Originally Posted by
IanWood62 Alejandro Nova has come up with a great speculation that, to me, aligns with a number of other things that have been leaked. One of the items that comes to mind is the one about choosing which O/S to install when you first fire up the slider, or after you reset to factory state.
If a kernel was not already there, that type of interaction would not be possible.
As has been stated many times before, in other threads/discussions, QNX is the base kernel in millions of devices out there, especially many car "infotainment" systems.
QNX's long history, long before BlackBerry bought them, shows a wide versatility of their kernel.
As BB10 is built for running on top of QNX, and blackberry has provided the Android runtime as part of their OS, shows they know how to get it to run using the QNX kernel.
It makes sense to me for BlackBerry to provide this option to users. I've seen android folks say their app only runs if they have rooted the Android OS. Rooting is a security nightmare. It opens up the system to extreme abuse of privilege, which is what all these "escalation of privilege" vulnerabilities are. Locking a system down, as QNX does, so that root access is not accessible, helps to reduce, if not eliminate, that backdoor route.
As one who works for a company, and has to go through all these wonderful audits, here in the USA (i.e. SOX, PCI etc), eliminating that type of backdoor access to root privilege helps in improving the ecosystem.
If BlackBerry is doing this on the slider, then it would seem, to me, that this could be provided to all current BB10 owners, the same thing, as part of the next O/S upgrade.
Imagine the possibilities that it would then open up for BlackBerry!
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