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09-28-2016, 07:51 PM
BlackBerry gives up on building phones
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It's the end of an era: Canada's BlackBerry has an**unced it will stop building hardware altogether, focusing instead on its software and services business.*
"The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners," Blackberry CEO John Chen said in the company's latest financial statement (http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/blackberry-reports-89-year-over-year-growth-gaap-software-services-revenue-q2-fiscal-nasdaq-bbry-2162080.htm).
SEE ALSO: BlackBerry is back at it again with a mediocre phone (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/blackberry-dtek50-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
BlackBerry's latest phone, the DTEK50 (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/blackberry-dtek50-review/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), was, in fact, built by Alcatel, and with ** new BlackBerry phones on the horizon, the move wasn't hard to predict. But if it's **t going to build phones, what will BlackBerry do? Software, mostly. And according to Chen, the strategy is already working. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/blackberry-gives-up/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It's the end of an era: Canada's BlackBerry has an**unced it will stop building hardware altogether, focusing instead on its software and services business.*
"The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners," Blackberry CEO John Chen said in the company's latest financial statement (http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/blackberry-reports-89-year-over-year-growth-gaap-software-services-revenue-q2-fiscal-nasdaq-bbry-2162080.htm).
SEE ALSO: BlackBerry is back at it again with a mediocre phone (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/blackberry-dtek50-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
BlackBerry's latest phone, the DTEK50 (http://mashable.com/2016/09/25/blackberry-dtek50-review/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), was, in fact, built by Alcatel, and with ** new BlackBerry phones on the horizon, the move wasn't hard to predict. But if it's **t going to build phones, what will BlackBerry do? Software, mostly. And according to Chen, the strategy is already working. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/blackberry-gives-up/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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