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05-27-2015, 04:20 PM
If there’s one advantage Apple didn’t have when it released the iPhone, it was a head start.-Years before the idea for the iPhone even crossed Steve Jobs’ mind, BlackBerry devices were absolutely killing it in the marketplace. Even Microsoft, which tends to get laughed at for missing important trends in the tech space, had been working on various Windows Mobile devices going all the way back to 2000. DON’T MISS:-Watch a crazy iOS bug cause iPhones to crash just by receiving a text message While it’s easy and perhaps simple to attribute BlackBerry’s demise and Microsoft’s string of failures in the mobile space to the fact that neither company came up with the idea for an iPhone-like device themselves, that

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