Isn't it obvious? It's so they don't have to get screwed by Qualcomm by paying licensing royalties to technology owned by this and other evil foreign countries with possible eavesdropping backdoors.
Also, they can come up with their video drivers instead of being held hostage by companies like HTC/Qualcomm.
“We're grateful that RIM has finally decided to pay some attention to the sizable number of non-PC users that have been stuck with poor alternatives for way too long.”
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Isn't it obvious? It's so they don't have to get screwed by Qualcomm by paying licensing royalties to technology owned by this and other evil foreign countries with possible eavesdropping backdoors.
Also, they can come up with their video drivers instead of being held hostage by companies like HTC/Qualcomm.
It's true. For those painful losses in 2G era they are now working really hard to change this.
BTW HTC is from China.