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Blackberry Town by Chuck Howitt
With the dominance of Apple and Google on the mobile phone market in the last decade, I feel puzzled and sorry for the two earlier leaders in the space – BlackBerry and Nokia. Both were dominating mobile giants and not from the USA. BlackBerry was from Canada, a country I have travelled to briefly on a weekend trip to Vancouver from Seattle. Even today in tech circles I hear people talking with high regards for the technology chops of BB. As a result, I always wondered where the company stumbled and this book “BlackBerry Town” by Chuck Howitt will shed some light to it. As I started reading the book…
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Kim’s Convenience (TV series)
For the last two weeks, I binge-watched two seasons of Kim’s Convenience (TV Series). It is a Canadian Television sitcom based on a successful stage play by the same name, written by Ins Choi and was a welcome relief from the usual American comedy. The show is about a Korean Canadian Family (Parents, a son, and a daughter) running a corner store in the Moss Park area of Toronto, Canada. The show is enjoyable with clean comedy, little cliche immigrant jokes and kids’ nice visuals. Each episode of 25-30 minutes is about what happens in the store, the ego between “Appa” (Dad) and his estranged son (Jung), the power politics…
