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And it might actually have been better had it been Blackberry 🤣
RIM bought out QNX around that time in an attempt to use it as base OS for their products, it's really cool IMO — a true microkernel OS. Unfortunately, most were too charmed by having apps that ran on Android and iOS so these products failed commercially.
Windows Phone — same, it was amazing, I had never expected Microsoft product to be this good, still failed. Now we only have Android and iOS — not much of a choice 😩