BlackBerry's Survival Plan: the Internet of Things

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 8, 2015 @09:49AM from the a-new-basket-for-your-eggs dept.

jfruh writes BlackBerry's smartphone business is famously floundering, but the company isn't betting everything on its new retro physical-keyboard phones. It's also making moves into distributed, embedded, and asset-tracking computing for homes, cars, and businesses, which can all be lumped under the currently trendy "Internet of Things" buzzword umbrella. The company got a head start when it acquired the QNX OS in 2010, which was intended as the basis of a new smartphone OS but which already had credibility in the embedded market.

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Re:Can they do it? by alen · 2015-01-08 10:29 · Score: 3, Informative

ask apple
they went from a computer company to a mobile device company. MS is going all cloud. Amazon went from books to a huge cloud business. IBM doesn't make typewriters any more.
it's done all the time