Blackberry VS windows phone: Microsoft to merge all Windows platforms to one
At 22 july, business insiders published an article declaring that "[Microsoft] is going to merge all of its major versions of Windows into one huge Windows platform.
Microsoft had been inching up to this for a while. At its developers conference in April, the company announced developer tools for ""Universal Windows Apps".
(Read more: Nadella Merges Windows Phone, Windows - Business Insider)
Now this, if pulled off by MS, is a huge competitiveness factor that will affect highly consumer behaviour and positioning of windows phone in the global race for the unified pc/mobile OS, which in turn gets us to a mobile computer and "the internet of things".
Should MS make their unified OS stable and reasonable, I see a lot of potential added value, from single device use (no more mobiles vs laptops" to 1app for all to full usability of apps (eg office) in a mobile... considering the leading position in pc os that MS enjoys, I would say that this can be a huge blow on BlackBerry, since it would mean rapid adoption of Windows handsets in great numbers due to its added value, as well as attract lots of developers for the same reason.
What is your opinion in relation? Is BlackBerry now facing a huge giant and will have to diversify even more? Does the road become harder or it "will not matter"?
Cheers!
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