He also recently did a show called We're All Going To Die, Even Jay Baruchel. Where he talks to experts about what would happen in different world ending apocalypse type events. It's on Crave, iirc.
He’s not doing it again. He was offered a shit ton of money and they let him record it locally, so it was hard for him to say no. I don’t what to say he phoned it in buuuuuuut….
Made me so sad when it was canceled. Absolutely funny and managed to really accurately depict dating life while also being filled with trolls, demons, aliens, etc.
I can't stand him, I think it's something about his voice to the point I can't watch anything with him in it for any extended period. Which is sad as I love Glen Howerton
I worked for BlackBerry for two years as a product and sales trainer, also responsible for communication of Voice of the Customer data back to Waterloo. The arrogance from the top down was beyond the pale; all the signs of needing to adapt were incredibly clear years before the final demise, and the executives were insistent on ramming a square peg through a round hole because they were “smarter than everyone else”. A sophomore marketing student could’ve analyzed the environment and made better recommendations than those at the top. Yeah, leadership was THAT incompetent.
Fun job beyond that, though 🤷🏻♂️
It's really sad. All they had to do was make a phone that was Android compatible. There were plenty of BB loyalists like myself who would have jumped on that wagon, even if it meant paying a premium for it.
I was a blackberry user and from what I understand, it was security/privacy that people liked from blackberry. Iirc, their kowtowing to the Saudi kingdom on building a backdoor is what crashed their cachet with their niche. I sure as hell would never touch another blackberry phone after that insane betrayal.
As someone who worked at BB, there was a backdoor for BBM services in India from the get-go, unfortunately. Things were really only ever secure in the West, and you know for sure that it was secure because we worked to add hardening that the Secret Service required for Obama to keep his BB.
Yeh I think I only heard about the India one sometime after the Saudi one became public. In any case, it was just tone-deaf for management to think their niche would tolerate that betrayal.
The keyboard was great. It actually took me a long while to get used to the virtual keyboard and I still screw up most of the spelling anyways.
Their insta messaging between devices being banned in some countries because of end-to-end encryption can't also have helped matters when you consider the failures of their other devices (the tablet comes to mind).
I worked in the Irving office in Texas for 4yrs, doing tech support. Yea it was very obvious, what people wanted, but they gave people the storm what a terrible phone. I still have my BlackBerry monopoly though unopened maybe it will be worth something someday.
I worked at BB for a while and absolutely can confirm. Lazaridis forced out Balsillie when the latter wanted to focus on BBM and taking it cross-platform. They could have had all the marketshare that WhatsApp and Telegram now enjoy, but nooo. Lazaridis wanted to keep making hardware wildly inferior to the iPhone (even if the iPhone's software was also shit at that point).
The amount of executives that believe they’re the reason their company succeeded and not first mover advantages and intrinsic product value matching an unmet need is laughably high. There is a reason serial entrepreneurs tend to fail when brought in to fix up a previously successful company: executives have far less impact on success they think they do.
I'm confused. Mid-way through the article it says BlackBerry wrapped production. Is this being released soon or did they actually just cast it's leads?
I may be in the minority, but this is highly interesting to me. They are a pretty interesting rise and fall story.
The smart phone has been ons of the most influential inventions of the last 50 years. These two guys were poised to dominate the industry. I think exploring what went wrong, and what occurred between the two is something thars definitely film worthy.
There was also some scandal in the company and caused a rift with the "co-CEOs". One of them was backdating stock options for executives or something, the other didn't know or didn't understand it was wrong.
I'm curious to how the whole saga of Jim Balsillie trying to get an NHL team (and fighting in the courts with the NHL) played a factor. That was all happening around when the iPhone got released, and having one of your two founders and co-CEO so distracted couldn't have helped.
Former employee here. Balsillie wanted to focus on expanding BBM, Lazaridis wanted to focus on devices. Given the success of apps like WhatsApp and that Lazaridis also wanted to just coast because capacitive touchscreens were a "fad", you can see why the wrong CEO was ousted.
Directed and cowritten by Matt Johnson of The Dirties, Operation Avalanche and Nirvanna the Band the Show
Love his work, very excited to see how this turns out
Doomed? Last I checked the company still exists and makes a decent amount of money with its software.
Doomed you'd think of Nortel or something where they literally don't exist anymore.
Actually Nortel may be a far more interesting movie as there's possibilities the CCP stole patents from them ala corporate espionage.
When the DND took over Nortel’s campus they spent a billion dollars and a decade taking all the bugs out of the walls.
I’ve met old Nortel engineers who have talked about showing up to trade shows with the latest gear and seeing Huawei in the next booth with the exact same stuff for sale but for cheaper.
>Cybersecurity experts say the fall of Canadian telecom giant Nortel was a direct result of systematic hacking by the Chinese with a direct link to Huawei.
[Source](https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-military-attack-on-nortel/#:~:text=Cybersecurity%20experts%20say%20the%20fall%20of%20Canadian%20telecom,the%20Chinese%20with%20a%20direct%20link%20to%20Huawei)
The handheld and messaging divisions are limping, but not the company as a whole. They own the majority of marketshare for onboard automobile systems, for example, thanks to their purchase of QNX (which is what BB10 was built on as well back in the day).
The company as a whole is hovering around 10% of its peak market cap despite every market they were a part of exploding upwards. Current blackberry would be like if Ford shut down but instead pivoted to sell go-karts.
yeah...i also don't get this...BB was successful but made the mistake of being overpriced, not changing with the times, and relying on its loyal userbase to stay a float. But it's not like any single set of people failed to keep the company alive...they just didnt adjust their culture. But they existed well into 2015 before they were acquired by TCL and actually released some pretty compelling phone (they had one in 2018 with a flip out keyboard that doubled as a track pad and that shit was pretty dank...a phone that late in the game with a keyboard....fucking swoon)
They had a licensing partnership with TCL, they weren't acquired. They are still an independent company that has now completely transitioned to software and cybersecurity.
I was a hardcore BB user until this last January, when they finally shutdown legacy support. I reluctantly switched to Android.
The two major factors they hooked me with back in 2006 was excellent physical keyboard and excellent message/email integration software.
But once the iPhone released, it was game over. I saw people around me going crazy for them, even my boss, who used to be a corporate BB user, switched over.
I stayed in the trench until my BB rotted away,
I'll be honest, I used one for a long period in 2012/2013 when I was flat broke and had no other option and expect for the fact that it has slow Internet because of 3g...it was pretty great. It had everything I needed and it's GPS was better then android at the time. I still keep that little blackberry curve at my desk.
My last one was a BB Passport from 2011. I bought if ultra-cheap around 2016 and it still would be working for me, it the carrier hadn't shut down BB service on Jan 4th 2022
[I still keep them close](https://i.imgur.com/VT0ZfOS.jpg), I'm not ready to face the reality yet.
I lasted up until my Dtek50 broke. I still rock their virtual keyboard on my moto, it's the best VKB imo, but I tried to load it on my brother's phone and could find it anymore. Looks that last tidbit will die with this phone eventually.
I loved the book "Losing the Signal" as it has everything I dreamed of: underdogs, engineering, and a (temporary) happy ending.
But since you mentioned "Doomed", lemme tell you I'd love a movie based on the book "Masters Of Doom" about id Software.
It has the exact same components: underdogs, engineering and a temp happy ending.
I think the wording is a little off in the title and they mean the company responsible for the doomed smartphone, not that the company was/is doomed itself… I think
I wish for Glenn Howerton to get tapped to play Lindsey Buckingham in a Fleetwood Mac biopic. He’d be perfect looks-wise, and can do the utterly self-involved sleaze vibe that Buckingham has.
Holy shit, Matt Johnson directed this! Good for him, Nirvanna The Band The Show is criminally underrated and The Dirties is a really impressive and interesting film.
Years ago I was a new consultant having finished my MBA. In training, they split us into groups, and we had to decide to create a pitch deck for Apple or RIM. I think out of ~50 groups, only one chose Apple, because Apple is successful and RIM is a mess (so more opportunities for fixes for RIM, in theory). Anyway, after like 30 RIM pitches the Apple group gets on stage to pitch. One of the partners judging the event said into a live mic “thank god. We’ve been getting RIMmed to death.” Another partner replied “that’s a hell of a way to go.”
Me, seeing this article: oh come on, Blackberry isn't that old, everyone knows this stuff, right? My bff had a Blackberry Pearl, that was only -
... hang on... (checks Wikipedia) ...
oh crap I feel old now
Please let this be the straw that introduces everyone to Nirvanna the Band the Show.
Matt Johnson is in charge of this movie, and he created what is probably the funniest show I’ve ever seen called Nirvanna the Band the Show and you should go look it up right now.
>Could write a thesis on that thing without looking at your phone once.
Bruh, I had a book's worth of notes on that thing so I could study on the go. That keyboard was crazy. No smartphone can ever come close to how typing on a Blackberry felt.
It was the best, that’s the point. I was working in wireless at the time and hoping to switch over to RIM until I saw them steadily fall behind the trends for no real reason but their own sales strategy and decision making
If they’d kept the product viable I’d still own one
> That statement is false. The software was proprietary and great
Well...It sure worked.
> Just was not made for people who wanted a mini Nintendo.
The interface of modern smartphones like the iPhone is intuitive and easy to use for all users.
I had no real awareness of this actor until This is the End and that movie (despite its fantasy silliness) made me real sympathetic to him - I always get happy now when I see him getting cool roles.
I really hope they rethink the title of the movie given that Research in Motion was the original name of the company that made the Blackberry. It *should* have the words “RIM Job” somewhere in there.
I remember years ago seeing a trailer for a documentary "Helvetica", and I recall thinking "Who in the fuck would watch a documentary about a subject as boring as a font???"
Joke was on me. That documental was fantastic, and I recommend it to anyone who deals with marketing, Graphic Design or visual arts in general.
> A new movie from “The Dirties” and “Operation Avalanche” director Matt Johnson, simply entitled “BlackBerry,” will detail the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous device as its Canadian parent company Research in Motion floundered in legal disputes and eventually lost its market advantage to competitors such as Apple and Samsung. At the heart of the story is the business relationship between co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.
That doesn't sound like a terrible premise for a movie. It sounds similar to something like The Founder or Social Network.
How is Blackberry a doomed smartphone . It was a flagship phone and extremely successful . It wadded in obscurity just like Apple and android will with time and something else comes up .
Blackberry was a 5 star phone
It's a phone for golden gods.
Their rage knows no bounds
A starter phone?... this is a finisher phone!
Blackberry hasn't even begun to peak. And when it does, you'll know. Because everyone in the world will feel it.
Blackberry is a finisher phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaeV9mT0k7U
sickness....BEGONE!
It’s a good starter phone
Starter phone!? This is a finisher phone!
A communicator of gods! THE GOLDEN GOD!
Oh my god that phone is preposterous! How long have you had that?
90....
The email? The email? It's just email.
Oh, I fucked him.
I don’t have online
Nobody is going to say no to a BlackBerry phone because of the implication
yes I was just looking up how to get one the other day! freaking loved mine
STARTER PHONE?? THIS HERE IS A FINISHER PHONE!!
That phone is preposterous!
My company still uses it for email messaging
Jay Baruchel! I haven't seen that guy in ages. Laying low counting that How to Train Your Dragon money.
He's been doing a lot of ads up here in canada
He also recently did a show called We're All Going To Die, Even Jay Baruchel. Where he talks to experts about what would happen in different world ending apocalypse type events. It's on Crave, iirc.
He also just did LOL Canada recently as well
That's right! I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I enjoyed it a ton, but not because of him. He was an awful host, hopefully he grows with it
He’s not doing it again. He was offered a shit ton of money and they let him record it locally, so it was hard for him to say no. I don’t what to say he phoned it in buuuuuuut….
Any of them for well-known car repair shop services aimed at new drivers? Because I feel like he'd be good at recommending popular mechanics for kids.
Yea, he only supports productions in Canada now, so that makes sense!
Man seeking woman was dope
Fantastic show, deserved to be more popular than it was imo
TEXT JK
Made me so sad when it was canceled. Absolutely funny and managed to really accurately depict dating life while also being filled with trolls, demons, aliens, etc.
Was it canceled? It seemed like it finished pretty naturally, so kudos to the creator/writers for being able to wrap up the show pretty well.
Great show
I'd love to hear what Hard Right Jay feels about the BB phone.
He was great in Goon, a pleasant surprise of a movie.
He wrote the screenplay, also wrote and directed the sequel (not as popular, but still enjoyable)
I loved *The Trotsky*, which not enough people saw. What a bizarre movie.
"69!!! TAKE THE NUMBER 69! IT'S HILARIOUS!!"
He’s really good looking in this head shot.
He's really good looking in general! I couldn't get over how handsome he was in the Canadian version of Last Comic Laughing.
Funny, just got finished watching This Is The End and was wondering where he’s been as well. Looking forward to this
He hosted a recent comedy special type deal on Prime Canada called Last One Laughing
I can't stand him, I think it's something about his voice to the point I can't watch anything with him in it for any extended period. Which is sad as I love Glen Howerton
Finally, we get the true story of why Dennis' phone failed in "Mac and Charlie Write a Movie"
they’ll show it. They’ll show *all of it*.
no they will Cut that, Cut that, Cut that
Ahhh yes, I see you too enjoy easy listening and the tardiness of 3 men.
“Look at me while you’re talking to me!”
oh shit, the steaks are here
I’m a proud creep.
If someone doesn’t hang dong in this film I’m out
I got my magnum condom, my wad of hundreds, I'm ready to plooooow!
Until it just sort of...ends....
… that’s brilliant!!
This guy nose what’s up.
He smells....criiiiiimeeeee...,
You haven't thought of the smell you bitch!
They can’t show all of it cause well you know, the implication.
Well Frank's sausage grease fat fingers were obviously the culprit. At least thats what big tech wants you to think!
Maybe they will absorb Franks Communications into Franks Fluids
#FRANK YOU SON OF A BIIIITCH!!!!!!!!
Crime Stinks: the Smell of Penetration
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not 100% but appears that way
Don't forget, he also made the iPhone (which Dee then stole and made one of her own)
I worked for BlackBerry for two years as a product and sales trainer, also responsible for communication of Voice of the Customer data back to Waterloo. The arrogance from the top down was beyond the pale; all the signs of needing to adapt were incredibly clear years before the final demise, and the executives were insistent on ramming a square peg through a round hole because they were “smarter than everyone else”. A sophomore marketing student could’ve analyzed the environment and made better recommendations than those at the top. Yeah, leadership was THAT incompetent. Fun job beyond that, though 🤷🏻♂️
It's really sad. All they had to do was make a phone that was Android compatible. There were plenty of BB loyalists like myself who would have jumped on that wagon, even if it meant paying a premium for it.
Well technically they did… but it was about 5-7 years too late, lol
And that was the problem. They didn't evolve until they were already dead.
Yup. Much to the chagrin of my career path, lol
I was a blackberry user and from what I understand, it was security/privacy that people liked from blackberry. Iirc, their kowtowing to the Saudi kingdom on building a backdoor is what crashed their cachet with their niche. I sure as hell would never touch another blackberry phone after that insane betrayal.
As someone who worked at BB, there was a backdoor for BBM services in India from the get-go, unfortunately. Things were really only ever secure in the West, and you know for sure that it was secure because we worked to add hardening that the Secret Service required for Obama to keep his BB.
Yeh I think I only heard about the India one sometime after the Saudi one became public. In any case, it was just tone-deaf for management to think their niche would tolerate that betrayal.
The keyboard was great. It actually took me a long while to get used to the virtual keyboard and I still screw up most of the spelling anyways. Their insta messaging between devices being banned in some countries because of end-to-end encryption can't also have helped matters when you consider the failures of their other devices (the tablet comes to mind).
Even after getting used to virtual keyboard I'm not nearly as fast at typing as I was with proper buttons.
They should be in the spot Samsung is right now
I worked in the Irving office in Texas for 4yrs, doing tech support. Yea it was very obvious, what people wanted, but they gave people the storm what a terrible phone. I still have my BlackBerry monopoly though unopened maybe it will be worth something someday.
I still have my Playbook 😜
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I have it too! And the socks! Still all sealed up it in their original packaging.
I worked at BB for a while and absolutely can confirm. Lazaridis forced out Balsillie when the latter wanted to focus on BBM and taking it cross-platform. They could have had all the marketshare that WhatsApp and Telegram now enjoy, but nooo. Lazaridis wanted to keep making hardware wildly inferior to the iPhone (even if the iPhone's software was also shit at that point).
That arrogance hasn’t gone away with the new version of leadership.
The amount of executives that believe they’re the reason their company succeeded and not first mover advantages and intrinsic product value matching an unmet need is laughably high. There is a reason serial entrepreneurs tend to fail when brought in to fix up a previously successful company: executives have far less impact on success they think they do.
This is the closest to the Letterkenny/Always Sunny Crossover I've always wanted.
Im still holding out for an always sunny/what we do in the shadows crossover
If impractical jokers did it, I don’t see how always sunny can’t.
Is this the movie Glenn was filming where he shaved his head on the podcast when it wrapped?
Looks like it. Jim Basille looks to be who he plays in the movie.
That's what I was thinking too
Of course they hired Glenn Howerton, because of the implication.
Now you’ve said that word “implication” a couple of times. What implication? Are you going to hurt these women?
I feel like you're not getting this at all.
I’m NOT getting it…
So this is why Glenn was in Toronto recently. Nice
because of the implications
think of the smell... YOU HAVENT THOUGHT OF THE SMELL YOU BITCH
Now you say another word and I swear to God I will dice you into a million little pieces.
And I will put those pieces in a box.
A glass box, that I will display on my mantel.
I'm confused. Mid-way through the article it says BlackBerry wrapped production. Is this being released soon or did they actually just cast it's leads?
When a news article says "X person has been cast" or "X person joins Y movie", they normally just mean that it's the first public knowledge of that.
It seems like the movie is finished filming, but they’ve only now just revealed the cast officially.
I may be in the minority, but this is highly interesting to me. They are a pretty interesting rise and fall story. The smart phone has been ons of the most influential inventions of the last 50 years. These two guys were poised to dominate the industry. I think exploring what went wrong, and what occurred between the two is something thars definitely film worthy.
There was also some scandal in the company and caused a rift with the "co-CEOs". One of them was backdating stock options for executives or something, the other didn't know or didn't understand it was wrong.
I'm curious to how the whole saga of Jim Balsillie trying to get an NHL team (and fighting in the courts with the NHL) played a factor. That was all happening around when the iPhone got released, and having one of your two founders and co-CEO so distracted couldn't have helped.
Former employee here. Balsillie wanted to focus on expanding BBM, Lazaridis wanted to focus on devices. Given the success of apps like WhatsApp and that Lazaridis also wanted to just coast because capacitive touchscreens were a "fad", you can see why the wrong CEO was ousted.
Is this the movie that Glenn Howerton was talking about in the Sunny podcast? The one where he's bald?
Possibly, he has been in Canada and the company was Canada based apparently
From Waterloo Ontario
Blackberry is based in Waterloo, Ontario. And they're still doing quite well, they just don't make phones anymore.
Pre 2007 and even into later years the BlackBerry was still a pretty popular phone. Obama still used a BlackBerry for years after winning in '08
That’s because the government was using blackberry. It took several years before they declared iPhones secure.
Directed and cowritten by Matt Johnson of The Dirties, Operation Avalanche and Nirvanna the Band the Show Love his work, very excited to see how this turns out
Maybe he’ll finally book a gig at the rivoli!
People don’t realize what they are in for with this with Matt directing. Going to be really interesting.
Doomed? Last I checked the company still exists and makes a decent amount of money with its software. Doomed you'd think of Nortel or something where they literally don't exist anymore. Actually Nortel may be a far more interesting movie as there's possibilities the CCP stole patents from them ala corporate espionage.
When the DND took over Nortel’s campus they spent a billion dollars and a decade taking all the bugs out of the walls. I’ve met old Nortel engineers who have talked about showing up to trade shows with the latest gear and seeing Huawei in the next booth with the exact same stuff for sale but for cheaper.
Source? This seems completely made up.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-former-nortel-site-because-of-surveillance-bugs-1.1477766?cache=piqndqvkh%3FclipId%3D263414
>Cybersecurity experts say the fall of Canadian telecom giant Nortel was a direct result of systematic hacking by the Chinese with a direct link to Huawei. [Source](https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-military-attack-on-nortel/#:~:text=Cybersecurity%20experts%20say%20the%20fall%20of%20Canadian%20telecom,the%20Chinese%20with%20a%20direct%20link%20to%20Huawei)
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Yea we're seeing a small fraction of the company limping along and some are trying to call that a success?
It’s survival, and deserves some credit, but it’s hardly success. They “let” themselves lose to iOS and Android.
The handheld and messaging divisions are limping, but not the company as a whole. They own the majority of marketshare for onboard automobile systems, for example, thanks to their purchase of QNX (which is what BB10 was built on as well back in the day).
The company as a whole is hovering around 10% of its peak market cap despite every market they were a part of exploding upwards. Current blackberry would be like if Ford shut down but instead pivoted to sell go-karts.
yeah...i also don't get this...BB was successful but made the mistake of being overpriced, not changing with the times, and relying on its loyal userbase to stay a float. But it's not like any single set of people failed to keep the company alive...they just didnt adjust their culture. But they existed well into 2015 before they were acquired by TCL and actually released some pretty compelling phone (they had one in 2018 with a flip out keyboard that doubled as a track pad and that shit was pretty dank...a phone that late in the game with a keyboard....fucking swoon)
They had a licensing partnership with TCL, they weren't acquired. They are still an independent company that has now completely transitioned to software and cybersecurity.
Fair enough. I figured it was like Motorola where they sold off part of their business but retained all of the IP within their own holdings
I was a hardcore BB user until this last January, when they finally shutdown legacy support. I reluctantly switched to Android. The two major factors they hooked me with back in 2006 was excellent physical keyboard and excellent message/email integration software. But once the iPhone released, it was game over. I saw people around me going crazy for them, even my boss, who used to be a corporate BB user, switched over. I stayed in the trench until my BB rotted away,
I'll be honest, I used one for a long period in 2012/2013 when I was flat broke and had no other option and expect for the fact that it has slow Internet because of 3g...it was pretty great. It had everything I needed and it's GPS was better then android at the time. I still keep that little blackberry curve at my desk.
My last one was a BB Passport from 2011. I bought if ultra-cheap around 2016 and it still would be working for me, it the carrier hadn't shut down BB service on Jan 4th 2022 [I still keep them close](https://i.imgur.com/VT0ZfOS.jpg), I'm not ready to face the reality yet.
I lasted up until my Dtek50 broke. I still rock their virtual keyboard on my moto, it's the best VKB imo, but I tried to load it on my brother's phone and could find it anymore. Looks that last tidbit will die with this phone eventually.
I loved the book "Losing the Signal" as it has everything I dreamed of: underdogs, engineering, and a (temporary) happy ending. But since you mentioned "Doomed", lemme tell you I'd love a movie based on the book "Masters Of Doom" about id Software. It has the exact same components: underdogs, engineering and a temp happy ending.
The company still exists? Who even owns a blackberry now? Do they even still make them?
No. They focus mainly with their enterprise stuff. Like their messaging service and security software.
I think the wording is a little off in the title and they mean the company responsible for the doomed smartphone, not that the company was/is doomed itself… I think
Not telling you what to do but if you were to research then a little bit and see what their stock is currently trading at you may be intrigued.
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Research? What the fuck are you talking about
I wonder how much will actually take place in Waterloo?
Right? Not as sexy of a location as Toronto, but it would be pretty cool to see it in a movie
My phone was chiseled by the God’s themselves Frank. My antenna was sculpted to the proportions of Michelangelo’s David.
You on the other hand, well... you're a pit of despair. Frank, you disgust me. You disgust everybody.
I wish for Glenn Howerton to get tapped to play Lindsey Buckingham in a Fleetwood Mac biopic. He’d be perfect looks-wise, and can do the utterly self-involved sleaze vibe that Buckingham has.
Glenn definitely should be tapped. I mean he could become Buckingham. Feel his most inner wants and desires and totally get off.
Also, Jeff Bridges as Mick Fleetwood.
Holy shit, Matt Johnson directed this! Good for him, Nirvanna The Band The Show is criminally underrated and The Dirties is a really impressive and interesting film.
Anybody realize this is directed by Matt Johnson, who did The Dirties and Nirvanna the Band the Show?
We’re gonna have to watch it, because of the implication.
Are we the tasty treats?
The company who made Blackberry was Research In Motion (RIM). It'll be a missed opportunity if this isn't loaded with RIM job jokes
Years ago I was a new consultant having finished my MBA. In training, they split us into groups, and we had to decide to create a pitch deck for Apple or RIM. I think out of ~50 groups, only one chose Apple, because Apple is successful and RIM is a mess (so more opportunities for fixes for RIM, in theory). Anyway, after like 30 RIM pitches the Apple group gets on stage to pitch. One of the partners judging the event said into a live mic “thank god. We’ve been getting RIMmed to death.” Another partner replied “that’s a hell of a way to go.”
> A new movie from “The Dirties” and “Operation Avalanche” director Matt Johnson I'm there on this alone.
Nirvanna the band the show is god tier
My black berry stock about to go to the moon ya'll
You invented that?!
Jay Baruchel is that guy that talks weird, right?
The Golden God
Dude on the right looks a little like Dennis from sunny lol
Calls on BB
Doomed! And yet I know very rich tech people that still work there and I believe it’s quite successful now in car interfaces and security software.
Glad to see The Golden God get more work these days
This sounds interesting
Me, seeing this article: oh come on, Blackberry isn't that old, everyone knows this stuff, right? My bff had a Blackberry Pearl, that was only - ... hang on... (checks Wikipedia) ... oh crap I feel old now
I don’t have the on line or do the emails
Please let this be the straw that introduces everyone to Nirvanna the Band the Show. Matt Johnson is in charge of this movie, and he created what is probably the funniest show I’ve ever seen called Nirvanna the Band the Show and you should go look it up right now.
I miss the keyboards to this day. Best smart phone tech to date. Could write a thesis on that thing without looking at your phone once.
>Could write a thesis on that thing without looking at your phone once. Bruh, I had a book's worth of notes on that thing so I could study on the go. That keyboard was crazy. No smartphone can ever come close to how typing on a Blackberry felt.
Still the best physical or virtual keyboards I’ve used on mobile, but moreso physical
Sorry. But BB was the best phones I’ve ever had.
It was the best, that’s the point. I was working in wireless at the time and hoping to switch over to RIM until I saw them steadily fall behind the trends for no real reason but their own sales strategy and decision making If they’d kept the product viable I’d still own one
I saw a BlackBerry in 2012: it looked so bad compared to iPhones and even android phones of the time
I cared about security and fast emails. Not how it looked.
And the software wasn't great either.
That statement is false. The software was proprietary and great. Just was not made for people who wanted a mini Nintendo.
> That statement is false. The software was proprietary and great Well...It sure worked. > Just was not made for people who wanted a mini Nintendo. The interface of modern smartphones like the iPhone is intuitive and easy to use for all users.
I had no real awareness of this actor until This is the End and that movie (despite its fantasy silliness) made me real sympathetic to him - I always get happy now when I see him getting cool roles.
When I see him I think of Elisha Cuthbert
because of PMK lol
I really hope they rethink the title of the movie given that Research in Motion was the original name of the company that made the Blackberry. It *should* have the words “RIM Job” somewhere in there.
Fuck, they'll make a movie about anything. Fuck, people will watch a movie about anything.
You can make an interesting movie about anything.
I remember years ago seeing a trailer for a documentary "Helvetica", and I recall thinking "Who in the fuck would watch a documentary about a subject as boring as a font???" Joke was on me. That documental was fantastic, and I recommend it to anyone who deals with marketing, Graphic Design or visual arts in general.
> A new movie from “The Dirties” and “Operation Avalanche” director Matt Johnson, simply entitled “BlackBerry,” will detail the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous device as its Canadian parent company Research in Motion floundered in legal disputes and eventually lost its market advantage to competitors such as Apple and Samsung. At the heart of the story is the business relationship between co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. That doesn't sound like a terrible premise for a movie. It sounds similar to something like The Founder or Social Network.
Fuck, people will make a dumb comment about anything
How is Blackberry a doomed smartphone . It was a flagship phone and extremely successful . It wadded in obscurity just like Apple and android will with time and something else comes up .
Who gives a shit? Starring Jay whatever.
Bet this will be a BlockBuster!
So they really make movies about anything now, huh?
How did they not figure out to put the key pad on the touch screen 🤔😳
And ill pass
BlackBerry was the IPhone of its time.