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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by goosedragons on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:19PM (#31137487)
There doesn't seem to be. Hell BB10 was basically what you describe and IIRC had a layer to let let devs submit Android apps into the Blackberry World from day one. It wasn't enough and devs couldn't even be bothered to do that. Later they partnered with Amazon and added the Amazon App Store and let users add their own Android apps. Still wasn't enough. It was a great phone OS and hands down was the best at email/messaging. Maybe a true FOSS community effort could carve out more of niche with this though.

Even Microsoft couldn't make it work with barrels of cash. Granted they did make some huge mis-steps.

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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by ghaff on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:26PM (#31137572)
You can probably make the case for it being a triopoly today had Microsoft done some things differently. But that's different from saying that Microsoft could realistically start down the mobile phone path again today. You can be sure if they thought they had any realistic hope of making it, they would try.
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Re:Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years by officeplant on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:15PM (#31139621)
Blackberry's android application sideloading made it one hell of a killer smartphone. I had a Q5 as a work phone for a while and it was great to still have so many apps I was used to from android. The killing blow was everything moving to needing play services just to function.
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