Before Apple’s iPhone came out in 2007, the smartphone market was in fact dominated by BlackBerry. One of its chief features was the familiar tactile keyboard that sat underneath the screen until BlackBerry decided in 2013 to take its phones in a new direction more traversed by its contemporaries and created a phone dominated entirely by a touch screen. Sales didn’t improve.
On June 11, 2015, we learned from Reuters that the failing company may be choosing to run Android in future models. This raises many questions about the company’s fate and whether this was the right decision to make. Is Android the ideal operating system for BlackBerryphones?
