking my beloved doggo to get fixed later, and I desperately needed something else to focus on. Thanks Company Man, for giving us consistent, solid content!

@catcat609 3 жыл бұрын

This is the video noone asked for, but needed the most.

@bobross3880 3 жыл бұрын

[Generic comment saying how you’re wrong]

@noway9426 2 жыл бұрын

Yours is the comment no one asked for, and didn’t need at all.

@harleydegraw2999 9 ай бұрын

I had Blackberry devices from the 957 (this video doesn't mention that the 850 and 857 were replaced by the 950 and 957 models, which operated on the 900Mhz network vs the 800Mhz) up through the Storm from years 2001-ish through 2010. These were for business, but the key that the video left out was the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server), which tied into an organization's MS-Exchange or Lotus Notes email system. That's why they were mainly used for business - the original models required connectivity to a BES and a corporate email system. Later, as the devices became more mainstream, they were able to do POP3 or IMAP with any email account, but without all of the security that came with an encrypted connection to a BES.

@aleccino 2 жыл бұрын

God I loved my Blackberry Curve 8520. The keys and trackpad were so satisfying.

@DylanLey 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when physical keyboards started to go away from cellphones. That was also the time when BlackBerry became less and less relevant. Some of the phones they continue to license today surprisingly still have that signature physical keyboard!

@russellhltn1396 3 жыл бұрын

I miss the slide-out keyboard on my Droid 1.

@AntoinetteChanel 3 жыл бұрын

I'm backing you up in the comments because I agree. In fact, I was carrying a Blackberry 10 years ago. I didn't get an iPhone 4s until late 2012 😅

@rudyando 3 жыл бұрын

I got my iPhone 4s mid year. I had been satisfied with simple Nokia phones till then. Never wanted a smart phone. Still don't.

@jaredballoonboy7944 3 жыл бұрын

@@rudyando You are not normal.

@bondservant4jesus 3 жыл бұрын

I never had one. I think my first cell phone was a Nokia. Now I have iPhone.

@rudyando 3 жыл бұрын

@@jaredballoonboy7944 😄 Probably not.

@ryuuraga1619 Жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, one of my friends, a son of a businessman, gifted me and our group a version of Blackberry back in 2011 but I forgot where I kept it.

@mikeoxlong7607 Жыл бұрын

I really liked their playbooks, smooth gameplays, mic and music working while using the camera, large storage ( at their time), and compact design. The cons are the bb store and outdated apps like.

@RHNGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, I remember BalckBerry phones were huge from like 2009-2012 then I swear 2013 came along and I didn't see a single blackberry since lmao

@gangstamack8397 3 жыл бұрын

IPhone popularity killed them real quick lol

@grandetaco4416 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the end for black berry when I saw the iphone. I couldn't figure out why anyone would still want a black berry when you had a device like an iphone that was so flexible. I think the iPhones biggest selling point was its compatibility with computers as well as apps.

@vinny_chace 3 жыл бұрын

iphone 3gs

@tylongkicks8821 3 жыл бұрын

2010 with the IPhone 4, HTC Androids and Samsung Galaxy phones was the beginning of the end.

@jasonmgomez 3 жыл бұрын

wrong gangsta macc. Not being offered by U.S. carriers any longer and a price point around 6x as much as you could get an iphone through the same carrier is what killed them.

@RSGCProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes. The "cool" kid phone in school.

@topanlazuardi9251 3 жыл бұрын

isnt also mean The "Quiet" Kid Target phone user, too?

@aayonce4 2 жыл бұрын

Lol yess forreal these and sidekicks

@LuNa_097 2 жыл бұрын

I took a Wii/GameCube portable that I made myself before the pandemic

@irishbattletoster9265 2 жыл бұрын

@@topanlazuardi9251 ?

@corvigae 2 жыл бұрын

God, I remember my best friend in high school being the first of us to have a smart phone with their Blackberry Storm. The "sure touch" thing was so annoying, it felt like you had to damn near squeeze the phone to click on anything.

@lyricswithrm 2 жыл бұрын

I remember begging my mum to buy a blackberry when she needed a new phone.

@NLD09 3 жыл бұрын

It was hugely popular at one time and earned the nickname of "CrackBerry"

@AudioGAWD 3 жыл бұрын

I always assumed it sas becasue people with cracked screens

@kwadwothestan 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great video! iPhone definitely played a big part in their downfall, as well as the rise of Android.

@reginaldeberhart8521 3 жыл бұрын

The combination that, and that both carried apps.

@ceanpatricktemporas6685 3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget the emerging internet-supported apps

@BattleBrickState 2 жыл бұрын

Got my 1st Blackberry back in 2012. It was a BB 9000 model. I was using it just for general purposes like web browsing, messaging, watching video, listen to music. Then i moved to iPhone 4 in 2013. Even today, i still love to have either a Blackberry 9000 bold or a Nokia E72 just for communication and for the overall nostalgic

@spoider202 Жыл бұрын

i had a blackberry in high school. i loved it. didnt have my first iphone for a few years after, but i do miss physical qwerty keyboards on phones.

@thebestcentaur 3 жыл бұрын

I used to actually want one of these when I was in middle/high school. Now I'm cool with a Light Phone 2 and am stunned BlackBerry seemingly fell off the map so fast and far

@altaccout 3 жыл бұрын

I dont like touchscreen keyboards, I keep my fingers on the keyboard when I type. The biggest reason for BB's decline wasn't the keyboard, it was the apps. The apple apps and then android apps just made their phones more usable than blackberry. By the time blackberry started allowing android apps it was too late.

@timg2727 3 жыл бұрын

And even then their implementation was really janky and used an old version of Android as the container they ran in.

@timg2727 3 жыл бұрын

@Tong Zou that's what I'm referring to. BB10 ran Android apps in a container that was based on an old version of Android. By most accounts, it didn't actually work all that well.

@GiorgosTube 3 жыл бұрын

You know blackberry had released an android smartphone with a physical keyboard right? A few years ago, I don’t know why you would want it but if you really care about the keyboard do whatever you want

@shaylah7389 3 жыл бұрын

100% agree.

@MrstealYoWifi 3 жыл бұрын

@Tong Zou are you just copying and pasting ur comment

@PopDocAhk Жыл бұрын

The razor flip will always go down as the OG status symbol

@fireflyfox93 Жыл бұрын

My dad has a blackberry for a work phone, I always thought it was so cool. That was the first 'smart' phone I had ever seen at that point.

@sproins 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet but the little circles on an actual blackberry actually have a name, they're called drupelets.

@t_better99 3 жыл бұрын

that should've been a Phineas & Ferb song

@breeze787 3 жыл бұрын

I thought they were chicklets?

@baselhs 3 жыл бұрын

Not a sad story like Nokia. For almost two decades they were the no.1 mobile phone company in the world, then it vanished within a few years 😔 Crazy

@apeoplesperson 3 жыл бұрын

nokia was even worse because they actually pivoted and made some really good smartphones with THE best cameras in the market (lumia series) but microsoft screwed them royally. it was a windows phone with no android option, no play store integration so almost no apps at all. imagine having a phone with the best cameras and no ability to use instagram.

@frag9434 3 жыл бұрын

@@apeoplesperson you are talking about Huawei ??

@arkvsi8142 3 жыл бұрын

@@apeoplesperson Instagram svcks

@thenessh2807 3 жыл бұрын

Atleast nokia is back with androids n its very premium

@baselhs 3 жыл бұрын

@SomedayIWT Correct. Back in 2007 I had Nokia N95 with a 5 MP camera, while the new iphone had a 2 MP camera.

@kiki1573 2 жыл бұрын

I had one that my ex stole. He knew I was keeping it as a collector's item for the future. Man the only reason why I did drop a rotten ham on his doorstep is because he lives in a gated community. It's HARD getting in there!!!

@jesselinville898 2 жыл бұрын

I had a black berry pearl in about 07. The bezel that held the roller ball popped off and the ball fell out and disappeared. That rendered the phone completely useless because the track ball was the only way to navigate the phone.

@jimmyispromo 2 жыл бұрын

Apple will be next. Minimal improvements and they feel they are perfect. Their limelight only can last so long.

@athenadraws7703 2 жыл бұрын

@eligreg99 2 жыл бұрын

Apple isn’t going anywhere until it loses popularity in the West. Currently the mindset is if you don’t have an apple product you are considered inferior. I’ve experienced this many times when I use to have a galaxy. I loved my galaxy s3 and s5 but eventually caved and switch to the iPhone 7 in college and now the iPhone 12 last year.

@samanthataylor1761 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. But they need someone to take them out.

@samanthataylor1761 2 жыл бұрын

@@eligreg99 we get that. The original comment’s point is that limelight doesn’t last forever. Neither will it for Apple.

@zaneofficialsc8939 2 жыл бұрын

Get a samsung s20 or s21 ultra wont regret it

@scottydude456 3 жыл бұрын

Man this makes me remember when my parents had blackberries. Those were simpler times

@Harrington2323 Жыл бұрын

I´m from Germany. The black berry was the succesor of the pager and in Europe we never used pagers so much, so everybody used handys a lot earlier then in the US. I remember that there was a time when new american movies and serials showed people using pagers and I thought that that looked really "old-school" for me. The only people who used pager-like devices were police, volunteer fire department, doctor´s and other people on call duty. I think BB´s were only used by employees of US-Companys and some "always business" people and I´ve never used on or even seen one and I had my first handy 1998.

@DudeCrazy198 2 жыл бұрын

I owned a blackberry in high school until the very end of 2016, my junior year, where the phone itself was no longer being supported. It's discontinuance led to me finally getting a smartphone while my peers had them since middle school

@jonfreeman9682 2 жыл бұрын

Wow you lasted longer than most.

@jonsvenson7056 3 жыл бұрын

I hated it when my company forced me to move to an iPhone from a Blackberry. I love the thing, and I believe it was more durable than the iPhone that I’ve replaced multiple times since that time.

@stevesid4403 3 жыл бұрын

You're not the only one. Most people I knew at that time hated the transition but were forced into it.

@hepwo91222 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, same here, especially how big tech is totally spying on us now like 1984 novel type of dystopia. I wish BB10 was still supported even with no apps just to have some privacy

@SdoubleA 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFalseShepphard Or we could instead have governments create regulations to prevent companies from spying on you. What is this bullshit that blames consumers when companies are being evil?

@foxycinnamon7307 3 жыл бұрын

@Soy Orbison My phone was spammed after I donated to a charity on Twitter, so it's not the govt I'm tripping on.

@foxycinnamon7307 3 жыл бұрын

@Soy Orbison I don't even use twitter anymore. The whole thing soured me.