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BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory

Posted on the 22 January 2015 by Configcrazy @configcrazy

BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps MandatoryOriginally posted on TechCrunch:

At this point, BlackBerry and Windows Phone fans are probably used to having a much smaller selection of apps than their counterparts on iOS and Android smartphones. In fact, diehard devotees of BlackBerry and Windows Phone, which both lag dramatically behind Android and iOS in terms of market share, are probably so strongly attached to the operating systems that they don't mind their relatively small app ecosystems.

BlackBerry CEO John Chen, however, thinks this is unfair. In fact, he thinks it is so "discriminatory" that he wants legislators to widen the definition of net neutrality to include "application neutrality."

In other words, if a company makes an app for iOS and Android, they must also make a version for BlackBerry and all other operating systems.

In a blog post on BlackBerry's site that was adapted from a letter Chen sent to several members of Congress, Chen wrote "all wireless broadband...


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