I own an iPhone.
I’m so used to it, I literally couldn’t imagine having any other phone. Occasionally a friend whips out an Android phone and I immediately think: “That looks so ugly.”
This is not so much a reflection of taste, as Apple’s complete victory over the smartphone market. They have created a product so perfect — with it’s own iconic open-user application marketplace to boot — that it feels wrong for people like me to even contemplate owning another phone.
There was a time before the iPhone though. In the larger history of the smartphone wars, Apple were actually a rather late entry. There was a time when the biggest smartphone in the world was the BlackBerry. Remember those?
I remember them well. There was a time at school when every cool girl had one. There was the stereotypical image of the businessman checking his emails in bed, rudely ignoring his wife in the process. There was the time when having a Blackberry denoted that you were somebody who meant serious business.
Canadian Actor-Director Matt Johnson certainly remembers the Blackberry (2023) too. He gives it the rise-and-fall tech story treatment that we’ve seen recently personified in various streaming TV shows such as The Dropout (Elizabeth Meriwether, 2022) and WeCrashed (Lee Eisenberg & Drew Crevello, 2022).
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