Goodbye to the phone that taught us to text with our thumbs.
that the phone was among the first to “introduce the tension that came with eroding the boundaries between home and the office.” They were among the first devices to signify phone addiction becoming a constant part of our lives. BlackBerries were so notoriously hard to put down they were nicknamedThe BlackBerry was also, of course, the phone that popularized the QWERTY keyboard that taught us all to type with our thumbs.
“The wars waged over BlackBerry use — in the movie theater, at the dinner table, during ballet recitals and T-ball games, while crossing the street — foreshadowed the endless tug-of-war for attention and presence that many face in the age of ubiquitous smartphones, social media and Slack,” writesOf course, it was the iPhone that ultimately killed the BlackBerry.
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