What's behind BlackBerry's move to stop making smartphones

Shocked, shocked, I tell you!

That is what I would say, if I were actually surprised with the news that BlackBerry will no longer be making its own smartphones. The news has been expected for a while now, as BlackBerry has held an increasingly smaller share of the smartphone market over the last several years. So what is ahead for the company?

In IT Blogwatch, we look to the future.

What exactly is going on? Zach Epstein has the background:

The death march of BlackBerry’s handset business was closely chronicled...it failed to pivot when Apple’s iPhone changed the smartphone market, and now those early missteps have finally led to today. As BlackBerry reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of $372 million on Wednesday...the company confirmed that it will cease all internal smartphone development and stop making smartphones.

So what does that mean for BlackBerry? Alastair Sharp fills in the blanks:

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