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0 points908B64B1975y ago0 comments

Truth is, the company should have abandoned it's OS before they released their first touch screen device and go with Android. I remember playing with it (the Storm?). It was 2 years after the iPhone was released and it was two years behind the original iPhone.

The only moat to keep users they had was their messaging app, but Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp killed it with interop. And it's not like their userbase was as valuable as, let's say, Bloomberg chat.

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rcfox5y ago· 1 in thread

The first release of Android was only a couple months before the release of the Blackberry Storm. That obviously wasn't an option.

908B64B197OP5y ago

I'm really getting downvoted without explanations here.

The Storm should have been a warning sign that their OS was starting to heavily lag behind. By the time it arrived on the market Apple already had the App Store and the 3G on the market. Anyone from BlackBerry taking a trip to the local mall would have noticed what was wrong with the Storm and the OS in the first 30 seconds when trying a (first gen!) iPhone.

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