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If blackberry runs openbsd
Safe phone + safe OS, then it will not be sold now ?
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BlackBerry doesn't run OpenBSD, it runs QNX. They will not abandon QNX, because it is keeping the company profitable. I think 5 years from now they will have abandoned their hardware division since the real $ will come from licensing QNX for automobiles and medical devices.
It's a shame, of all the mobile operating systems remaining, BB10 is the most coherent and responsive. Sent from my BlackBerry Passport. |
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The Passport was kind of their last effort at a relevant flagship. I love it. Media reviews were quite positive, but the general public and carriers ignored it. Since then, their two newest phones, the Classic and Leap, are really just old internals (Q10 and Z30 respectively, both from 2013) with newer looking designs. This week, BBRY just laid off a lot of their hardware division. So if BlackBerry still exists in 5 years time, I expect the only thing you will see as an end-user, will be a brief BlackBerry logo as you switch your corporate Android phone from the personal profile to a locked-down "work" profile. I hope I'm wrong, as I believe there is still room for physical QWERTYs in the mobile space. Mods feel free to move this to Off-Topic. |
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Looks like it won't be OpenBSD after all.
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On the one hand, it smacks a bit of desperation. On the other, it could provide some badly needed incremental revenue to the handset division, and serve to promote their multi-platform security tools as mentioned in the article. |
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Modern version of QNX has borrowed a lot of stuff from NetBSD, including network stack, drivers and pkgsrc. Probably the closest to OpenBSD you can have there.
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Its not possible to create OpenBSD based phone without $$$$ even with current cash flow BB handling its difficult for them to manage it.
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The reason why blackberry OS failed, is because it had very few apps. The average user, is not security oriented, so that is why you see today, that Blackberry has embraced Android. The Priv is out, and the Vienna (codename) will be out soon. OpenBSD on Blackberry would be a huge failure I am afraid. I, however, love it.
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