Tencent Technology News May 29 news, the decline of BlackBerry business, so that more third-party developers, for the BlackBerry mobile application ecosystem has lost interest in participation. On the 28th, the Chinese chief executive of the BlackBerry, Cheng Shou-chung, took part in the first Code conference held by the Recode website. He said that the BlackBerry no longer has the power to build an independent application ecosystem.
Prior to this, BlackBerry pursued Apple's hardware and software integration strategy. Blackberry, through rewards and other means, widely attract third-party developers to develop applications for the "BlackBerry 10" operating system, but the developer's interest and platform user base and attractiveness are directly related. With the share of the BlackBerry stormy share plunge, third-party developers naturally choose "go for the project."
According to Recode website reported that Cheng Shouzong admitted that the BlackBerry may have no power, with iOS and Android systems for third-party developers.
Cheng Shouzon said that in the "key market," Blackberry will still fight for third-party developers to develop applications, but the state of BlackBerry today, there is no power to support a complete mobile Internet ecosystem. Cheng Shouzon did not mention "key markets" include which countries and regions.
This is the BlackBerry executives, for the first time recognized the efforts to build an independent APP ecosystem, failed.
US technology media pointed out that, for BlackBerry, the most logical step is fully compatible with the Android application software. In fact, most Android software, after a simple optimization, can run on BlackBerry 10 system-equipped smartphones.
Cheng Shou-chung also said in an interview recently that 98% of Android software can work normally on a BlackBerry.
In an interview with the host, Cheng Shouzon said he is leading BlackBerry back to his "roots," primarily for sectors such as the financial sector, government agencies and healthcare that are subject to rigorous regulation, producing mobile terminals and backend servers for these industries software.
Previously, Nokia, the other defeat handset maker, had transferred the handset business to Microsoft. Whether BlackBerry will follow Nokia, is also a topic of concern to the outside world. At the Code conference, Cheng Shouzon said that if BlackBerry retains its smartphone hardware business, he believes he can create greater shareholder value.
But he also said that if the smart phone business does not make money, he will not have "emotional ties" with the business, implying he would consider the transfer of a loss of mobile phone business.
When assuming the BlackBerry CEO, Cheng Shou-tsung has said that the possibility of saving the BlackBerry accounted for 50%. At the conference, Cheng Shouzong still compared the blackberry to a "patient" and said that the possibility of curing the blackberry has been raised to 80%. (Dawn)