Blackberry CEO John Chen announced that the company "plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners." BlackBerry's hardware business has been losing money for quite some time and this is just the final nail in the coffin, officially putting an end to an era. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled one-fifth of the phone market. Today, it holds a fraction of 1%. Now the Canadian company intends to focus primarily on providing security-focus software to manufacturers.

via Instagram Blackberry CEO John Chen announced that the company "plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners." BlackBerry's hardware business has been losing money for quite some time and this is just the final nail in the coffin, officially putting an end to an era. In 2009, BlackBerry controlled one-fifth of the phone market. Today, it holds a fraction of 1%. Now the Canadian company intends to focus primarily on providing security-focus software to manufacturers.