BlackBerry (finally) says it's done making smartphones

BlackBerry today filed its fiscal second quarter 2017 financials, and with the earnings came definitive news that the Canadian company, which very much sparked the modern smartphone market, will cease developing and making its own smartphone hardware.The news feels like it has been a long time coming, but is still momentous given the role BlackBerry once played in the mobile device world — and the long, slow fall from its heyday in the late 2000s. To read this article in full or to le