challenge accepted? blackberry movie LETS GOOO
okay so
theres this guy
i think his names mike
i cant remember
he makes this company called RIM (research in motion)
but he has this communicator
that is revolutionary
its called the pocketlink
but noone on his team is marketing
theyre all engineers
so they go to this guy jim
who quits his job to go work for him
now they have a killer product and a fantastic marketer
so they go to at&t and pitch it
at&t laughs at them and says it wont work
mike says it will work with 500k devices at a time
at&t says 10
so mike explains how the 500 000 devices will work
and at&t gets a contract with RIM (mike's company)
to buy a crazy amount of pocket links
but pocket link is not a good name
so when jim (whos pitching it) is asked for the name of the product can't think of a response
he looks over at mike's blackberry stained shirt and says
BlackBerry
right
so
blackberry are doing fantastic
selling hundreds of thousands of units
got their own messaging program that is free
while sms was costing 20c per message
theyre flourishing
media loves them. even obama gets one
but THEN
they reached the device cap
500 000 units on the network
so they go to google, motorola , ericsson
and they poach their top network engineers
and pay them in stock (this is relevant later)
so they get to work
and they increase the bandwidth from 500 000 across all networks to 2 000 000 for each network (6 000 000 total)
blackberry is booming
theyve got customers all over the world
its a status symbol
its the most premium thing you can fit into your hand
right
then comes 2007.
macworld
steve jobs
i think we both know what happens next
the iphone comes
all the major execs (like mike, steve ball(s) mer from microsoft and others) say its gonna flop within a year
but it doesnt
blackberry's next phone sells horribly
the iphone has all their numbers
and then the SEC comes in
and investigates blackberry for fraud
because that stock that it gave to the employees?
there was no stock evaluated at that much at that time
jim is sent to court and arrested (tho he gets out on a loophole and serves no jail time)
and mike is broke
and now instead of blackberries and everything else we have iphones and smasnugs and everything else
:3
huh, that is very :3 indeed. pocketlinks wouldve been a sick ass name though, but he changed it to blackberry? justifiable to lock up the guy who changed that last minute