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What Happened to BlackBerry? Why the Smartphone That Ruled Every Boardroom Disappeared

What really ended BlackBerry had nothing to do with the iPhone and nothing to do with two founders who failed to see it coming. This video traces the actual architecture of how BlackBerry built one of the most defensible positions in the history of consumer technology, why that position held even after the iPhone launched, and the precise moment two structural assumptions collapsed simultaneously and took everything with them. If you think you already know this story, you probably know the wrong version.

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What really ended BlackBerry had nothing to do with the iPhone and nothing to do with two founders who failed to see it coming. This video traces the actual architecture of how BlackBerry built one of the most defensible positions in the history of consumer technology, why that position held even after the iPhone launched, and the precise moment two structural assumptions collapsed simultaneously and took everything with them. If you think you already know this story, you probably know the wrong version.

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