On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 11:01, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> On 2020-05-10 10:05 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > Blackberry == QNX these days > > Didn't they move to Android a few years back, at least for some models? > Yep. In 2016, they contracted out building of phones to TCL. https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/28/13088362/blackberry-stop-making-phones (I always somewhat double-take when I see anything branded TCL, for the obvious reason!) The deal with TCL ends this August, so it's not evident that they'll have any hardware offerings anymore. The Playbook was interesting in this regard; the kernel was QNX, but it had an Android layer, and that would have been an interesting take on "doing Android" in the marketplace; I don't think that strategy made it to any of the phone offerings. I'm wrong on that, it turns out; "Blackberry 10" was indeed QNX underneath... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10 There were around a dozen phones released (some not actually released) on "Blackberry 10" between 2013 and 2015, and later editions did indeed have an Android "runtime" to allow running some Android apps. So I suppose we could say it's both a dessert wax, and a floor topping ;-) -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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