“The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners,” CEO John Chen said in a statement. “This allows us to reduce capital requirements and enhance return on invested capital.”
It’s been a rough decade for BlackBerry.
I can’t bring myself to shed a tear. They produced a truly awful development/runtime environment for many years, and survived through a claim to privacy that turned out to be massively overstated.
And I’m a Canadian who wants to like Canadian companies.
Good riddance.
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the iPhone’s announcement 🙂
Not exactly news, since their most recent handset is just a rebranded piece of (sadly cheap-ass) Alcatel gear. This was water under the bridge three months ago.
Well, they held out much longer than I ever thought they would.