Web News: Why AI Phones Might Fail Like BlackBerry
From HTML All The Things - Web Development, AI, and Developer Careers by Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan
May 2, 2026 · 30 min · Episode 474
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges OpenAI may face in entering the smartphone market with its AI phone, drawing parallels to the failure of BlackBerry.
OpenAI is reportedly building an AI phone - but history shows just how hard it is to break into the smartphone market. Could this be the next BlackBerry?
People in this episode
Hosts: Matt Lawrence, Mike Karan
Topics covered
- AI technology
- smartphone market
- BlackBerry history
- OpenAI
- technology news
Keywords
- AI phone
- OpenAI
- BlackBerry
- smartphone market
- technology news
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI
Products: AI phone, BlackBerry
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