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ISSN 1188-7494 The Literary Review of Canada is indexed in the Canadian Literary Periodicals Index and the Canadian Index and is distributed by Disticor and Magazines an Ontario government agency Canada. un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario July/August 2015 reviewcanada.ca 1 Autocorrect Off Where BlackBerry’s founders went wrong. JOSHUA GANS Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff HarperCollins 290 pages, hardcover ISBN 9781443436182 owned a BlackBerry during 2007. I loved it. Having finally realized that the phone was Inot the thing—email was—I wanted to be con- nected all the time. It was not pretty but it worked. It kept my contacts, my calendar and a few other things. I customized the alerts to make a simple Star Trek beep when notifications came in. And, like one of Pavlov’s dogs, I would bring it out whenever it chirped. Then came the iPhone. My BlackBerry was quickly discarded and I had a new object of love. Indeed, I did not give that whole episode much emotional reflection until I read Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. The book made me realize what I, personally, and so many others owe BlackBerry. BlackBerry, or as it was known throughout most of its history, Research in Motion (RIM for short), pioneered the mobile data revolu- tion and, in the process, changed how pretty much everyone interacted with information technology and the internet. The book advertises itself as the story of BlackBerry, but it is really the story of RIM’s long- time co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.