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D3C0D3R I hope you realize it would not be possible to replicate the BlackBerry10 UX on Android. The entire operating system would have to be rewritten, just using the Android Kernel. The only difference there would leave a buggy-*## phone, sacrifice security, and delay users getting new updates for months, possibly years.
Even if they somehow created a similar experience, it'd be slow to update. You see how Android 4.4 KitKat is still rolling out for some users because the companies had to customize the OS to work with their hardware and keep their extra features. 5.0 is going even slower because a huge amount of Android was rewritten and changed, dropping support for many old apps that used the previous compile-when-run method (I can't remember the actual name of that, started with a 'D' I think).
That would only be the start of the problems.
They would lose all business customers who had chosen them for their security, including governments and huge policy groups. Remember the BlackPhone? That "super-secure" Android? Yeah, it got hacked in what, 20 minutes? The entire integral security part of the phone would be compromised too, and that's not something patchable by just BlackBerry, the Android kernel would have to be modified and rewritten, something Google will not do.
Like I can just keep going as to why this would be an awful idea, but how would you counter just those statements?
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