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Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Here’s our 2012 deep dive into Blackberry’s downfall.

The Research in Motion story is back in the news because of the (great-looking!) Blackberry movie that’s set to hit on May 12th — and we covered the story intensely during our early years when it wasn’t a guarantee that the iPhone and Android would come to dominate the smartphone market. Here’s our deep-dive feature from back then, which holds up. (Apart from the layout being a little broken. Apologies — it has been a long decade for legacy web pages.)

Dan Seifert
Dan Seifert
Here’s how excited I am to see the BlackBerry movie.

Seriously, it looks great.

Former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie was very excited for the Playbook, a tablet you either never heard of or forgot about at least a decade ago.
Former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie was very excited for the Playbook, a tablet you either never heard of or forgot about at least a decade ago.
Photo: Aly Song / Reuters