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Re:Blackberry might switch to Android as OS by jarboot on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:02AM (#9703967)
If they use a heavily-modified, security-focused sort of android marketed toward corporations/government I wouldn't mind it too much. I just hope they don't end up having the same sort of android that every other phones seems to have nowadays.
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Re:Blackberry might switch to Android as OS by rvschuilenburg on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:03AM (#9704588)
This is IMO where they will be stuck if they do pursue this road: There's no way Google will allow the Play Store on such a heavily modified android (look at the Amazon Fire for example, with Amazon's custom Android).

So in the end they'll end up with an OS that can run Android apps, but doesn't support the Google ecosystem. But they already have that. It's called BBOS10 and has the Android runtime and the Amazon AppStore.

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