Just Try Bending Our Phone, BlackBerry CEO Says in Apple Jab

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BlackBerry Ltd. couldn’t resist taking a jab at the world’s most popular phone.

Over the past seven years, Apple Inc.’s iPhone has wrested the smartphone market from BlackBerry, reducing the once-dominant device maker to less than 1 percent of global shipments as of March. Yet BlackBerry, introducing its new Passport device for business customers today, saw an opening emerge from user complaints that the newest iPhones get bent and warped in people’s pockets.