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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the BlackBerry the Number One Productivity Messaging Device?

There are two real opinion-based decisions that happen on the iPhone. Should we have a hard-board keyboard or should we have a virtual keyboard? The BlackBerry was the number one productivity messaging device of its time. So you wanted those tools to go away, but it wouldn't be as good as the hardware keyboard. And then that opinion based decision got turned into a data driven decision.

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