One of the tech gurus was on the radio last week talking about the rise and fall of that mighty giant, BlackBerry. Do you remember the BlackBerry? It straddled the smartphone market like a colossus, a mere eight years ago. It was just like the ANC, really. It dominated the market. No-one thought it could fail. It could do no wrong. Market share? It hogged everything.Yet things change. The smart young bucks call it disruption. Us old geezers call it adapt or die. BlackBerry failed to adapt.When the iPhone first came out, former BlackBerry co-CEO Mike Lazaridis scoffed at it."He thought it was a toy. He derided its poor battery life and balked at the idea that anyone would want to type on glass when BlackBerrys offered full QWERTY keyboards," wrote Eric Ziman on the InformationWeek website. Lazaridis was dead wrong, though. Show me a professional using a BlackBerry today and I will point you to the nearest museum.The BlackBerry story really does remind me of the trajectory of the ANC....
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