Edit; Blackberry as in the phone company/ OS. Not the fruit.
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Before the complete proliferation of smartphones, they used to be a thing that only high powered business/government people could afford and seen mostly as a productivity tool rather than a life partner. Many people didn’t even buy them outright and got them through their work. Blackberry was the most popular smartphone in this era, so it invested a lot in being business/government friendly. Businesses and especially governments often have strict security standards for all their electronic devices, and the makers of Blackberry (RIM) invested a lot in meeting those standards. Those investments continued to be relevant to some businesses and governments even after they lost most of their market share.
If you somehow bought a Blackberry today, it probably wouldn’t be much more secure than any other phone, but you would have a better ability to install security software/features on it if you worked in IT for the federal government or similar.
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