We all remember the Canadian BlackBerry phone, the yanks wanted access to all the phone calls from Google, BlackBerry and all the other providers in the states. BlackBerry built their popularity to be a secure system and refused the yanks; the other said they did not give in to the demands, but we know they all did. They could not force Canadian Blackberry; "bottom line," they were kicked out of the states and are now gone. Unfortunately, as one person said, Canadians use their servers, Google, for looking up your car parts. If you think the two-sided camera on your phone is for your convenience, I suggest not taking it into the washroom with you.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 points 6 minutes ago

That is the craziest, very incorrect story. They don't exist because they got murdered by the smart phone. They chose not to pivot towards the future and destroyed themselves.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

I seem to recall a big controversy at the time when RIM butted heads with Saudi Arabia about adding back doors into their messaging and RIM bent over and did it for them.

And the US government played no part in the demise of RIM. Apple ate their lunch when they released the iPhone and RIM was so arrogant they decided they had the business market cornered and kept puttering along status quo. Then iPhone started getting enterprise adoption and Blackberry lost its last competitive advantage.

It’s sad there’s no Blackberry anymore but it died because of a foot gun.