The important thing here is the fact that they had all those years of cybersecurity expertise because they tailored to enterprise consumers and government. They were able to save the company because they had that expertise.
Blackberry phones were more secure than iphones and Android phones. Because of this fact certain countries didn't even allow people to enter the country with a Blackberry device.
Me too, and I had one! But the inability to message other people with other phones made me quickly move onto the next thing. But remember the days when the most expensive phones costed less than $800? Those were the days. 😭
iMessage is backwards compatible with the peasants. BBM also required a special subscription. Loved my BB9700 and Z10 but lack of apps killed the platform.
@@Kedrezac - it's the resistive touch screens that were truly awful. Still used on GPS etc even today! Any decent phone in the past 15-20 years would have a Capacitive touch screen. I've only owned one phone with a resistive touch screen, a Samsung Omnia i900, which was considered the best resistive touch at the time (back in 2008). It was far inferior to the iPhone 3G which released the same year.
I still remember the time my friend lent me his Blackberry for a while, can't remember the model but that satisfying feel of clicking my messages & tweets on a BB device was so unforgettably excellent, not to mention that you don't have to physically see the keyboard to type words confidently.
I used to work for a company that does hedge fund related stuff. We started with BlackBerry phones then moved to Samsung, but our work profile was BlackBerry software. I don't know how they do it, but that system worked. And BlackBerries were my favourite phones. Just simple, sturdy, and the keyboards were satisfying.
My father was one of those old people that couldn't adapt to the touchscreen. He used blackberry for years until it stopped working and then he just switch to Samsung flip phone. That was his last ever phone.
iPhones have access to many messaging apps though. Blackberry however is very laggy and at the time, the amount of messaging apps were limited as well. And tbf, apps like whatsapp, LINE, Kakaotalk, or even messenger would probably be better. But it seems like people use iMessage for the blue chat box haha. I’ve used both Blackberry and iPhone :)
Blackberries were nice, I remember everyone having them, and I'm talking about kids. We loved them. They started making them more and more user friendly, I even had games on mine like mortal combat, some ball maze game, and others, but they didn't keep up with the times after so long of smartphones being out.
Fun fact: the picture you tried to show of Waterloo? That's a picture of Kitchener. I used to shop at that Woolco. That is the Fairview park mall, in Kitchener, about 30 minutes away from Waterloo (if you take King Street). It is in Waterloo county though. When Walmart purchased all of Woolco a few years after this picture was taken, that exact lot became a Walmart and it is still a Walmart today. And even more fun fact I worked at that Walmart, and all over the shelving and other units in the back there were dozens and dozens of Woolco price stickers still stuck to absolutely everything. It was just sort of neat to be there 20 years after the store changed and still see this little piece of history.
I had the Blackberry that you pulled up first on your green screen. I LOVED it! It was my favorite phone to date, even though my current phone is more advanced. I especially loved the keyboard! They were great phones. 💯❤️👍👍👍
That phone was 3 yrs too late,,blackberry z10 should hv released months after iphone first release and should hv migrated to android by the next update...they had the tech and $ to do it..just short sighted management
Waterloo! All those RIM buildings are empty and there are LOTS of them. Used to be a great city but not anymore. We are looking to move sadly. I miss the old Waterloo 😪
Too many people from well out of the country purchasing absolutely every scrap of land and building skyscrapers. Did you notice that that's Fairview park mall in Kitchener in the first image? I did a massive double take.
@Dembai I know someone who lived in that building when it was finished being built and he told me that someone was stabbed to death there the very year it started taking tenant's! This entire area has gone to shit
It’s crazy how quick screens adapted. I’m using an iPhone SE from 2020 with a larger and better iPhone 12 from 2020 right next to me, while in the other room there’s a blackberry charger to a phone with a physical keyboard from 2012
Nooooo! He didn’t do the bleep thing :(. I still remember my dads blackberry. His had a slide out keyboard on the back and it was so fun to play with. Great vid
I remember using a blackberry one time, and I was just messing around watching TH-cam videos on it with whatever data I could get, to sum it up; everybody heard Bowser say “shit”.
My dad loved his blackberry. Infact he always kept a backup. Eventually he lost his last black berry after dropping in water. Now he has shifted to apple but I still miss his blackberry
Oh I used to have one of those phones, I like them very much but like always I was a kid and these phones were confusing but I still stick to it like how I stick to flip phones. Ah the memories
They didn't stop making phones till 2021 or early 2022. I got my Blackberry KeyOne brand new from 2019-2020, and my dad got his Blackberry Key2 in late 2021- early 2022. They were great phones, loved mine, still use mine as a backup phone. I miss having the physical keyboard, now that I have a Samsung, but hey, at least I can still use my Blackberry.
As someone who has worked with a lead developer from BB. The one thing you got wrong or your researchers got wrong by using Google ai the keyboard being “too slow to switch to touch screen”. Blackberry used its keyboard as its biggest selling point. In fact when it did create a touchscreen device it added a unique haptic feedback. Air between the glass and the digitizer that allowed a touch of the touch screen button to feel as it was being depressed (not just vibration. It felt as if you pushed down in that area) the designers and thinkers over at BB felt that the keyboard and its touch feedback was important, super important and they still hold that mentality today.. They are just VERY limited device wise and their devices target people who need security . There are still fortune 500 companies who use Blackberry and BBM software . Speaking of BBM that was also their selling point. They did list a lot because they didn’t create an App Store (that wouldn’t have help as we can see with palm pilots switching to WebOS and then adding an App Store with apps built using html and WebOS JS Applications which really limited their market abilities and games etc. (back then now we can create great games using html and js) and the palm failed. BB was concerned about the keyboard and BBM so much that they should have forgotten about both and adopted Android to compete. Had they done that they could still be making devices today and thier 4B security company could be much more including secure devices and localized SMS over BBM
Had a black pearl model blackberry, little mini computer was awesome. I never had any of the listed issues and the only reason I got rid of it was I had a free upgrade to a Garmin phone.
I had my 2 way when I was 9, my blackberry when I was 18, now I'm stuck on Samsung at 31... My blackberry curve was the shit. Loved it. Hell my 2way pager too.
I started using them in 1999 as I upgraded my non-wireless PDA which I used only for saving phone numbers. When all the sudden I could text someone with it I started recommending to my university friends. That’s when I started and I made my own business simply because I had the luxury of writing people emails while I was not at home and didn’t stop using it till the iPhone was powerful enough to replace it around 2014. When they ended making phones with keyboards.
Funfact: BBM were briefly bought by an Indonesian company Emtek (owner of one of TV station in Indonesia, SCTV) in 2016 and they make it for Android, didnt last long tho they shut it down in 2019 due to having huge loss
When iPhone came out, blackberry started to be popular in Indonesia in 2008. A lot of celebrities and rich people used this phone. Until early 2012 when android replace its popularity.
I missed my blackberry, blackberry messenger, and the whole blackberry time. It was fun, way more than today, when everything is better, but somehow less fun.
They still make them. I am writing this message on one. The company Unihertz makes them. Only issue is some app incompatibility. The app works fine enough, but due to unusual screen shapes it will crop off some of the viewing area.
I remember when my dad had his old silver Blackberry that his old work gave him. I remember when I was a kid he would go into a store and if I didn't want to go in with him I would stay in the truck and play Snake on it. Fun times......
The problem is, the iphone had the exact same issues when it was launched. But the all touch screen design and the OS was really innovative. And they did improve on it with the next devices by adding more innovation and more openness
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Ngl I thought the black berry at first was a calculator lol
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I have a blackberry bold 9930
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The important thing here is the fact that they had all those years of cybersecurity expertise because they tailored to enterprise consumers and government. They were able to save the company because they had that expertise.
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Blackberry phones were more secure than iphones and Android phones. Because of this fact certain countries didn't even allow people to enter the country with a Blackberry device.
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wait what?
@@Baenstelker yeah my dad got his blackberry key note confiscated lmao
@@yusufmohamed5635 No way
@@Baenstelker he is talking blackberry with iphones that came same years not latest ones
as a teenager I always wanted a Blackberry because I thought it was for extremely sophisticated people.
Me too, and I had one! But the inability to message other people with other phones made me quickly move onto the next thing. But remember the days when the most expensive phones costed less than $800? Those were the days. 😭
But it was lol.
Same lol
This is why everyone that wasn't business opted for a sidekick. It was all the fun of the blackberry keyboard, but no serious enterprise apps.
it was at the time
“NiCE PiVOt”😂
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@@HenryBelcaster lol btw love ur vids
True
@@kencathygracie weird
@@balls4839 ?
And that is why cartels started to use blackberries, for how secure they were
"Their messaging platform couldn't be used with other phones"
Meanwhile iMessage: 😅
Exactly, lol.
Tbh there downfall started when they shared bbm on Android. Blackberry users had to pay a premium to use bbm and Android gave it for free.
iMessage is backwards compatible with the peasants. BBM also required a special subscription. Loved my BB9700 and Z10 but lack of apps killed the platform.
@@Deveonn peasant? You mean normal people that don't buy overpriced stuff
@@龗 rather pay too much then have no sense of humor..
I honestly hated touchscreens and had phones with buttons until I was in college. It was a game changer lol.
Then, once your hands were ADULT sized....
@@johncoops6897 lol but no old touchscreens sucked and I didn't realize the tech had gotten better
@@Kedrezac - it's the resistive touch screens that were truly awful. Still used on GPS etc even today!
Any decent phone in the past 15-20 years would have a Capacitive touch screen. I've only owned one phone with a resistive touch screen, a Samsung Omnia i900, which was considered the best resistive touch at the time (back in 2008). It was far inferior to the iPhone 3G which released the same year.
ayo i remember back in the day : people exchanging bbm pins at school 😭
Lol yes
I remember all the nude pictures 😭
Can't fap to those girls now SMH
Miss those days
Same lol everyone in my High school had one and just wanted each others bbm pins lol.
I miss the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10.
I still remember the time my friend lent me his Blackberry for a while, can't remember the model but that satisfying feel of clicking my messages & tweets on a BB device was so unforgettably excellent, not to mention that you don't have to physically see the keyboard to type words confidently.
Me still using a blackberry for my business so I don't get caught by feds
Hehehehe
Lol
FBI OPEN UP
How? BBM doesn't exist anymore
@@anouaressanoussipretty sure they’re joking
blackberry was looked as a really sophisticated brand in my country, but it was amazing as to how quickly they vanished.
Black berry phones are more secure than iPhone and android
I have an iPhone and I love hit but I’m willing to admit when someone is safer for me
for real every politician in my country back then had Blackberries. It was a status symbool
I used to work for a company that does hedge fund related stuff. We started with BlackBerry phones then moved to Samsung, but our work profile was BlackBerry software. I don't know how they do it, but that system worked. And BlackBerries were my favourite phones. Just simple, sturdy, and the keyboards were satisfying.
My father was one of those old people that couldn't adapt to the touchscreen. He used blackberry for years until it stopped working and then he just switch to Samsung flip phone. That was his last ever phone.
"Their messages app only works with other phones"
Hmmm sounds familiar
Sounds like I something to me 😅😂
This channel is criminally underrated. Keep it up
Why would anyone want criminals to rate their channel
@@JayWill_DoIt probably because they are smooth.
@@SunbathinginAntarcticaWell then they better be well dressed.
The 'can't communicate with other phones' is pretty much the same with iphones though.
*cough* *cough* sms *cough* *cough*
iPhones have access to many messaging apps though.
Blackberry however is very laggy and at the time, the amount of messaging apps were limited as well.
And tbf, apps like whatsapp, LINE, Kakaotalk, or even messenger would probably be better. But it seems like people use iMessage for the blue chat box haha.
I’ve used both Blackberry and iPhone :)
You know that’s just blatantly false.
@@ruglinimagine using boring sms cough cough
Loved the buttons on my BB.
It's really sad. I loved it. Great software!
Blackberries were nice, I remember everyone having them, and I'm talking about kids. We loved them. They started making them more and more user friendly, I even had games on mine like mortal combat, some ball maze game, and others, but they didn't keep up with the times after so long of smartphones being out.
But Phone games are crappy tho?
I really like these videos they teach people cool stuff thank you
The keyboard was the best part about these. To this day still my favorite phone I ever owned.
That was my favorite Era of phones....black 🖤 berry
Fun fact: the picture you tried to show of Waterloo? That's a picture of Kitchener. I used to shop at that Woolco. That is the Fairview park mall, in Kitchener, about 30 minutes away from Waterloo (if you take King Street). It is in Waterloo county though.
When Walmart purchased all of Woolco a few years after this picture was taken, that exact lot became a Walmart and it is still a Walmart today.
And even more fun fact I worked at that Walmart, and all over the shelving and other units in the back there were dozens and dozens of Woolco price stickers still stuck to absolutely everything. It was just sort of neat to be there 20 years after the store changed and still see this little piece of history.
I gotta give em credit. Instead of fighting a losing war, they switched their focus to something successful.
Shows the power of diversification
Their history actually starts at General Motors in Ontario Canada. Doing inter building messaging boards (digital signage)
“Remember this? Blackberry.”
Yea I remember the meme
I still have the exact same one.😊
It is beautiful...👌
I always love when you slide up the projector screen in every video
I had the Blackberry that you pulled up first on your green screen. I LOVED it! It was my favorite phone to date, even though my current phone is more advanced. I especially loved the keyboard! They were great phones. 💯❤️👍👍👍
Blackberry with full swipe gestures and no home button was unreal and got bashed for it😂😂
That phone was 3 yrs too late,,blackberry z10 should hv released months after iphone first release and should hv migrated to android by the next update...they had the tech and $ to do it..just short sighted management
Waterloo! All those RIM buildings are empty and there are LOTS of them. Used to be a great city but not anymore. We are looking to move sadly. I miss the old Waterloo 😪
Too many people from well out of the country purchasing absolutely every scrap of land and building skyscrapers. Did you notice that that's Fairview park mall in Kitchener in the first image? I did a massive double take.
@Dembai I know someone who lived in that building when it was finished being built and he told me that someone was stabbed to death there the very year it started taking tenant's! This entire area has gone to shit
Imagine growing old and telling your grand kids about that obscure security company selling cellphones with l.e.d ball that could change color
It’s crazy how quick screens adapted. I’m using an iPhone SE from 2020 with a larger and better iPhone 12 from 2020 right next to me, while in the other room there’s a blackberry charger to a phone with a physical keyboard from 2012
You guys think anyway ever said.. "hey i got that Rim job i always wanted"
100% yes lol. I have friends that used to work for RIM. It was a joke for longer than it should have. Funny at first though!
Nooooo! He didn’t do the bleep thing :(. I still remember my dads blackberry. His had a slide out keyboard on the back and it was so fun to play with. Great vid
Nice work on this video ❤
hears the name BLACK BERRY
Indian's: sweating intensively
I remember those days. Everyones dream was owning a blackberry
Gosh, I still wish we had these phones. I had a huge dream to own a BlackBerry.
I remember using a blackberry one time, and I was just messing around watching TH-cam videos on it with whatever data I could get, to sum it up; everybody heard Bowser say “shit”.
Woah first one here on a verified youtuber
I think they made cell phones till 2018? Not 2016.
I really enjoyed the blackberry days.
Waterloo
Napoleon: 😰
There’s nothing we can do…
@@VaderTheTater amour plastique plays in the background
My dad loved his blackberry. Infact he always kept a backup. Eventually he lost his last black berry after dropping in water. Now he has shifted to apple but I still miss his blackberry
“Yeah man i just got the rim job ive always wanted”
still have my BB Pearl, was addicted to Brickbreaker game. I adored that phone.
Come around all of a sudden you're on my phone everyday
The Era of Curse words has begun 😂😂
"I mean what the F*ck..." 😂😂 Love this
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I had one! I loved it!
CAN u reply?❤
Can you??!
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Let me let you in on a secret!! "Even others can reply". Hush 🤫 now. It's a secret. 😉🤞. *** Just Kidding😜😉. 🤣🤣🤣
I really wish a phone manufacturer would bring back their version of the blackberry. That was my favorite phone of all
I had a blackberry torch. I loved it
I loved my blackberry! It was so awesome at the time. ❤
The animated characters talking reminded me of Poptropica
My mom had that blackberry phone, it's fun playing around it's recording cus it make some goofy ahh sounds when sped up using the bar at the bottom
I truly miss my Blackberry so much.
I remember wanting a Razr and a blackberry as a kid. I didn’t even need a phone lol they looked so cool.
honestly they were so cute and i loved the small buttons. i used two, the last one being a curve 8520 that i used until around ten years ago lol
Oh I used to have one of those phones, I like them very much but like always I was a kid and these phones were confusing but I still stick to it like how I stick to flip phones.
Ah the memories
Yeah sometimes i miss the black berry everyone in my High school had one. It was so popular lol and everyone just wanted each others bbm pins.
My highschool phone is blackberry and it is much better than you expected🥰💗
I’d a curve 8520 and later bold 9900,almost a decade ago! RIP Blackberry and BBM
Wow... I still learn alot when I find a video
I have used Blackberry tablet called playbook, nothing feels like the quality of hardware it had back then.
I loved the click screen on my Blackberry.
My grandma used to have one of those because she worked at a bank. She had a few logic puzzles on it and I used to play them all the time.
They didn't stop making phones till 2021 or early 2022. I got my Blackberry KeyOne brand new from 2019-2020, and my dad got his Blackberry Key2 in late 2021- early 2022. They were great phones, loved mine, still use mine as a backup phone. I miss having the physical keyboard, now that I have a Samsung, but hey, at least I can still use my Blackberry.
I still have my blackberry curve, loved and preferred how the keypads felt rather than the touchscreens at that time
As someone who has worked with a lead developer from BB. The one thing you got wrong or your researchers got wrong by using Google ai the keyboard being “too slow to switch to touch screen”. Blackberry used its keyboard as its biggest selling point. In fact when it did create a touchscreen device it added a unique haptic feedback. Air between the glass and the digitizer that allowed a touch of the touch screen button to feel as it was being depressed (not just vibration. It felt as if you pushed down in that area) the designers and thinkers over at BB felt that the keyboard and its touch feedback was important, super important and they still hold that mentality today.. They are just VERY limited device wise and their devices target people who need security . There are still fortune 500 companies who use Blackberry and BBM software . Speaking of BBM that was also their selling point. They did list a lot because they didn’t create an App Store (that wouldn’t have help as we can see with palm pilots switching to WebOS and then adding an App Store with apps built using html and WebOS JS Applications which really limited their market abilities and games etc. (back then now we can create great games using html and js) and the palm failed. BB was concerned about the keyboard and BBM so much that they should have forgotten about both and adopted Android to compete. Had they done that they could still be making devices today and thier 4B security company could be much more including secure devices and localized SMS over BBM
I was like 2 days ago talking to my about BlackBerry and how popular it was as much as iPhone now.. 😊
Lmao I live in waterloo and my dad has like 5 blackberry phones from when he worked their
I feel old now. I remember pagers lol. I wanted one so bad 😆😆😆
Had a black pearl model blackberry, little mini computer was awesome. I never had any of the listed issues and the only reason I got rid of it was I had a free upgrade to a Garmin phone.
I had my 2 way when I was 9, my blackberry when I was 18, now I'm stuck on Samsung at 31... My blackberry curve was the shit. Loved it. Hell my 2way pager too.
At least Blackberry was not forgotten and still doing business with their main audience.
I love how he said "What the fuck happened to them" so calmly🤣
I still love blackberry and its keyboard was the best for texters and browsers
I started using them in 1999 as I upgraded my non-wireless PDA which I used only for saving phone numbers. When all the sudden I could text someone with it I started recommending to my university friends. That’s when I started and I made my own business simply because I had the luxury of writing people emails while I was not at home and didn’t stop using it till the iPhone was powerful enough to replace it around 2014. When they ended making phones with keyboards.
In 2000 I invested $500 into RIM stock, and in a Year I turned it into roughly $12000 cdn I somewhat recall
Where to invest
My dad had one of those and I remember it had a lot of games my favorite was one with spider man
Funfact: BBM were briefly bought by an Indonesian company Emtek (owner of one of TV station in Indonesia, SCTV) in 2016 and they make it for Android, didnt last long tho they shut it down in 2019 due to having huge loss
RIP Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola 😔
Kinda genius to switch to a cybersecurity site
I still love the Blackberry Curve. My fav. Hate this touchscreen phone of mine.
Damn the blueberrie really said "i always come back" 💀
When iPhone came out, blackberry started to be popular in Indonesia in 2008. A lot of celebrities and rich people used this phone.
Until early 2012 when android replace its popularity.
I grew up with on of these blackberry's.. they were cool
I had a Blackberry 9700, it was rubbish. The only phones I regret more than that were the HTC Sensation and Galaxy S II.
BlackBerry Storm was the turning point of the company
I missed my blackberry, blackberry messenger, and the whole blackberry time. It was fun, way more than today, when everything is better, but somehow less fun.
I really wish full keyboard phones would make a comeback. I miss the sidekick so much.
They still make them. I am writing this message on one. The company Unihertz makes them. Only issue is some app incompatibility. The app works fine enough, but due to unusual screen shapes it will crop off some of the viewing area.
I remember when my dad had his old silver Blackberry that his old work gave him. I remember when I was a kid he would go into a store and if I didn't want to go in with him I would stay in the truck and play Snake on it. Fun times......
I loved my blackberry wish I still had it to this day
My grandma used to own one, i loved playing that red ball game in it, back in 2017.
I remember them so well with the little leather case😂😂😂😂😂😂
Atleast the people who made blackberry found their calling.
Still used my blackberry torch until they dropped support in 2020, was a good phone.
I used to have a Blackberry!!! 🥰
The problem is, the iphone had the exact same issues when it was launched. But the all touch screen design and the OS was really innovative.
And they did improve on it with the next devices by adding more innovation and more openness