With BlackBerry falling apart day-by-day, fans have never been more eager to reminisce on the pioneering smartphone makers rise. While its easy to forget the celebrity that the BlackBerry brand once held, Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with a number of old employees — most having worked there when it was still named RIM — who remember it well. There wasn’t a meeting I couldn’t get, Vincent Washington, a BlackBerry business development manager with the company between 2001 and 2011, tells Businessweek. At launches in Jamaica and Trinidad, BlackBerry owners were reportedly invited to discos where they could get temporary tattoos that, when scanned, revealed their BBM PIN.
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