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Yeah, but Blackberry - that old, stodgy enterprise phone your dad uses - has the best image of all phones in street culture.

We touched on this in another HN thread recently, but back home in the UK there is even a popular garage track called "Blackberry Hype":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omehnInidjA&feature=playe...

The full lyrics diss-out the iPhone because to them it's all about Blackberry - you wanna tell them they're wrong? ;)

I think as technologists we can pontificate that Apple (usually) imperically has the best hardware and software, but that's not how image and culture decide what is best.



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