What if the iPhone Launch Was a Discord Group Chat? 💀

2007: Nokia owns half the smartphone market, BlackBerry has a REAL keyboard, and Microsoft says the iPhone has "no chance." Then Apple joins the server. 📱 Every phone company in one group chat — from Macworld 2007 to the end of BlackBerry phones in 2016. The dates, deals and quotes are real. The jokes are ours. 0:00 Apple joins the chat (Macworld 2007) 0:37 BlackBerry: "one more entrant" 0:46 Microsoft: "No chance" 1:02 Launch day & the first million 1:24 Q4 2007: the market share pin 1:38 The App Store & Android 1:57 Palm leaves for HP 2:09 Nokia's burning platform & Google buys Motorola 2:24 Microsoft buys Nokia, Lenovo buys Motorola 2:40 The $7.6 billion write-down 2:54 BlackBerry's last keyboard 3:05 Where are they now Which company should we roast next? Drop it in the comments 👇 Subscribe for more business history as a group chat. Sources: Reuters, USA Today, CNBC, Canalys, Gartner, TechCrunch, Microsoft SEC filing (July 2015). — Comedy and parody. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple, Nokia, BlackBerry, Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Palm, HP, Lenovo, AT&T or any other company mentioned. Characters are parody illustrations, not official logos. The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. Music: "Sneaky Adventure" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #iPhone #TechHistory #GroupChat