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biker142541 on July 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI is turning Apple into a "loser"

No, not really. Peak Blackberry was both tiny compared to iPhone usage today and in a very different context, with very little of the economy or daily lives invested directly into a rich ecosystem dependent on the phones.

ethbr1 on July 10, 2025 [–]

Disagree. A huge portion of the business world was Blackberry-centric.

The cogent lesson is that ecosystems which are fundamentally supported by user network effects should ignore user networks at their peril.

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