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Best: Losing half a cross-platform messaging network destroys 95% of users

“And if you're a messaging app, and your big drive is your half on Blackberry and half on iPhone, if you lose half your users, you don't actually lose half your users, you lose like, 95% of your users.”

Chris Best May 12, 2025 ▶ 10:17 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

Assertion Supported

Grant: BlackBerry made only one product when valued over $70B

“It is insane to me that when they were valued at over seventy billion dollars, they still only made one product. They just had a bunch of variations on the Blackberry, which is a great way to, you know, to persist into obsolescence.”

Adam Grant Aug 19, 2021 ▶ 17:32 Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant

Assertion Not checkable as stated

OtterBox received its first $1M purchase order from AT&T for BlackBerries

“I remember getting our first million dollar PO from AT&T. For the BlackBerry.”

Curt Richardson Dec 2, 2019 ▶ 30:45 Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson

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