On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:08:17AM +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > On the other hand, even if sales are doubling, that doesn't mean you > aren't dying. Consider Blackberry, whose sales rocketed up even after > the iPhone was first introduced in 2007: > > https://www.recode.net/2017/2/26/14742598/blackberry-sales-market-share-chart > > Then, all of a sudden, people realized, "Why are we buying these > old-fashioned keyboard smartphones?"
FWIW, my wife hated the touchphones and clung on to her Blackberry keyboard for as long as she could. Now she has an iphone (grudgingly) and slowly getting the hang of it, but still complains that touch typing is annoying. History is a cruel master. T -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares? -- Erich Schubert