Originally published in DailyWealth on August 21, 2025. DailyWealth re-ran it on April 8, 2026, as "Perfection Is a Sell Signal in the Age of AI."
BlackBerry perfected mobile email, and then the iPhone made the whole category irrelevant. When a product flawlessly solves yesterday's problem, that's often a warning sign, not a strength.
I call it the BlackBerry test: separate the companies polishing old solutions from the ones making the problem disappear. AI is about to run that test on a lot of industries.