The BlackBerry Trap: Most People Don't Need Agents, and 'Office Agent' Storytelling May Repeat History
oran_ge · x · 2026-09-08
The author argues the 'general vs office agent' distinction is meaningless: agent demand overlaps heavily with office workers, and most people don't need agents at all — like BlackBerry telling a 'mobile office' story until the iPhone made the framing obsolete while killing BlackBerry.
Related event: Blogger Compares General Agents to BlackBerry's Fall(3 posts)→
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