BlackBerry global smartphone market share

BlackBerry's global smartphone share collapsing as American casino revenue grew. Two completely unrelated stories of the late 2000s and 2010s: one a smartphone leader losing the entire premise of its product, one a state-level gambling industry quietly expanding its footprint.

BlackBerry's global smartphone market share collapsed from about 20 percent in 2007 to under 1 percent by 2016 as iPhone and Android replaced the QWERTY-keyboard default. US commercial casino gambling revenue grew from about 32 billion dollars in 2007 to over 40 billion by 2016 as states expanded gaming and tribal-state compacts widened the legal market. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same nine years saw one corporate paradigm collapse and one state-level industry compound.

Different industries, opposite fates. Some incumbents lost; some markets just kept expanding.