Research in Motion rode the smartphone to fame and famine. 'BlackBerry,' starring Jay Baruchel and director Matt Johnson, charts its rise and fall.
When did having the once-unfathomable computer power formerly reserved for rooms full of hardware at an IBM facility fit into your pocket become expected? Ho-hum, even?
If you can count cashing out for millions and even billions of dollars a dashed future, I suppose. But it still must gnaw at Mike Lazaridis, who created the BlackBerry, every time he sees someone use an iPhone. Or uses one himself, maybe.What is 'BlackBerry' about? The meeting goes poorly when Jim Balsillie shoots down the duo’s idea for what we’d think of now as a smartphone. Jim is, to put it bluntly, a jerk, who finds himself fired soon after and offers to join Research in Motion for 50% of the company and the insistence that he be CEO.
Jim, naturally, oversells it, crashing servers as his obsession with buying an NHL team distracts him. Meanwhile, he’s poaching Google engineers to the tune of $10 million, backdating stock options — a practice that is generally frowned upon by the Securities and Exchange Commission, with whom he will run afoul eventually.Does BlackBerry still exist?
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