BlackBerry, inventor of the smartphone, stops making them
It's the formalisation of a move in the making since chief executive officer John Chen took over nearly three years ago and outsourced some manufacturing to Foxconn Technology Group.Aaron HarrisGerrit De Vynck by It's official.BlackBerry, the Canadian company that invented the smartphone and addicted legions of road warriors to the "CrackBerry" has stopped making its iconic handsets.Finally conceding defeat in a battle lost long ago to Apple and Samsung, BlackBerry is handing over production of the phones to overseas partners and turning its full attention to the more profitable and growing software business.
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BlackBerry Ltd stops making money-losing smartphones to focus on software services
WATERLOO, Ont.— BlackBerry Ltd. will stop developing hardware internally and double down on its new identity as a software company.The move marks the end of smartphones designed by the Waterloo, Ont.company that started a global phenomenon as the first to put email in peoples' pockets.
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