End of an era: BlackBerry will stop making its own phones.

It’s the end of an era for BlackBerry. The company, famous for making cellphones with physical keyboards that were once so popular people nicknamed them Crackberries, has decided to stop making its own devices. BlackBerry said on Wednesday that it will rely on partners to manufacture the phones, which will still have BlackBerry’s look and feel. The company announced a joint venture with an Indonesian telecom company that will start making them. BlackBerry plans to turn its attention to software, a move it has made gradually in recent years as sales of its phones have slid.

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Wow, 10 years ago who would have thought there wouldn’t be BlackBerry or Nokia phones really… Looks like it’s an Apple/Samsung (Google) phone world and the devices and more that we use and use for apps for maker hardware and IoT apps will be iOS and Android and likely only on a small number of hardware maker phones (Apple/Google … Samsung).