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Contrary to the tone of the article, this is an obligatory reminder that the BlackBerry movie is heavily fictionalized: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/dennis

• Apocryphon 3y ago
  Hopefully it will give Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) the Oscar mod.
• calyth2018 3y ago
  Engadget had been quite biased against BlackBerry for a long long time. "Crucially, though, it's not just like reading a Wikipedia entry. Johnson tells us exactly who Laziridis and Balsillie are from the very first scenes of the movie." This statement's patently false. Aside from failing to spell the name of one of the main characters correctly, anyone who have interacted with the real Mike Lazaridis knows that he's not a meek push-over of a computer nerd. All the review, this one included, that raves about how true and accurate the movie have never been there. And the movie would have been better off if they just used false names, because at least it would be a lot less distracting from all the wild deviations from reality.
• sbarre 3y ago
  Yeah I know a few people who worked at RIM back in the day, and they're all pretty much in full agreement with this op ed.
• babyshake 3y ago
  So is The Social Network, but I still think despite that it gets at some important truths about tech culture.
  • MrOwnPut 3y ago
    Such as?
• MatthiasWandel 3y ago
  The first half of the movie mixes a lot of stuff up date and time wise, and adds a bunch of completely fictional sub-plots. I worked at RIM from 1993 to 2007