👋 Had one of the largest BlackBerry blogs and worked directly with BlackBerry

I'm convinced that, while at the time the iPhone was a technological break-through for an all-touch consumer-grade candybar style phone, it was predominantly pushed by the US government in order to consolidate their control over technology products.

Notice how foreign companies like BlackBerry were not on the leaked slides from Snowden? Apple and Google were...

QNX was amazing and so was how they used it to create BB10, the first RTOS for mobile. Their SDK for porting apps was very easy too. I wss part of the BB10 dev evangelist program. Yet, for some reason most app devs ignored it. Very strange, considering how easy it was to port their apps.

Of course, there were also plenty of internal decisions that played a role on BB's demise in the phone market, but I believe it was also partially influenced by governments who didn't like its encryption-by-default.