[nknighthb]

That speaks to how bad everybody else was. The first BlackBerry was technologically similar to contemporary PalmOS devices with a GSM module bolted on. Boring. Predictable. But they actually worked.

RIM won by showing up and not being totally incompetent. They lost by being complacent.

[nrmilstein]

Everything kind of looks bad to me now pre-iPhone – the things was seriously years ahead of its time.