I get that Blackberry has been an industry joke for 6-7 years now, but the opening statement overstates their missteps. Blackberry missed many boats, but not the whole category of smartphones. Touchscreens, app stores, decent browsers...yes. But not smartphones.
Exactly. If anything, they invented the smartphone. But nobody knew about it until Apple made the iphone and decided that they had invented the smartphone.
and before cellular, AT&T rolled out their Mobile Telephone Service in St. Louis in 1946. They only had three telephone channels, so three people could simultaneously make a call in the city. It costs $15 a month ($180 a month in 2015 dollars) plus 30 cents a call.
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Nokia invented the smartphone. Learn your phone history.
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Qualcomm invented the cell phone.
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and before cellular, AT&T rolled out their Mobile Telephone Service in St. Louis in 1946. They only had three telephone channels, so three people could simultaneously make a call in the city. It costs $15 a month ($180 a month in 2015 dollars) plus 30 cents a call.
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I've never seen Apple claim to have invented the smartphone. You have a citation?
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So it's their fault?