Phones, PDAs, and smartwatches that set the pace for mobility—then ceded it.

• BlackBerry legacy OS phones

  Legacy BlackBerry OS/BB10 devices discontinued; handset business exited and brand later licensed to third parties on Android.

  1999–2016 🏷️ Mobile & Wearables

• Palm

  Palm defined the PDA and helped shape the modern smartphone, but it lost when hardware became an ecosystem business instead of a device bus…

  1992–2011 🏷️ Mobile & Wearables

• Pebble

  A smartwatch that broke Kickstarter records in 2012 with a week-long battery and e-paper display, acquired by Fitbit for an estimated $30–4…

  2012–2016 🏷️ Mobile & Wearables