![]() ![]() ![]() There are inspirations and lessons to be taken from the real RIM/BlackBerry story - the rise and the fall - and the people behind it. ![]() The Toronto tech CEO I spoke to after the screening was shocked when I told him it was all made up. Why does all this matter? It’s just a movie. I could go on - I didn’t think the real stories were boring but I’m not a movie writer. The creation story of the two-way pager/Blackberry is fictional, the naming story of the Blackberry is made-up, the scenes with Palm, the NHL and various customers are all dramatizations. The movie’s origin story of founders Doug Fregin and Mike Lazaridis coming together with Jim Balsillie isn’t true. I’m writing this to provide this necessary context from my personal lived experience with the company- my interpretation- because the founders I worked with and the employees I worked with were completely unrecognizable to me in this portrayal that paints them as incompetent tech nerds, diabolical villains and childish Canadian technology engineers incapable of competing at a global level.Īfter the screening I had an interesting moment when the CEO of a Toronto tech company in attendance said to me: “Wow, I didn’t know all those things about the company.” I realized that this retelling was going to become the new narrative about the company, and just couldn’t let that stand without comment. There’s even a disclaimer that it is a “fictionalization.” The problem with a fictionalization is that, without context, an audience has no way to figure out where the line between fact and fiction lies. Like many, I saw the trailer and was braced for some storytelling licence and exaggeration of characters and simplification of plot - it is a 20-year story told in two hours, after all. The director and writers seem to just have seen another story that they can spin into their style of “entertaining farce.” It’s tempting to speculate about the motivations of those funding and producing it but I will leave that to others. ![]() Why am I writing this? I’m not going to do a movie review, although the film is pretty fast and intense with a decent soundtrack. This movie, which is supposed to be loosely based on the book, will unfortunately be unrecognizable to those who lived the BlackBerry story and one that seems to go out of its way to diminish and tarnish the legacy of the founders and employees of one of Canada’s great technology stories. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.From within the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, users simply select the desired iTunes playlists and the music, including song information and album art, is quickly transferred onto their BlackBerry smartphone. The new BlackBerry Desktop Manager software allows Mac users to smoothly and seamlessly sync data from Mac applications like iCal®, Address Book, Microsoft® Entourage® and others, as well as add and remove applications, schedule automatic backups, encrypt backup files and install software updates for their BlackBerry smartphone.īlackBerry Desktop Manager Software also integrates BlackBerry Media Sync, enabling Mac users to sync their iTunes® music collections with their BlackBerry smartphone*. The new desktop software is scheduled to be available for free download from on Friday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m. A new version of the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager software has been developed specifically for Mac users. Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM, TSX: RIM) has exciting news for Mac® users that want an easy and reliable solution that syncs their contacts, calendar appointments, tasks and notes with their BlackBerry® smartphones. New software makes it easy to sync data between Mac applications and BlackBerry smartphones free download scheduled to be available on October 2 BlackBerry Desktop Manager software is designed to run on Mac computers with Mac OS 10.5.5 and higher and supports BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS 4.2 and higher. ![]()
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