BlackBerry OS devices have finally run out of juice

davidwarni January 3, 2022 2 min read

It very well might be difficult to envision that anybody is as yet utilizing a BlackBerry gadget running one of the Canadian organization’s working frameworks, however it is without a doubt evident – albeit not really for significantly longer. BlackBerry has quite recently reported that BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS gadget inheritance administrations will stop working later January 4, 2022 and has said thanks to its “numerous devoted clients and accomplices throughout the long term” simultaneously. Right now, the organization says gadgets running BlackBerry 7.1 OS and prior, BlackBerry 10 programming and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and prior renditions will stop to work dependably. This will affect information administrations, calls, SMS and 9-1-1 usefulness.

How Did it Come to This?

BlackBerry’s ascent and fall has been very much recorded in the years since it sold its last BlackBerry Leap. Like the whole cell phone industry at that point, it was totally walloped by the send off of the iPhone in 2007. Somewhere around one BlackBerry engineer at the time conceded the organization didn’t really accept that that a gadget like the main iPhone was even conceivable with the innovation accessible at that point. To them, a gadget like the iPhone with its enormous (for the time) 3.5-inch show and modern working framework was something like five years away.

At first, then, at that point, RIM (BlackBerry) CEO Jim Balsillie disregarded the danger of the iPhone saying at that point, “We know where we are going… We have all the development we can deal with.” [Sydney Morning Herald]. Nonetheless, it was just a short time later Balsillie offered these comments that BlackBerry sold its last gadget.

The ascent and fall of BlackBerry has turned into a business college contextual analysis in exactly how rapidly an organization which controlled a market section can be overturned by a problematic new innovation — combined with an entirely insufficient administration reaction. It’s consistently tragic to see a once notable brand and group of gadgets go to tidy. In any case, generally beneficial things, as is commonly said, should reach a conclusion.