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I'm convinced BB went extinct because despite having first mover advantage in their game changing blackberry messenger app, RIM refused to make it cross platfor
by phrotoma 2y ago
I'm convinced BB went extinct because despite having first mover advantage in their game changing blackberry messenger app, RIM refused to make it cross platform. Instead of becoming Whatsapp, they built a moat around themselves thinking it would sell more handsets but instead everyone just walked away from their castle.
- rchaud 2y agoA messaging app wouldn't have saved them. Messaging apps didn't make money, enterprise subscriptions to the BES ecosystem did. The Whatsapp comparison doesn't make sense. Blackberry was a profitable B2B communications company with thousands of employees and deep hardware and networks expertise. Whatsapp was like 10 guys who never had a revenue strategy, who got acquihired by Facebook and were never heard from again.