The embattled Canadian company recently put it foot
down and stood its ground when it shrugged off
attempts to buy it and replaced its CEO. Despite that, it
is still unclear what new direction the company will take
in order to maintain its relevance in the mobile market.

When asked whether the company will be making a
switch to Android, new CEO John Chen gave a rather
indirect answer that practically just says that it’s too
soon to make any public statement about it for which he
will be pulled out and shot.

It seems, however, that behind closed curtains,
BlackBerry is preparing its devices to be able to natively
run Android apps downloaded directly from Google Play
Store, in contrast to previously existing laborious
process of sideloading Android apps.

This compatibility
is rumored to arrive on the upcoming BlackBerry OS
version 10.2.1 which will be rolled out to a couple of
smartphones as well as the PlayBook tablet. These batch
of photos depict Android’s market app running on the
BlackBerry Z10.


http://infolodge.net/blog/blog/2013/11/11/leak-photos-google-play-store-included-blackberry-10-2-1-os/

Adapt, or die.