>Literally did nothing wrong>saved failing company>brought Blackberry to market>needed programmers? Poached the best from Google and other companies>saved company from hostile takeoverWas this the only time the greedy CEO sociopath was completely based? The reason Blackberry failed was because the retarded engineers didn't innovate and got fucked by Apple removing the keypad.
>be tech CEO>get rekt by steve jobsMany such stories
Even the Microsoft CEO mocked Apple for removing the keyboard after they launched the first iPhone and basically said it was doomed to fail
>>220849059>The reason Blackberry failedThey were based in Ontario, Canada. They were NEVER going to be able to compete long-term.
Reminder that NeXT had already developed the General Magic before the blackberry even existed
>>220849059BBM > iMessage
>>220849125so socialism was the problem?
>>220849102it's funny because keyboards seem to be slowly coming back.
>>220849141Who cares?H&P showed off a touchscreen mini laptop in 1996 at multiple tech shows and no one gave a damn.
Why hasnt this madlad gotten a biopic yet?
>>220849165I didn't say that. The problem is that from 2005-2025, if your tech company wasn't in Silicon Valley, you couldn't compete.
glad Glenn Howerton finally got to play a dramatic role, he killed it in this movie, one of my favorites in recent years
>>220849203God look at those sweat stains lol how much coke was he on?
Reminder: Steve Jobs borrowed heavily from Palm Treo OS and loved the idea of an external App Store like Palm's Handango. Even jobs admitted iOS is a form of web based OS or what Palm referred to PalmOS or later Web OS.
>>220849195The era is fascinating there was a lot of interest and R&D happening on portable computing
There's a netflix show based on the real story about how google stole what became Google Maps from a small german company and basically hid behind the US government and said "the fuck you gonna do about it lil hans?"
>>220849059>retarded engineersThey were focusing on what they've been told to focus on - corporate bullshit that no one cares about like security and emails. They also spent a lot of money marketing that instead of developing shit that goyim would actually eat up.
>>220849125>They were based in Ontario, Canada.How does it even matter when companies from the communist China are able to compete?
>>220849208Not true. BlackBerry dominated the phone market right in Waterloo.
i love the early part with the palm pilot CEO coming in and trying to flex his dick, that guys shit was cretaceous
>>220849235Coke was popular on wall street. Adderall was and continues to be the stimulant of choice in silicon valley, and he was probably on like 70mg
>>220849102he was right because swipe keyboards didn't exist (and Apple only bothered to put them in in the 2020s)Hunt and peck haptic keyboards are strictly worse than physical keys
>>220849270See >>220849208>>220849279They dominated up until the mid oughts. You know, 2005?
>>220849208because Canada has socialist taxes. You can't have any successful company there.
>>220849219You really saw Dennis come out in some of the screaming parts but he was really good in the role.
>>220849254doesn't google maps need a fuck ton of google cars and satellites to map the place out? How the fuck would a small german company be able to do that?
>>220849184>it's funny because keyboards seem to be slowly coming back.Where? I haven't seen them,
>>220849253this looks more like a child's toy than something a serious business man would use.
>>220849341absolutely but I definitely wanted him to be semi Dennis, its like if I ever see Lalo's actor in something again from BCS I really want him to channel that Lalo autism
>>220849364
>>220849102It is because people in the IT industry and the typical PC user did not understand what Apple was doing. It was not the touchscreen that got them market dominance. Apple had young, 'hip', non nerds with their plastic coloured shitboxes that appealed to normalfags far more than the cream coloured plain 'real' pc's nerds and 'work and corporate' forced them to use.Anyone who used computers did not give a damn because they cared what was inside the case more. Everyone else on earth wanted flash and to show off their purchase. Apple had primed most of the population of the middle class who did not use a PC for hobby related activity to buy based on the brand, which was a vastly untapped market in the 2000's.The iPhone itself made by anyone else and labelled as such would not have cornered the market. People bought iPhones so they could show off and tell other normalfags that they did.However that is only 50% of the cause of their dominance.The other 50% was Obama using public funds to pay for every nigger to get what would otherwise be vastly too expensive for them.These two events meant there was 0% gatekeeping in 07'. All of a sudden hundreds of millions of retards and normalfags all came online at once. It was a mortal wound for the internet as it was and the killing blow is coming with India coming fully online in 10 years.
>>220849376You have to understand the "pen computer" idea was big business it was just a bad idea, tech CEOs are stupid, thats why Jobs walked all over them.
>>220849364by no means are they taking over but I've seen models with slide up keyboards like pic related making a comeback
>>220849360This was before google street view existed. When you only had a globe and could view satellite imagery of anywhere on earth.The tiny german firms patent was deemed invalid and google won the case in US courts
>>220849262That scene where they tried to market to elitists. Be as annoying and obnoxious with your blackberry as possible in golf clubs, first class, etc. Get it seen as a status symbol that people will think they need to be successful. It was smart at first but Apple catered to everyone. What sucks now is that boomers and karens got easy access to the internet and ruined it though and now Apple is seen as some elite status symbol.
>>220849419The iphone was undeniably superior to every product before it in the "pen computer" market
>>220849184>it's funny because keyboards seem to be slowly coming back.I hope so>>220849195>H&Plol
>>220849360>>220849437Also I cant remember all the details but I think the german firm utilized a shitton of publicly accessible satellite data. It was called TerraVision.TerraVision launched like 10 years before Google Maps did
>>220849419>The other 50% was Obama using public funds to pay for every nigger to get what would otherwise be vastly too expensive for them.wait what?
>>220849466>>220849437Americans BTFO German Nazis yet again
>>220849505Obama had a huge bill that helped poors (mostly niggers) get iphones for free
>>220849445No it was not. Outside dense urban areas it was hot garbage and failed to function as a phone. The infrastructure to support it did not exist and both Nokia and Motorola had total dominance. For the actual number of people who used a mobile with any regularity back when you were charged per minute for calls and 50c per text message - industry, government and commercial use - it was nearly worthless. I remember retards having tow phones for fucking years during and after the Iphone release where their reliable work phone was always something else, especially if it was dual analog/digital because it worked anywhere. The Iphone did not.The iPhone primarily was successful due to STATUS and perceived functionality by tech illiterate retards. It just happens they have always been 95% of the population
>>220849505>>220849556Not just the phones but subsidised their bill and internet data.I guarantee most niggers would still thinks computers and the internet voodoo without him.
>>220849563Your thinking of it primarily as a phone not a minicomputer which is what it is. Im tyoing this on a device identical to an iphone which i rarely if ever use for actual telephone communication
>>220849556why the fuck do they need iphones and just just normal phones?
>>220849419>Obama>07lmao fucking retard
First few iPhones didn't do especially well and were basically considered pretty but useless. The biggest reason they finally got some market share was the app store.
>>22084965507 was the beginning, you fucking retard. It was the first half of it with iphone release and twitter etc going mainstream.Obama had the bill ready to go 1 month into office and was even talking about it while campaigning.Events do not happen in a vacuum.
>>220849563>back when you were charged per minute for callsI think it was Nextel that had that push-to-talk feature that was an interesting gimmick. They didn't charge you to use it like they did calls, and it worked like a cellular walkie talkie. I think it faded out of popularity before the iPhone though, as the phones and service were more expensive than competitors and Nextel's coverage was bad in most places. I can still hear the beep they made in my head though
>>220849631Dude, the first generations iphone couldn't do shit
>>220849419I fell into that trap too in the early 00s. I refused to believe that the majority of people would choose to overpay just to flash a brand. So I never invested in Apple. Oh well, my Microsoft and Google shares didn't perform so bad either
>get this to me by friday, no wednesday, or you're fired>get the fuck out of my office if you can't get this deal done>guess what? we're working 18 hour weeks for the next several months>all those years of service? fuck you, get this project done or you're doneWhy do businesscucks like living like this?
>>220849699>Cellular walkie talkieThose things still exist, although I have never heard of anyone actually using one
>>220849445>The iphone was undeniably superior to every productlol no it wasn'tit was mogged by a basic bitch blackberryphones even from years earlier had better functionality and features
>>220849419the touch paradigm is technologically inferior, sadly, that's what normies chose, it opened up the internet to them
>>220849915Makes them feel important obviously
>>220849652they rarely got iphones, they got cheap androids or flip phones
>>220850030Man, that screen reminds me of a more usable internet age.
>>220849059He killed the company culture by bringing in Michael Ironside to cancel movie night and throw away all the Mortal Kombat cabinets. At least in the context of the movie.
>>220849429>>220849402I get your point but its been 20 years, Apple ate the market, everyone had to copy their products, and now that keyboards are back, they're all models of the Apple iPad accessory. Great market capture, really notable stuff
Can't wait to be 75 having trouble updating the app for my Apple Lung
>That's the trouble with selling minutes. There's only one minute in a minute. kino
It was about a phone man, it really was just business. He seemed like he would've been normal off the clock. He wasn't sanctioning people's deaths or anything.
>>220850316Jobs masterfully tapped into the NPC consoomer brain like none of the nerds in silicon valley ever could. I kneel
has texting just died out for everyone or am I just a lonely loser? I remember texting all the time in highschool but now I just can't be bothered. Dating texting is exhausting, group chats I just kinda ignore. the only texts I read now are confirmation codes
I miss my Bold. That was a good ass phone.
>>220850451And he did it by saying>you are actually too stupid to operate a keyboard, its actually degenerate to learn thatAnd then forty thousand imitations of this business model bring us to today
>>220850030I miss phone gimmicks. I liked just playing around with like flipping a phone out, the sliding, or even the rotating thing. Now it's just a brick and it's so boring.
>>220850388he was a typical canadian guy who loved hockey. Shame he got cucked out of buying his own team.
>>220850490They have ones that fold now
>>220850518He could have gotten away with it if he didn't keep trying to relocate the team to bumfuck nowhere Canada.
>>220850486>Hey, I know you like being able to do things. But did you know that's actually really fucking gay and nerdy? Exactly. So buy our overpriced brick with less features. You can get it in pink or blue or green. And don't worry, we'll deliberately and undeniably make it worse as it ages to the point where we'll have multiple lawsuits launched against us. Because we don't give a fuck. And you should buy our shit
>>220849184I hope they do.
>>220849059He tried to move a storied NHL franchise...BEFORE HE EVEN HAD THE TEAM. Dude fucked up BIG.
>>220850527they break if you fuck around with it too much though
>>220850583It's Canada. Don't they have their own hockey teams?
The soundtrack for this was incredible>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFnjZY1vRzk>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuqEpjcBfaUshame that i was left disappointed by the Nirvanna flick since i like Matt Johnson's attitude and personality in the interviews he gives.The Bourdain trailer is looking kinda boilerplate since it steered away from the "handheld" look. Might skip that one totally
>>220849102Didn't somebody at Nokia say they initially dismissed the iPhone as being unusable since "the screen was so big" that the battery life would be like half an hour.
>>220849184no shita decade plus ago mobile phones were designed to be 'mobile'.now that every smartphone is by default 3rd the size of a tablet keyboards make more sense
>>220850206they needed to get their shit together and do actual work. They had the huge outage issue because they were fucking around too much
>>220849059I’m inventing a new tiny pocket printer for smart phones.
>>220850858kinda true, I remember the early smartphones having shit battery life
What is the next leap in technology? Watches that fold out bigger or holographic displays? Some saiyan like scouter?
>>220851110Idk probably like an ocular implant or something. Nobody seems to want smart glasses you can’t even give those fuckers away.
>>220849059the hair pieces in this are way too distracting
>>220851110Hard to imagine. It's like how much more different could PS6 be compared to PS5? Even PS5 is "barely different" to PS4 already. But PS1 to PS2 was a big leap, even PS2 to PS3 was pretty big. It feels like tech is stagnating across the board.
Good luck
>>220851110Projector built into the phoneSome models already have it Once they can fit it inside generic models it'll become commonplace
>>220851152an eye implant is even more invasive than fucking glasses.
>>220851170it's weird Glenn had to shave his head but Jay couldn't just dye his hair gray.
>>220851215projector you still need to project onto something. They really need to get on ironman holographic tech
>>220850456I like my group chat since it’s mostly memes. I sometimes purposefully take 2-3 days to respond to my gf when she texts me. Shes the only one that doesn’t freak out so much about it. I spend all day talking to people, so the last thing I want to do sometimes is talk to more people once I’m clocked out
>>220851110AI glasses that beams light directly into your eyes so that text or a screen is visible in your field of vision. They already exist, but the UI is still pretty bad, so once the big corps latch onto it it will catch on. When I walk around with auto-translate on for say, japanese, and someone speaks japanese in front of me, I get the translated text up in my field of vision in real-time. There's also an interactive AI that's always on, so if anyone asks you a question, the answer pops up immediately in your field of vision. And the light isn't visible to anyone besides you. And they're not clunky like the shitty Meta/Rayban AI glasses either, so nobody can spot them
>>220851252no he didnt, the bald cap he is wearing is worse than jays wig
>>220849254Based. Fuck Germany and the EU.
>>220851372I can't send my normie friends my favorite memes though because they think it's racist or something. How do you get a gf that is ok with texting a few days later?
>>220849254How do you patent a map with gps overlay?
>>220851435Also in case anyone wants them, there are several diffferent types on the market. Look into Even Realities, Vuzix and Halliday. I only use them for the real-time translating feature when I travel. But the point being, once the big tech companies starts producing these types of glasses, there will be a massive leap in terms of usecases
>>220851435>AI glasses that beams light directly into your eyessounds like it'll blind you long term
>>220849184Is it because bloatware makes the onscreen keyboard lag so much, people opt for a sliver of haptic feedback?
>>220851510no he actually shaved it, they talk about it on the Always Sunny podcast
>>220851748>Even Realitiesone of the first results https://youtu.be/qWttjn0ugRI
>>220851800Probably due to the "if you sit too close to the TV it'll blind you" myth that millenials were fed. It's the same concept as Oculus. That doesn't blind you either. And the creator of Oculus is known for using Even Realities glasses to have access to a cheat-sheet during speeches where teleprompters aren't available
>>220851843>black lady is mad that first generation AI glasses doesn't have the UI of an iphone 16
>>220851914you would think it can have some sort of like hand tracking inputs though.
>>220851851that shit makes my eyes hurt and head dizzy though
>>220850623>Now who wants to hear some U2?
>>220850623Silicon shit, that's what my human dogs eat. And I like to rub their noses in it.
>>220851821looks weird af I swear I can see the lone of the cap sometimes and the top looks way too high. if he shaved his head fr I dont know what to think because I swear I can see the caps edges where it meets his actual hair
>>220852260no cap
>>220849102Shill Gates and Microsoft have been behind the times for the past 20 years.
>>220849059> movie ends with their shitty crates of blackberries making that hum that only cheap Chinese electronics make.kino
>>220849915Their lives are sterile bullshit. There is nothing masculine about sitting in an office in a suit all day. Playing golf is gay. Youre still a man so you have to find something to justify your sterile bleak existence so you become a hyper aggressive asshole in your gay little made up world so you can LARP like a tough guy.
>>220852421It was this guy >>220849203 not Gates
I don't understand why the government was so pissy at him for. what did he do wrong?
>>220852597>what did he do wrong?Ruined Canada's chance to lead the tech world right before Silicon Valley took off
>>220852508>*crates of shitty blackberries
>>220852642how?
>>220852508I have a ton of made in china products and none of them made that noise
>>220852276frfr?
>>220849059His hair is way too high on the sides. Had whoever made that bald cap never seen a bald person before?
>>220851578Just get really lucky I guess. She initiates the majority of our conversations so I just wait around until she does just that eventually
>>220850456I keep in touch with my bro across the country via texting and the occasional hour long phone call, my other bros didn't like this dynamic so our friendship died out, sad but you learn who really values your friendship with stuff like this
>>220852508thats how you end a movie with a greater sentiment that is far stronger than the movie alone>we should never have stopped american manufacturing, especially letting China make everything
>>220853100hes not wearing a bald cap>>220851821
>>220849699>>220849947In the early 2000s, my uncle's excavation company would use that to communicate. It was clearer than CB (and i think it was private band, so nobody snooping). And yeah, it was cheaper than using mobile minutes if someone wasn't available on CB. I know a lot of construction guys used it too.
>>220853255with robots and AI tech we should bring manufacturing back to the US.
I got curious and looked up holographic displays and the last breakthrough was 9 years ago with zero progress since then
>>220853397That's pretty much everyone I know who had it. People who worked outdoors. And it was on a cell network so no one else could listen in and you could talk to someone hundreds of miles away, unlike radios. I wanted it but Nextel was the shittiest network in my region and their pricing was a little higher than everyone else.I think they started phasing out PTT once they got bought by Sprint. I didn't see anyone with them by 2005/06.
>>220849059Suck a nigga dick for an iPhone 6Fuck my nigga Terry for a new Blackberry
>>220855090I'm in Canada, and I think was Bell that carried that. I think they stopped when they started rolling out unlimited call plans
>>220849203my dad's company got bought by Steve Balmer+microsoft in the late 90s/early 2000s. he said Balmer was a dickhead who didn't even know what company they were buying. He showed up late on cocaine, said he was happy to aquire other companies name then signed contracts snapped a pic and left. Kinda based
>>220851152ocular implant is 100 years away easily, its gonna take decades of old gens dying out and new gens being born into a pseudo future world before people think its safe (and it won't be at first) to do this kind of surgery
>>220853479a man can dream, our proudest times in history were when we were manufacturing giants, now we can't even use our massive military budget to make our own weapons without relying on tons of components from countries we'll be at war with eventually
