The smartphone is the computer. And the death of Blackberry.

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The smartphone is the computer. Long-time readers know my commitment to this vision. 

The smartphone is the primary interface to the global web and the app is the primary interface to the smartphone.

This will remain so for at least this decade.

Late last night, I wrote what has since become a very popular post:

Blackberry ($RIMM) is worth less than the Apple App Store. Just the App Store. Not iPhone. Not iPad. Not Mac. Not iTunes.

As of this afternoon, RIM (Blackberry) has fallen even lower. It is now worth several hundred millions of dollars less than *just* Apple's App Store. Not Apple Stores. Not iPod. Not iTunes. Just the App Store.

Blackberry is not and was never designed to be an app phone. I can think of no more perfect, if tragic metaphor, than all of Blackberry being worth less than the App Store.

I take no joy in writing this.