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Blackberry appears to be expanding its services into third-party mobile devices:
A little over a year ago the company launched BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android and iOS. Now the company is adding new features including support for BBM notifications on Android Wear smartwatches.
But BBM might just be the start of BlackBerry’s cross-platform offerings. This week the company unveiled something called the BlackBerry Experience Suite which could bring more apps and services to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices in the future.
The Experience Suite has three components: the Productivity Suite, Communication and Collaboration Suite, and Security Suite. BlackBerry says users will be able to purchase all three of those packs together or buy just the individual suites they want.
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday March 05 2015, @08:48PM
Well, BB couldn't have botched run-Android-apps-on-BB-OS any worse than they did. They created such a difficult process that even someone like me who wanted to do it gave up. If they had simply made it easy to get your Android apps running on BB OS, they'd have been much better off. Instead, they had this terrible virtual machine emulator thing I never got to work, and a crazy app signing and approval process that made me give up. My time was better spent doing anything else than dealing with their mess. So, yeah, if they'd just run stock Android and throw some of their software on it, they'd be much better off than what they've got now.
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