BlackBerry Won’t Make A Windows Phone Device

BlackBerry held onto its operating system for as long as it could but eventually it had to give up on it in a last ditch effort to survive in the market by finally adopting Android. BlackBerry Priv is the first Android-powered device from this company and it certainly isn’t the last. Now that the company has opened up to other platforms is it possible that it might make a Windows Phone handset as well? It’s not planning to do so anytime soon.

It really wouldn’t make any sense for BlackBerry to support Windows Phone anyway, the new iteration is actually called Windows 10 Mobile, the platform itself is struggling much like BlackBerry 10 so it really wouldn’t be wise of the company to burn its precious cash on a device that might not be able to perform well in the market.

Narendra Nayak, managing director for BlackBerry India, said that while the company’s enterprise software runs across Windows, iOS, BlackBerry and Android, on the device side it’s only going to offer BlackBerry OS and Android. iOS is obviously off the table since Apple doesn’t license its operating system to other manufacturers. “At this point we do not have any plans for a Windows Phone,” he reiterated.

Moving forward BlackBerry is more likely to focus on Android instead of its own operating system, that’s really the vibe that it’s putting out right now, and it just might be the best bet for a company that once dominated the market but struggles to compete against behemoths like Samsung and Apple.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Windows 10 Mobile