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Linked List: July 6, 2016
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
- Android Police: ‘Google Is Building Two Android Wear Smartwatches With Google Assistant Integration’ ★
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Easy to forget that Android watches are even a thing.
- BlackBerry to Discontinue Traditional Keyboard Phone ★
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Ian Austen, reporting for the NYT:
The struggling Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry made a sharp detour from its history on Tuesday when it announced it was discontinuing the last phone to have the traditional version of the company’s iconic physical keyboard and trackpad.
Then-CEO Mike Lazaridis, in May 2008:
“The most exciting mobile trend is full qwerty keyboards. I’m sorry, it really is. I’m not making this up.”
“I couldn’t type on it and I still can’t type on it, and a lot of my friends can’t type on it,” says Mike Lazaridis, R.I.M.’s co-chief executive and technological visionary. “It’s hard to type on a piece of glass.”