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Seems like a decent executive would have started a division running Android with Blackberry customizations a while back.
by kennystone 15y ago
Seems like a decent executive would have started a division running Android with Blackberry customizations a while back.
- jrockway 15y agoIt's a risky proposition. Blackberry is software. Buying other people's software and reselling it makes you an easy-to-eliminate middleman. HTC and Samsung like Android because they hate writing software (although not enough to stop doing it) and Android is much better than anything they could dream of making themselves. RIM, on the other hand, has already made pretty decent software. So it would be weird to throw all that away and start making low-margin hardware that competes with 100 other low-margin phones and tablets.
- kennystone 15y agoRIM has pretty deep enterprise integration compared to everyone else. Presumably they could leverage a lot of their existing software (on the backend - push, mail, messaging, etc) plus some great Android apps?