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432 million cell phones were sold in 2016. of that Blackberry sold 200k. Rather than outsourcing the hardware business they should outsource the executives including the CEO Chen.
When Chen took over his direction was always to drop hardware and move to a software company. Ignoring the market and competition like Apple and others caused the drop in sales and it looks like he finally won. Putting a few apps on cell phones wont keep Blackberry in business and unless by some miracle they develop a product only available on the outsourced blackberry phones and in todays world of hacking and viruses AND properly market it, it will be another flop.