BlackBerry Moving Toward Smartphone Profitability, CEO Says, Eyeing Connected Cars
BlackBerry’s QNX car infotainment platform gives the company “good leverage into the connected car opportunity,” CEO John Chen said on an earnings call. "We’ve built and operate a secure end-to-end system to deliver over-the-air software updates to cars,” Chen said:…
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QNX comes from BlackBerry technology for updating 50 million mobile phones in more than 100 countries, with "very notable industry players,” he said. BlackBerry continues to make “good progress on driving towards profitability” in its smartphone business, which is under the new Mobility Solutions sector, Chen said Thursday. New executive leadership in Mobility Solutions “will focus on a lean and agile development approach” toward the smartphone business, and on “opening up new distribution channels to augment the traditional carrier channels,” he said. The company has signed “new and more favorable agreements with manufacturing partners,” Chen said. BlackBerry was able to deliver its Android 6.0 Marshmallow release “on schedule,” he said: It’s also “the only vendor that has kept pace with Google in delivering timely Android security patches at the start of every month."