The title of this blog seems to me pretty clear, normally the answer to this question is just as simple; No. There are so many manufacturers who try to break through in the smartphone market, why it would not work them all and BlackBerry do? However I do see opportunities for BlackBerry, not as a leader or the second or the third position, but just as stable central motor with a complete private audience. BlackBerry would like Android manufacturers still sometimes really can go kick far in the business market and among users that are very privacy-conscious.
BlackBerry in recent years has been complete see market share evaporate. The company was once a leader in the field of smartphones, after the company was nearly bankrupt, the company knows both sides of the coin. Still, BlackBerry still exists and it owes it through just in time to focus again on the development of enterprise software and services and the battle in the smartphone market to let go.
It has the company have done a lot of pain because the company had to cut deeply into its own ranks to survive. Worldwide shut down its offices, there are a lot of employees laid off and had to cut the company. BlackBerry still has to work hard to survive, but the future looks a little better off. However, there will be another exciting period for the manufacturer, the fact should the Android Market.
Although BlackBerry currently has indicated that its own BlackBerry operating system simply continues to exist and its development just continues this is a bit of a losing battle. The user has opted for Android and iOS, and if you do have to intervene with a proprietary operating system to get good homes. Microsoft will soon try it again with Windows 10 Mobile, Samsung doubt only in certain countries with Tizen smartphone. Microsoft and Samsung, however, are able to pump in billions of euros there, in the BlackBerry purse is pretty empty.
The Canadian company does not now, but the future of the company’s Android. The rescue but also the largest issue of BlackBerry is that Android is an open source operating system. In recent months and weeks, it became clear that time and again huge vulnerabilities are found in Android. By abuse of these vulnerabilities to take over the equipment, to intercept the data on the devices and see in. That is for a normal user already anything but desirable, for the customers who have BlackBerry still is catastrophic.
BlackBerry is because for years the expert in the field of secure smart phones. The techniques that BlackBerry has developed its software and enterprise products to secure the appliances to encrypt the data and to ensure privacy is the best in the market. BlackBerry smartphones have been adopted by most governments for use in highly sensitive departments. Therefore you see at a lot of governments and companies that work with sensitive data still BlackBerry phones.
BlackBerry has in recent years been working to create software and enteprisediensten suitable for Android. BlackBerry will soon release its first Android smartphone, the BlackBerry Priv (abbreviated for privacy or Private), of which much depends BlackBerry device. The question is whether the BlackBerry is able to build an Android smartphone where all the security of the company is and which is therefore less sensitive to all Android vulnerabilities.
If it is successful, the BlackBerry still has a serious chance to become a mid-engine in the smartphone market with its own target audience. Companies and individuals that security and privacy are very important. BlackBerry there is also quietly some more money to ask as a truly secure Android smartphone still waiting for it.
Samsung does a good attempt with Knox and has a part of that technology with Google shared in order to ensure that Android is a lot safer in the base. Knox is also in itself a very safe environment, but the problem with Knox is a bit that they are still on top of the normal Android environment runs and separated from them.
Part of the BlackBerry technology also comes match Knox, such as verifying the Boot ROM, but BlackBerry goes a few steps further. The Android operating system is controlled by a Secure Boot Chain, the operating system is fully encrypted on the BlackBerry Priv, something that Google now wants to go with Android 6.0 oblige, but BlackBerry makes it a big part of the system also only readable and not writable, this malware can not modify. Finally, the BlackBerry Priv will also monitor the applications being launched or that correspond to the original app using hashes.
These are the security measures which shared BlackBerry to date, there are possibly more the company has not shared. The purpose of BlackBerry is in any case to make the Android system more secure and not to build another system to the Android system which is protected as with Knox. Big question is how safe this system is going to be, only time will tell the time. Also, we are very curious how quickly or how often BlackBerry updates will release for Android devices.
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