Ode to my Blackberry
Cory Bergman July 13th, 2008
Blackberry, today I leave you for a sexier, faster device. Her name? Well, it’s iPhone.
We had so many great times together. You brought email to my hip, day and night. On weekends. Even on vacation in Hawaii. You merged work with home like never before. Now, thanks to you, my life will never be the same.
Neither will my right thumb. All that email and that damn Brick Breaker game (high score 23,635), and some days my thumb feels like it’s going to fall off. I thumb my way through email at parties. In the bathroom. At stoplights! I have a thumb of a 90-year-old man.
Sometimes I love you, Blackberry. Other times I burn with rage. Like the time I skipped you off the sidewalk like flat rock at the lake. Because you froze up like a Bill Gates keynote. But you were invincible. You refused to give up.
I’m sorry I never switched to the slimmer Curve with the thumb-friendly trackball. Because I knew she was coming. I knew I could wait for her. And now she’s here with her silky smooth screen. (Well, technically, not quite. Apparently her father, Steve, didn’t think it was prudent to send enough of her to Seattle, the land of one million geeks. WTF!!!) But anyway, this is goodbye, Blackberry. Thanks for the memories.
11 Comments Add your own
1. Contrarian | July 14th, 2008 at 4:41 am
“We had so many great times together. You brought email to my hip, day and night. On weekends. Even on vacation in Hawaii. You merged work with home like never before. Now, thanks to you, my life will never be the same.”
I feel badly for you. When I’m off work, I’m off work. With my family. Not attched to an electronic leash. Someday, you may realize that work is not the point fo your life and get rid of the gadget entirely.
2. Contrarian | July 14th, 2008 at 5:33 am
itunes is the PC of the mobile phones, blackberry is the mac. Can you even copy and paste yet in the iphone?
You should be waiting for the blackberry thunder, touch screen and will be 100 times better then iphone …
3. Hussman | July 14th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Hmmm… I just have a cell phone. I feel so 2004
4. Gorman | July 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Did you pour a 40 of Starbucks?
5. Anonymous | July 14th, 2008 at 10:20 am
1959 Pioneer actually sounds better than 1969.
6. baker | July 14th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
after much deliberation, i’m waiting for the Blackberry Bold and just upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0 this weekend. that’s my final answer, not that you asked.
7. tim | July 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
you’ll be back to the blackberry, dont worry
8. david johnson | July 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
nice one, dude. nice one.
9. David Johnson | July 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
what bums me is that none of them work with QIK.com.
but a nice ode, LRBard.
10. Anonymous | July 21st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
HE’LL recover but the empty, yearning spot in his wallet won’t forget.
11. Fommy | August 13th, 2008 at 8:34 am
i am waiting Blackberry Bold.
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