How BlackBerry Took Over the World and Then Lost It | BlackBerry

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast BlackBerry was once the undisputed king of smartphones. In the early 2000s, their devices were ubiquitous, especially among business professionals. The iconic BlackBerry design, with its full QWERTY keyboard and trackball navigation, was the epitome of high-tech style. So how did this pioneer fall from grace so swiftly when the iPhone arrived on the scene? Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Episode link: https://tilln.com/blackberry Want to Support TILLN: https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Advertise with us: https://bit.ly/3FdZirY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to Things I Learn Last Night, the comedy podcast show where we're learning
0:04.1	useless information. And so we, this week, talked about Blackberry, the, you know, the phones.
0:10.6	You might not know. You might be young. But if you're, if you're old like us, do you remember
0:14.9	the wonderful times of the 2000s when technology was just slowly crawling its way forward. And then after 2007,
0:22.8	it just so fast, so fast, mind-numbingly fast. And now we're back to the slow increments of,
0:29.9	anyway, Blackberry was was really a part of that. And then how the rise and fall of BlackBerry
0:35.9	and maybe what they could have done different to avoid this,
0:38.0	but how they just stared their destiny straight on.
0:41.7	You know exactly where we're going.
0:43.5	And we're going to go there.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:44.8	We also talked about the coolest phone ever,
0:46.5	the Motorola razor.
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:49.5	The coolest thing ever.
0:50.8	Shout out to our sponsor,
0:52.8	Motorola Razor.
0:54.4	Whatever,
0:54.9	let's get into the episode.
0:58.8	Hey, man.
0:59.7	Oh,
1:00.1	don't I hate it when you do this.
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