BlackBerry stops making hardware, but BlackBerry phones live on

BlackBerry is getting out of the hardware business, but this isn’t the end of BlackBerry phones—or at least not yet.
As part of its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, the company announced that it would soon end all hardware development. Instead, BlackBerry phone production and design will be outsourced to third parties.
“We are focusing on software development, including security and applications. The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsourc