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afterburner
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And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
Blackberry's were sought after by status hungry students and later by BBM-addicted students.
philwelch
on Oct 5, 2013
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Business students?
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Any university student, and later even high school students (as Blackberrys got cheaper as they started to be in bigger and bigger trouble).
ZeroGravitas
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In the UK it was ordinary kids who were emulating American rappers who were emulating businessmen (or so the story went).
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