Dinosaurs watching a giant meteor streaking across the sky with puzzled curiosity...

Fun fact, the Co-Founder of Blackberry who Matt Johnson plays in the movie sold all his shares in the company after the announcement. He knew.

"I need a prototype of the bold in my hand by Friday With a WORKING track-pad" the game is already over with that sentence alone

I worked at Nokia at the time...and leadership mocked the iPhone as "just another iPod".

Jay Baruchel looks like a 28 year old with a grey spray-paint-job on his hair

A family member was a very early employee of Blackberry/RIM in Waterloo and was an “elite” CSR when the iPhone first came out. I had lunch with her when my iPhone 3G was brand new. She’d never seen one. She used it quietly for a few minutes, typing, surfing websites, looking at email. She handed it back and said “I think we’re in trouble.” Yup.

Everyone in that room knew what that phone was going to do to Blackberry except the CEO.

I remember watching the Steve Jobs announcement Live in 2007.  Here's a strange historical tidbit that I recall.  About 6 months earlier, the Verizon CEO was being interviewed.  (Back then the Carrier was #1 and the phone was #2 (i.e. You would choose to have Verizon as your carrier, and they would offer some compatible handsets to choose from)).  On CNBC, they asked the Verizon CEO, "What are some innovations you expect in the upcoming year.  He said, "We've worked out a deal with the RIAA, so that we can upsell people with 'Custom Ringtones' (eg- You pay $5 for your favorite song to ring when someone calls you) . . . I thought, "That's their BIG innovation?  Custom ringtones for $5? . . . Well, 6 months later Apple wiped out their entire business model.

Why would anybody want an iPhone when you can have a working trackpad?!

Before iPhone if you were looking at a photo and wanted to see it in landscape, you had to press the arrow keys to go to the menu>view>orientation and click landscape.

In iPhone you just turned your phone.

That's one of many innovations that demonstrates a developer that cared about the user experience.

Jobs just bent BlackBerry over and didn’t even use lube

I was at Microsoft when this happened, and I remember Steve Balmer telling us that no serious business user would give up their keyboard.  What he and so many others didn't realize is that people were desperate to do exactly that.

Well the CEO‘s reaction is like riding on a horse carriage watching the introduction of the first car and telling the people to bring more horses and paint the carriage red.

IIRC the top brass at BlackBerry thought the footage of the iPhone was faked. They couldn’t believe Apple got that level of performance and functionality on a portable device

Doug Fregin the guy depicted with glasses and the red bandanna who is also depicted as being useless sold his shares shortly after, making him the wealthiest benefactor in the end. 😂

"Why would anyone want a phone without a keyboard?" sums up BlackBerrys demise in one sentence. Change will happen, with our with out you.

Killed the company right there.

He needed to say "Hold off on release, we're getting that touch screen tech on our own phone"

The first iPhone was the shot across the bow of every other manufacturer. The introduction of the App Store that bypassed carriers is what really sank BlackBerry, Nokia, etc. For a 30% fee, billing and fulfillment was handled for every iPhone in the world on any carrier. No carrier by carrier negotiations, no 70% carrier fee, no building fulfillment and billing infrastructure. Even better, no carrier by carrier API variations, it was the same OS and screen size everywhere.

Bahahaha. What a great scene. When everyone working at BlackBerry realizes their product is suddenly garbage.

They so proud on the keyboard and messaging system. They ignored everything else.